What does the company do?
Hewlett-Packard Company is a provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including the public and education sectors. Its offerings span personal computing and other access devices; imaging and printing-related products and services; enterprise information technology infrastructure, including enterprise storage and server technology and software that optimizes business technology investments, and multi-vendor customer services, including technology support and maintenance, consulting and integration and outsourcing services, as well as application services and business process outsourcing. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008, its operations were organized into seven business segments: Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Services, HP Software, the Personal Systems Group, the Imaging and Printing Group, HP Financial Services and Corporate Investments.
How much does the company sell and earn?
Investors need to know how much stuff or services a company sells, and how much of that total it keeps as income (or profit) to grow its business or return to shareholders. The more of each, the better. In general, look for companies that sell and earn more than peers.
- Hewlett-Packard one-year sales: 117.21 Bil.
Difference from the average for the Diversified Computer Systems group: 19.60% - Hewlett-Packard one-year income: 7.32 Bil.
Difference from the average for the Diversified Computer Systems group: -26.52%| Sales & Income (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
|---|
| Sales | 117.21 Bil | 98.00 Bil | | Income | 7.32 Bil | 9.97 Bil |
How fast is the company growing?
- Hewlett-Packard one-year sales growth: -35.30%.
- Hewlett-Packard one-year income growth: -16.20%.
| Sales & Income Growth (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
|---|
| Sales Growth | -35.30% | 6.00% | | Income Growth | -16.20% | 29.10% |
How profitable is the company?
Investors prefer companies that increase profit margins -- the percentage of sales that they keep -- every year. This is accomplished either by lowering expenses or raising prices. Look for companies that consistently find ways to squeeze more profits out of sales than their peers.
- Hewlett-Packard one-year net profit margin: 6.3%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: 0.5 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Diversified Computer Systems group: -3.9 pct. pts.
| Net profit margins (%) |
|---|
| Company | 6.3% | | Company 5-Yr Avg. | 5.8% | | Industry | 10.2% |
How is the company's financial health?
The debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
- Hewlett-Packard debt/equity ratio: 0.41.
Difference from the average for the Diversified Computer Systems group: -57.73%.
| | Company | Industry |
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| Debt/equity ratio | 0.41 | 0.97 |
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