September 13, 2017

For today's bulletin, we take a look at Hewlett Packard Inc. $HPQ. We also provide a link to download a FREE STOCK REPORT on the company

VALUATION: Overvalued stocks now make up 53.03% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 19.46% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Thirteen sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

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ValuEngine Rates Hewlett Packard A STRONG BUY

HP Inc. (HPQ) is the surviving entity following the November 2015 split of Hewlett-Packard Company into publicly traded entities - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and HP Inc. The company's focus will be on the PC and printing products and services. HP Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Keep in mind that today we are discussing HP Inc, this is the company most people think of when they think "Hewlett Packard" because this is the entity that is responsible for PCs, printers, and other similar items. The "other" HP is Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Hewlett Packard Enterprise handles data centers, software, and IT services for corporate clients.

The company split up after the disaster that was the reign of former CEO--and recent US presidential candidate-- Carly Fiorina. Fiorina wrecked one of the premiere tech pioneers of Silicon Valley in little more than five years. She was responsible for a variety of disastrous decisions including purchasing COMPAQ, firing @30,000 workers, and other missteps. It took a full on revolt from the founders' heirs to finally remove her.

Of course, as is too often the case in modern-day America, for her "success" Fiorina was rewarded with a $20 million golden parachute package. Now, the company is on the mend--indeed, once Fiorina was fired the stock popped 10% in response.

When the companies were split up, most analysts expected HP Inc. to fade. Perhaps not immediately, but surely a focus on PCs and printers, items which are more like a commodity than a high-value item (unless you are Apple), would not be very "sexy" and would have more mundane profits.

HP Enterprise, on the other hand, was supposed to be the "golden child." It's focus on high-value items like data centers and services would boost their bottom line. So, this was the portion of HP that attracted all the "smart" money and analysis.

But, over the past year we have seen a reversal here. HP Inc. is the company with the good results and the attention. HP Enterprise is having a hard time in the cloud, and sales goal and projections and not being met. Meanwhile, HP Inc. has posted good numbers and has been rewarded by analysts and investors. Their efforts to expand their 3D printing business show promise--and profits--and changes to how they handle ink supplies for more standard printers have also paid off. They have also focused on more powerful--and profitable--computers for higher-end business clients and thus also boosted their bottom line.

ValuEngine continues its STRONG BUY recommendation on HP Inc. for 2017-09-11. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that HP Inc. has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size and P/E Ratio.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on HP Inc.(HPQ) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
	Target Price*	Expected Return
1-Month	19.56	1.23%
3-Month	19.78	2.37%
6-Month	20.43	5.74%
1-Year	22.18	14.82%
2-Year	24.53	26.97%
3-Year	25.88	33.96%

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	19.51% overvalued	Valuation Rank(?)	20
1-M Forecast Return	1.23%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	100
12-M Return	33.33%	Momentum Rank(?)	81
Sharpe Ratio	0.05	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	52
5-Y Avg Annual Return	2.45%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	54
Volatility	46.85%	Volatility Rank(?)	35
Expected EPS Growth	7.52%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	34
Market Cap (billions)	35.31	Size Rank	96
Trailing P/E Ratio	12.10	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	87
Forward P/E Ratio	11.25	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	78
PEG Ratio	1.61	PEG Ratio Rank	29
Price/Sales	0.70	Price/Sales Rank(?)	78
Market/Book	n/a	Market/Book Rank(?)	n/a
Beta	2.12	Beta Rank	11
Alpha	0.01	Alpha Rank	60

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