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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE NYSE· Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals

Last close · Oct 26, 2026

$58.72

KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise had $34.3B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 13.8% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +4.9% a year on average.
  • Its operating margin was −1.3%, down 8.5 pts: of every 100 in sales, about −1 is left after running the business.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise made $57.0M of net profit in fiscal 2025.
  • Free cash flow was $627M in fiscal 2025, 1.8% of revenue.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise returned $886M to shareholders in fiscal 2025, 141% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 1.0%.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise owes $20.6B more than it holds in cash, about 9.0 years of operating profit.

Market cap

$85.1B

P/E

30.4x

Revenue

$34.3B

Net income

$57.0M

Free cash flow

$627M

Operating margin

−1.3%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025

Good

Are sales growing?

+13.8%

Yes. Sales grew 13.8% last year.

So-so

Does it make a profit?

0.2%

A little. It keeps 0.2% of every sale as profit.

So-so

Does profit turn into cash?

1.8%

Partly. 1.8% of sales ends up as free cash.

Weak

Is debt under control?

9.0x

Heavy. Repaying its debt would take 9.0 years of operating profit.

So-so

How healthy are the accounts?

4 / 8

Mixed. It passes 4 of 8 health tests.

For information

How is the share priced?

30.4x

One share costs 30.4 times its yearly profit per share. Typical for its sector: 33.5x.

What Hewlett Packard Enterprise does

Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells computing, networking and cloud technology to businesses and governments, from small companies to large global enterprises. Its products include servers, networking equipment, and software and services for running data and artificial intelligence workloads across company data centers, the edge and the cloud. It reports five segments: Server, Hybrid Cloud, Networking, Financial Services, and Corporate Investments and Other. The Server segment sells general-purpose servers and systems for high-performance computing and AI. Financial Services offers customers financing for technology purchases. In fiscal 2025 its server and networking products were the product categories that each brought in more than a tenth of net revenue. HPE says one distributor accounted for about a tenth of its revenue in fiscal 2025, mainly in Server and Networking.

Biggest risks, in its own words

  • Intense competition in the technology industry that could hurt its sales and margins.
  • Long sales cycles and large orders that make quarterly revenue swing widely.
  • Supply chain problems that make planning and inventory harder to manage.
  • Not achieving the expected benefits of its cost reduction actions.
Fiscal year ends
October 31, 2025
Latest annual report
10-K · Dec 18, 2025
Legal name
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY
CIK
0001645590
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Results and finances

The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.

Fiscal yearFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Sales and profit
Revenue $27.8B $28.5B $29.1B $30.1B $34.3B
Revenue growth 3.0% 2.6% 2.2% 3.4% 13.8%
Operating margin 4.1% 2.7% 7.2% 7.3% −1.3%
Net income $3.4B $868M $2.0B $2.6B $57.0M
Net margin 12.3% 3.1% 7.0% 8.6% 0.2%
Diluted EPS $2.58 $0.66 $1.54 $1.93 −$0.04
Cash
Cash from operations $5.9B $4.6B $4.4B $4.3B $2.9B
Capital expenditure $2.5B $3.1B $2.8B $2.4B $2.3B
Free cash flow $3.4B $1.5B $1.6B $2.0B $627M
FCF margin 12.1% 5.2% 5.5% 6.6% 1.8%
Dividends paid $625M $621M $619M $676M $684M
Share buybacks $213M $512M $421M $150M $202M
Share count change 2.8% −0.6% −0.5% 1.6% −1.0%
Debt and strength
Cash and short-term investments $4.0B $4.2B $4.3B $14.8B $5.8B
Debt incl. finance leases $16.1B $16.6B $16.6B $22.4B $26.4B
Shareholders' equity $20.0B $19.9B $21.2B $24.8B $24.7B
Net debt / EBITDA 3.2x 3.8x 2.6x 1.6x 9.0x
Current ratio 0.9x 0.9x 0.9x 1.3x 1.0x
Interest coverage 2.3x 1.7x 3.0x 2.8x −0.4x
Returns and quality
Return on capital 3.5% 2.4% 5.8% 5.8% −0.9%
Return on equity 19.0% 4.4% 9.9% 11.2% 0.2%
Piotroski F-score 6 4 6 6 4
Altman Z'' 0.2 0.0 0.3 1.4 0.4

Insiders bought, 12 months

$0.0M

0 insiders

Insiders sold, 12 months

$73.1M

12 insiders

Of sales under plans

96%

$70.3M

How to read these numbers

Revenue:
Total sales reported in the income statement.
Operating margin:
Operating income as a share of revenue.
Net income:
Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
Free cash flow:
Cash from operations minus capital spending.
Net debt / EBITDA:
Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
Return on capital:
After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison

Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.

Revenue

Net income

Margins, % of revenue

Gross Operating Net

Cash vs debt (incl. leases)

Cash Debt

Free cash flow

Dividends and buybacks

Dividends Buybacks

Similar companies

Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.

CompanyMarket capGrowthOp. marginFCF marginROICP/EF-score
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE $85.1B 13.8% −1.3% 1.8% −0.9% 30.4x 4
Supermicro SMCI $22.8B 77.8% 7.1% −17.9% — — —
HP HPQ $31.6B 3.2% 5.7% 5.1% 55.3% 13.1x 6
Sandisk SNDK $194.6B 175.3% 61.2% 56.8% 105.9% — 7
Western Digital WDC $136.8B 35.7% 34.5% 27.2% 52.2% 13.8x 7

Price compared with profit (P/E)

How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise 30.4x
Similar companies 13.1x
Sector 33.5x

KIRA

At $58.72 a share, the company is worth $85.1B: 30.4 times its earnings of the last four quarters.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise grew sales faster than 1 of its 4 similar companies. