Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, embattled IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HPQ 0.69%) has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Hewlett-Packard and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Hewlett-Packard facts
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Headquarters (founded) |
Palo Alto, Calif. (1939) |
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Market Cap |
$28.2 billion |
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Industry |
Computer hardware |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$120.4 billion |
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Management |
CEO Margaret Whitman (since 2011) CFO Catherine Lesjak (since 2007) |
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Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) |
(0.6%) |
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Cash/Debt |
$11.3 billion / $28.4 billion |
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Dividend Yield |
3.7% |
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Competitors |
Accenture (ACN 0.28%) Dell (DELL.DL) IBM (IBM 0.06%) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 10% of the 3,846 members who have rated Hewlett-Packard believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, JohnStuartMill, succinctly summed up the Hewlett-Packard bear case for our community:
PCs are a dead industry and the [Hewlett-Packards] and [Dells] of the world are behemoths which just aren't nimble enough to create fast enough or take enough risk for a big reward. Even Lenovo has seemed to have taken over as the best stock for the PC industry. [Hewlett-Packard] is at its stage in a stocks life of just buying companies and integrating them in order to keep the semblance of growth.
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