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HP Inc.

HPQ · US · USD
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Market value28.47 bn USD
Industry per SECComputer & office Equipment
Price as of12 Oct 2026
Last financial year2025
Latest filing10-Q, 27 Aug 2026
Method version2.7.0
Years in the base11
Company quality, four grades from 0 to 5
Balance sheet2
Profitability2
Cash flow4
Growth0
Total points8 of 20
Share valuation, scored separately
Position in the rangeabove

The key figures

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All values from audited annual reports filed with the US regulator SEC. No value is estimated, none smoothed.

GradePointsBasis
Balance sheet2/5Net debt to operating income 1.4× · Current ratio 0.8
How this grade is built
Net debt to operating income1.4×4/51: ≤ 5.0×2: ≤ 4.0×3: ≤ 3.0×4: ≤ 2.0×5: ≤ 1.0×Next step: at most 1.0× for grade 5
Current ratio0.80/51: ≥ 0.82: ≥ 1.03: ≥ 1.34: ≥ 1.85: ≥ 2.5Next step: at least 0.8 for grade 1
Mean 4 + 0 / 2 = 2.00, rounded 2
Profitability2/5Operating margin 5.7% · Return on equity not reported
How this grade is built
Operating margin5.7%2/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 12.0%4: ≥ 20.0%5: ≥ 30.0%Next step: at least 12.0% for grade 3
Return on equitynot reported—1: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 10.0%4: ≥ 18.0%5: ≥ 25.0%
Mean 2 / 1 = 2.00, rounded 2
Cash flow4/5Free cash flow to revenue 5.1% · Profit covered by cash flow 1.1× · Free cash flow positive 5 of 5 years
How this grade is built
Free cash flow to revenue5.1%2/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 5.0%3: ≥ 10.0%4: ≥ 18.0%5: ≥ 25.0%Next step: at least 10.0% for grade 3
Profit covered by cash flow1.1×4/51: ≥ 0.4×2: ≥ 0.6×3: ≥ 0.8×4: ≥ 1.0×5: ≥ 1.2×Next step: at least 1.2× for grade 5
Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years5/51: 1 of 52: 2 of 53: 3 of 54: 4 of 55: 5 of 5
Mean 2 + 4 + 5 / 3 = 3.67, rounded 4
Growth0/5Revenue growth per year -0.5% · Operating income per year -1.6%
How this grade is built
Revenue growth per year-0.5%0/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 3.0%3: ≥ 8.0%4: ≥ 15.0%5: ≥ 25.0%Next step: at least 0.0% for grade 1
Operating income per year-1.6%0/51: ≥ 0.0%2: ≥ 3.0%3: ≥ 8.0%4: ≥ 15.0%5: ≥ 25.0%Next step: at least 0.0% for grade 1
Mean 0 + 0 / 2 = 0.00, rounded 0

Each grade is the rounded mean of two or three key figures, each placed on a five-step scale. Open the derivation under a grade to see, for every figure, the measured value, the step it reached and what the next step would have required.

The valuation range

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The range comes from this company's own history, not from a comparison with others. Price today 29.87 EUR, range 21.61 to 28.75 EUR. The price sits above the upper edge of its own valuation range. The middle of the range sits 15.7% below today's price. Reliability: robust, from 5 methods.

MethodTodaySeriesYears
Price to earnings11,32016–202510
Price to revenue0,52016–202510
Price to free cash flow10,22016–202510
Enterprise value to revenue0,62016–202510
Enterprise value to operating profit10,82016–202510

Open each method to see the arithmetic year by year.

