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IT SERVICES
Analysis of Hewlett Packard Services
(HPS) Fourth Quarter Results
Strong Finish Not Enough
HP Stock Gives Up Its Earnings Announcement Gains
PHOENIX,
November 20
– Hewlett Packard (HP) ended its fiscal year 2003 with a bang.
Revenues grew in double digits (up 10% to $20 billion), while
earnings more than doubled in its fourth quarter ($862 million vs. $390
million in FY02). Both
figures exceeded Wall Street’s expectations.
No wonder the HP shares rose 2.4% in
after-hours trading that followed the earnings announcement. They had also jumped nearly three points earlier the same day
(November 19).
But that’s all she wrote. For, the following day (November 20), the HP stock dropped to $21.59 - below the level it had traded before the earnings release.
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Balanced Performance
Services. Hewlett Packard Services (HPS), for example, grew its revenues by 5%, both sequentially and over the last 12 months. The $3.23 billion fourth quarter revenue was also its best during the current fiscal year.
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Hardware. Among the HP hardware units, as usual, the Imaging and Printing group was the best performer. Its fiscal year 2003 revenues grew by 11% to $22.6 billion, while its operating profit jumped to $3.6 billion, for a 15.8% operating margin.
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The PC unit also eked out a small profit in
the fourth quarter ($21 million), following a $56 million loss in the
previous three-month period. This
means that for the full year, the HP PC unit has earned $19 million –
for a 0.09% operating margin.
Even such minuscule margin, of course, beats
the losses that the Big Blue PC unit keeps piling on nearly every quarter
on revenues half the HP PC’s size.
Makes you wonder why some of these companies stay in the PC business, doesn’t it? Probably because somebody has to… (besides Dell, of course). Or does it?
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