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The company increased adjusted earnings guidance for the year by 2 cents to a range of $4.09 to $4.18 vs. the $4.11 modeled by Wall Street. It also announced plans to buy back $1.2 billion worth of shares in fiscal 2016, “in light of the depressed valuation” of the stock, reported William Blair analyst Jason Ader in a Wednesday research note. Shares had fallen 32% for the past 12 months as of Tuesday’s close.

Majority owner EMC (EMC), meanwhile, was cisco 640-911 exam 640-911 exam dumps up nearly 3% in midday trading Wednesday after it reported Q1 revenue grew 5% to $1.59 billion, ahead of Wall Street consensus by $14 million, while non-GAAP EPS flattened to 86 cents, 2 cents better than analysts had expected 640-911 exam.

640-911 exam pdf EMC is in the process of being acquired by privately held Dell.

VMware’s virtualization software lets users see and manipulate multiple operating systems simultaneously from one computer.

William Blair’s Ader noted that VMware’s traditional license revenue of $572 million in Q1 was up 1% in constant currency, although it fell 1% after foreign-exchange effects. VMWare’s growth was in the cloud, its multiyear strategic destination.

“Q1 was a good start to 2016,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said in the company’s earnings release. “We made solid progress with our strategic goal of building momentum for our new growth businesses and in the cloud. We continue to see momentum across our portfolio of growth products and businesses, including NSX, Virtual SAN and End-User Computing.”

This is positive news to EMC shareholders since Dell's parent company, Denali Holdings is offering them $24.05 in cash. VMware will benefit from this since reacquiring its stock will allow the company to lower the number of shares outstanding for sale, likely boosting its market value, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Based in Palo Alto, VMware provides 640-911 exam questions virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions in the United States and internationally.

Separately, TheStreet Ratings currently has a "Hold" rating on the stock with a letter grade of C.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year.

Recently, TheStreet Ratings objectively rated this stock according to its "risk-adjusted" total return prospect over a 12-month investment horizon. Not based on the news in any given day, the rating may differ from Jim Cramer's view or that of this articles's author.

Repurchase slated to start after EMC shareholder vote in May.

VMware stock price got a bit of a reprieve Tuesday after the company announced plans for a $1.2 billion share buyback on its first-quarter earnings call Tuesday night. Shares were up nearly 10%, or $5.24 to $56.69, at one point in after-hours trading.

That’s good news after months of downward trajectory in the wake of last October’s news that Dell is buying VMware parent company EMC EMC 3.21% . On October 9, 2015, the Friday before the Dell-EMC deal was announced, VMware was trading at nearly $80 per share. It hasn’t reached those heights since.

Many VMware VMW 13.74% shareholders felt that Michael Dell, in buying EMC, was getting VMware at a bargain basement price.

The stock repurchase is expected to take place after the EMC shareholder vote on the Dell deal, slated for May 12. By taking shares out of circulation, VMware hopes to increase their value.

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In the months since the Dell deal was made public, VMware and EMC have announced layoffs and other cost-cutting measures.

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Also on the call, VMware chief executive 640-911 exam Pat Gelsinger said the company’s cloud deal with IBM, which makes it easy for customers to take applications running on VMware vSphere in-house and run them in IBM’s IBM 1.47% Softlayer cloud (which is running VMware technology), is already gaining traction.

“We believe that IBM has already closed a number of deals,” Gelsinger said. IBM brings a “tremendous pipeline of opportunity.” As reported by Fortune, IBM wasn’t the only company wanting a cloud alliance with VMware. Google GOOG -0.20% hoped to cement its ties with VMware with a similar deal, which did not happen.

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