HPQ
HP INCEvidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · HP INC
HP Inc. provides personal computing and other access devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies, solutions, and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Personal Systems, Printing, and Corporate Investments. The Personal Systems segment offers commercial and consumer desktops and notebooks, workstations, commercial mobility devices, thin cli…
Management team
- Ms. Carol A. Surface Ph.D. · Chief People OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Timothy J. Brown · Head of Print FinanceFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. David McQuarrie · Chief Commercial OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Alexander K. Cho · President of Personal SystemsFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+0.3 of a possible +2; confidence high). Reported revenues were $ 14,438,000,000 for the quarter ended 2026-01-31 (reported as fiscal Q1 2026), $ 14,408,000,000 for the quarter ended 2026-04-30 (reported as fiscal Q2 2026) and $ 15,677,000,000 for the quarter ended 2026-07-31 (reported as fiscal Q3 2026). Gross profit and margins across those same reported quarters were $ 2,833,500,000 (≈ 19.6% margin), $ 3,013,600,000 (≈ 20.9% margin) and $ 2,945,000,000 (≈ 18.8% margin).
Net income (loss) and diluted EPS for the three reported quarters were $ 545,000,000 / $ 0.58, $ 450,000,000 / $ 0.49 and $ 661,000,000 / $ 0.71 respectively. Cash and cash equivalents rose across the reported points from $ 3,153,400,000 to $ 3,703,000,000 and then to $ 4,169,000,000, long‑term debt showed a decline to $ 7,868,000,000 at the most recent point, and stockholders’ equity remained negative at each reported date but improved from -$ 901,000,000 toward -$ 92,000,000. Valuation metrics in the packet show a trailing PE of 12.4 and EV/EBITDA of 9.04 while trailing twelve‑month free cash flow is negative $ 23,000,000.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenues were $14,438,000,000 for the quarter 2026-01-31 (fiscal Q1 2026, 2025-11-01 to 2026-01-31, 3mo), $14,408,000,000 for the quarter 2026-04-30 (fiscal Q2 2026, 2026-02-01 to 2026-04-30, 3mo) and $15,677,000,000 for the quarter 2026-07-31 (fiscal Q3 2026, 2026-05-01 to 2026-07-31, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000047217-26-000011Gross profit was $2,833,500,000 for the quarter 2026-01-31 (fiscal Q1 2026), $3,013,600,000 for the quarter 2026-04-30 (fiscal Q2 2026) and $2,945,000,000 for the quarter 2026-07-31 (fiscal Q3 2026); expressed as gross margin these are approximately 19.6% (Q1), 20.9% (Q2) and 18.8% (Q3) using each quarter's revenues.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000047217-26-000011Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
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No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.
Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
HPQ is a constituent of the ETF with ticker IVV with a reported weight of 0.03% of that fund as of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00.
ETF constituents · market dataThe provided ownership evidence contains one ETF membership record and does not include other ETF or insider Form 4 data.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline on 2 September 2026 reports HP expanded its HyperX gaming portfolio with its first open-back gaming headset as part of a broader peripherals refresh.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-02A 2 September 2026 headline notes HP Inc.'s stock reached a new 52-week high on that day.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-09-02Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
HP INC's price-to-earnings (PE, trailing twelve months) is 12.4 as of the price date 2026-09-02.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeEnterprise value to EBITDA (EV/EBITDA, trailing twelve months) is 9.04 based on an enterprise value of 34,402,293,098 and EBITDA of 3,804,000,000.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several company-filed fundamentals and recent market-data points jointly support a favorable read. Revenues trended upward across the last three fiscal quarters, and net income and diluted EPS improved in the most recent quarter, while share repurchases materially reduced outstanding shares—evidence of earnings per‑share leverage. Cash and cash equivalents rose quarter-over-quarter and a point-in-time long-term debt balance declined in the most recent period, while common valuation multiples (TTM P/E 12.4, EV/EBITDA ~9.0) sit at moderate levels relative to many peers. Negative FCF and historical negative shareholders’ equity are present in the record, but the FCF shortfall is small on a TTM basis and equity has steadily moved toward zero, which together lessen the severity of those negatives in the provided evidence.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.32
22 surviving claims rest on 12 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 32% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate number of distinct sources but a relatively large bundle of surviving claims, with a single analyst accounting for about a third of those claims and every point the desk raised surviving internal debate. That combination means the read is informative but somewhat brittle: it carries concentrated analyst influence and limited cross-source redundancy, so new primary filings or a material third-party disclosure could materially change how much weight to place on these specific surviving claims.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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What this was built from
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10 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.6 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
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