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Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE: HPQ)
USA
Call it Hurd's Honeymoon. For years, the Silicon Valley giant struggled to find the synergies from its 2001 merger with Compaq Computer. But under new CEO Mark Hurd in 2006, HP reinforced its lead in printers and cranked up profits in PCs and high-end computers for the first time in years, even taking share from long-time nemesis Dell Inc. While sales grew only 7%, to $88.9 billion, Hurd managed to keep Wall Street focused on a big run-up in profits.
Company Info |
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| 2005 Rank | Not Ranked |
| Sales* ($ Millions) | 88,885.0 |
| Sales Growth (over prev. year) |
7 % |
| Profits* ($ Millions) | 3,615.0 |
| Return on Equity | 9.8 % |
| Total Return on Sales (12-mo.) | 45.5 |
| Share Price As of 5/31/06 | 32.38 |
| CURRENT MARKET INFO | NYSE: HPQ |
| No. of Employees | 150,000 |
| Industry | Computers & Peripherals |
| COMPANY WEB SITE > | |
*Trailing 12 months
Stock price data as of 5/31/06
DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat
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Company Snapshot
Hewlett-Packard provides products, technologies, solutions, and services to individual consumers, small and medium sized businesses, and large enterprises worldwide. The company provides industry standard servers and business critical servers. It also offers entry-level, mid-range, and enterprise arrays; storage area networks; network attached storage; storage management software; and virtualization technologies, as well as tape drives, tape libraries, and optical archival storage. In addition, Hewlett-Packard provides multi-vendor information technology (IT) services, such as technology services, consulting and integration, managed services, and other services. In addition, the company offers management software solutions that enable enterprise customers to manage their IT infrastructure, operations, applications, IT services, and business processes, as well as carrier-grade platforms for developing and deploying voice, data, and converged services to network and service providers. It offers commercial and consumer personal computers, workstations, handheld computing devices, digital entertainment systems, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services; inkjet printers, LaserJet printers, digital photography and entertainment, graphics, and imaging and printer supplies for printer hardware, printing supplies, and scanning devices; and network infrastructure products, including Ethernet switch products. Further, Hewlett-Packard provides financial life cycle management services. The company sells its products through retailers, distribution partners, independent distributors, original equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, and systems integrators. Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939 by William R. Hewlett and David Packard. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
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