Price to earnings
YearPriceBasisMultiple
201614,491,4310,1
201721,551,4814,6
201824,143,267,4
201917,372,078,4
202017,961,989,1
202130,335,365,7
202227,622,989,3
202326,333,268,1
202435,522,8112,6
202527,672,6510,4
heute29,872,6511,3
Price to revenue
YearPriceBasisMultiple
201614,4927,680,5
201721,5530,590,7
201824,1435,780,7
201917,3738,550,5
202017,9639,890,5
202130,3352,020,6
202227,6259,910,5
202326,3353,720,5
202435,5254,150,7
202527,6758,020,5
heute29,8758,020,5
Price to free cash flow
YearPriceBasisMultiple
201614,491,6179,0
201721,551,92411,2
201824,142,4379,9
201917,372,6146,6
202017,962,6316,8
202130,334,7766,4
202227,623,5227,8
202326,332,9788,8
202435,523,19211,1
202527,672,9389,4
heute29,872,93810,2
Enterprise value to revenue
YearPriceBasisMultiple
201614,4948.238,000,5
201721,5552.056,000,7
201824,1458.472,000,7
201917,3758.756,000,5
202017,9656.638,000,5
202130,3363.460,000,6
202227,6262.910,000,6
202326,3353.718,000,6
202435,5253.559,000,8
202527,6755.295,000,6
heute29,8755.295,000,6
Enterprise value to operating profit
YearPriceBasisMultiple
201614,493.549,007,3
201721,553.368,0010,8
201824,143.831,0010,3
201917,373.877,007,0
202017,963.442,007,7
202130,335.359,007,4
202227,624.559,008,1
202326,333.456,009,4
202435,523.818,0010,9
202527,673.174,0010,2
heute29,873.174,0010,8

Price divided by basis gives the multiple. Every row can be recomputed; if a row does not add up, this page is not built at all.

Within the sector

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Rank 3 of 3 in the industry. No median: only 3 companies in this industry have a grade; it is shown from five upwards. The grades are absolute and are not normalised to the sector: in a weak industry a weak grade stays weak.

one place above
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co
HPE
8/20

The neighbours follow from the ranking alone, not from a judgement. More total points does not mean a company is the better investment, only that more quality rules are met. It says nothing about the price.

The series of figures

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Every figure comes from the annual report of that year and has not been revised afterwards. Amounts in USD.

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YearRevenueOperating profitFree cash flowEarnings per shareSharesNet debt
201551.46 bn3.92 bn3.42 bn2.481.84 bn-8.56 bn
201648.24 bn3.55 bn2.82 bn1.431.74 bn525.00 m
201752.06 bn3.37 bn3.27 bn1.481.70 bn-327.00 m
201858.47 bn3.83 bn3.98 bn3.261.63 bn110.00 m
201958.76 bn3.88 bn3.98 bn2.071.52 bn600.00 m
202056.64 bn3.44 bn3.74 bn1.981.42 bn1.08 bn
202163.46 bn5.36 bn5.83 bn5.361.22 bn2.75 bn
202262.91 bn4.56 bn3.70 bn2.981.05 bn7.82 bn
202353.72 bn3.46 bn2.98 bn3.261.00 bn6.33 bn
202453.56 bn3.82 bn3.16 bn2.81989.00 m6.38 bn
202555.30 bn3.17 bn2.80 bn2.65953.00 m5.92 bn

How durable the advantage is

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4 of 8 points, measured over 10 years (2016 to 2025). Classification: present.

FeaturePointsBasis
Return on capital, level1/3The company earns on average 10.6% of its assets per year as operating profit, measured over 10 years. Comparable companies are around 10%.
Return on capital, consistency1/36 of 10 years above 10%. Consistency is the real evidence, because anyone has one good year. No longer reached recently (2024: 9.6%, 2025: 7.6%), hence reduced: the protection has to hold today, not once in the past.
Pricing power—/2Gross profit is not reported separately in the filing.
Stability in a downturn2/2Operating margin averaging 7%. Tested in 2020 and 2022: 2020 6%, 2022 7%. Holding counts from two thirds of the company's own average.

What is measured is the trace of a moat: a durably high return on capital and margins that survive a downturn. The causes (switching costs, network effects, brand, licences, economies of scale) appear in no filing and are not claimed here.

Next figures

Expected on 2 Feb 2027 (estimated from the rhythm of earlier filings, ± 21 days). Grades can change after a report; the page is then rebuilt.

Required disclosures for this analysis

Produced byFlorian Maier
Completed on14.10.2026 03:58
Price as of12 Oct 2026
Latest filing10-Q, 27 Aug 2026
Method version2.7.0
Time horizonThe grades describe a state that can change with every annual report, so roughly quarterly. The historical analysis is computed over 36 months.
Own positionNot disclosed individually, see the risk notice.
Earlier analysesThe list of all analyses of this company from the past twelve months will appear once twelve months of analyses exist. This run is the start of the series.

This is not investment advice. Limits of the method, assumptions and conflicts of interest: risk notice.