Dell closes worst week since 2018, down 23%, as Silver Lake insider sales surface (Oct 17)
What happened
Dell Technologies shares fell 4.6% Friday to $451.71, closing out a 23% weekly loss — the stock's worst week since it relaunched on public markets in 2018, per the Wall Street Journal. The selloff caps a three-day rout triggered by Barclays' midweek downgrade questioning whether enterprise AI demand is real or just memory-price inflation. Separately, SEC filings disclosed that Silver Lake-affiliated directors sold Dell shares on October 9, including a 48,654-share sale (~$28.3M at $582.30) that cut one position by 55.7%, plus a 44,408-share sale (~$25.9M) cutting another position by 50.4%. Even after the week's damage, Dell remains up roughly 270% year-to-date.
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- DELL (Dell Technologies) — directly hit; closed Friday at $451.71, down 4.6% on the day and 23% on the week
- HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) — downgraded alongside Dell by Barclays; fell 6.5% Thursday, down 14%+ over two days
- AI hardware peers (NVDA, CRWV, MU, AMD, MRVL, SMCI) — caught in the same AI-infrastructure de-rating; CoreWeave fell 25% on the week, Micron 15%, AMD 13%