Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the corporate hardware and enterprise software business of Hewlett-Packard Co, reported a 10.4 percent fall in revenue, largely due to sluggish demand for its servers and storage equipment. Also, earnings increased from the year-ago figure of 36 cents per share. This is the fifth quarter result since the split of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) from Hewlett Packard (HP).
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Revenue from its enterprise group, the company’s biggest and which offers servers, storage and networking services, fell almost 12 percent to $6.32 billion in the quarter. The firm has institutional ownership of 67%, while insider ownership included 2.50%. The last session’s volume of 2.61 million shares was higher than its average volume of 2.30 million shares.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the corporate enterprise software and hardware business for Hewlett-Packard lowered its profit forecast for the full year as the business is facing intense competition in cloud related business as well as struggling with a US dollar that remains strong. The stock’s price moved up its 200-day moving average of $202.11. The firm has a market cap of $40.62 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.41 and a beta of 3.05.
The enterprise computing and services company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 45 cents a share in the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, up from 41 cents a year ago.
While HPE reduced its full-year earnings per share estimate by 12 cents, which Sacconaghi called conservative, adjusted earnings did come in slightly better-than-expected for the quarter. The average revenue estimate for the year ending December 2017 is $83.89B by 27 analysts. The revenue of the company went down by 10% if we compare to the same quarter a year back. Therefore, it expects revenues to increase 4.2-7.6% YoY to $2.38-2.45 billion during the current quarter.
For fiscal 2017, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise estimates GAAP diluted net EPS to be in the range of $0.60 to $0.70 and non-GAAP diluted net EPS to be in the range of $1.88 to $1.98. This represents a $0.26 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.05%.
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