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--FILE--Laptop computers of Lenovo are for sale at a store in Shanghai, China, 22 January 2014.
A decade after Lenovo Group Ltd. bought International Business Machines Corp.’s personal-computer unit, shares of the Chinese company are up about 300 percent while ‘’Big Blue’s have lagged behind the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The CHART OF THE DAY tracks Lenovo, IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and the S&P 500 starting from Dec. 8, 2004, when the $1.25 billion deal was announced. IBM’s 67 percent gain through this Dec. 10 trailed the U.S. stock benchmark’s 72 percent increase and HP’s 77 percent. Shares of Dell, the largest PC maker 10 years ago, had tumbled by two-thirds before founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management took it private in a $24.9 billion leveraged buyout in 2013. ‘’Low-cost, scale manufacturing plus PC focus was an advantage for Lenovo over U.S. counterparts,’’ said Stephen Yang, head of institutional research at Sun Hung Kai Financial Ltd. in Hong Kong. ‘’Preferred PC vendor status by government and institutions in China provided Lenovo a stable base to be more aggressive in other countries.’’ Lenovo has consistently led HP since 2013 as the biggest PC maker, according to research firm Gartner Inc. The 2004 deal, which included IBM’s ThinkPad brand, vaulted the Chinese company from eighth at the time to third. Lenovo’s rally defied what Michael Dell told reporters the day the deal was unveiled.
