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Thursday, January 29, 2015

EMC Reports Full-Year 2014 Financial Results, Record Fourth-Quarter Revenue

EMC Corporation today reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 financial results. Record fourth-quarter consolidated revenue was $7 billion, up 5% year over year. GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $1.15 billion, an increase of 12% compared with the year-ago quarter. GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.56 in the fourth quarter, up 17% year over year. Non-GAAP 1 net income attributable to EMC was $1.4 billion, an increase of 10% compared with the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP1 earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.69, up 15% compared with the year-ago quarter.

Full-year 2014 revenue was $24.4 billion, an increase of 5% year over year. GAAP net income attributable to EMC for 2014 was $2.7 billion, down 6% year over year, and GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $1.32, down 1% year over year. Non-GAAP2 net income attributable to EMC for 2014 was $3.9 billion, an increase of 1% year over year, and non-GAAP2earnings per weighted average diluted share was $1.90, an increase of 6% year over year.

For 2014, EMC generated $6.5 billion in operating cash flow and $5 billion in free cash flow3. The company closed 2014 with $14.7 billion in cash and investments. In the fourth quarter EMC repurchased approximately $1.6 billion worth of its common stock and returned approximately $240 million to shareholders via a quarterly dividend. Over the course of 2014 EMC returned $3.9 billion to shareholders through the repurchase of $3 billion worth of its common stock and approximately $900 million via quarterly dividends.

Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO, said, “EMC demonstrated solid performance in the fourth quarter and over the course of 2014. Our strategy is working well despite a challenging and rapidly changing IT environment. The company stands at the forefront of our industry with a leading portfolio of solutions and services to help customers optimize their existing infrastructures and build new ones that take advantage of opportunities created by cloud, mobile, social and Big Data. We enter 2015 financially strong and well positioned to continue capturing greater market share.”

Zane Rowe, EMC CFO, said, “EMC is establishing a solid foundation for the future, while also delivering near-term growth as we transform our business. Thanks to the unified team effort, in 2014 EMC grew revenue and EPS, gained share, increased our dividend and accelerated our buyback program – returning $3.9 billion to shareholders. Our strong operational results were impacted by currency fluctuations and EMC's investments in high-growth businesses. While we expect these factors to continue to impact 2015 results, we remain focused on driving growth for shareholders and delivering best-in-class solutions for customers.”

David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure, said, “In 2014 EMC II invested aggressively in key technology areas, innovated across all businesses, and continued to extend our lead in slower-growing but massive storage markets while making enormous strides in faster-growing areas like all-flash, where we are also the market segment leader. We delivered new and differentiated solutions, like the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution to help customers bring cloud agility and flexibility to existing applications and a platform for rapid deployment of new applications – a key differentiator for EMC. We also continued our leadership in converged infrastructure, helping customers transform their IT infrastructure by significantly reducing time to deploy and cost to manage new IT infrastructure. Collectively, this will serve us well in 2015 and ensure our continued lead in information infrastructure well into the future.”

To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2015/20150129-earnings.htm

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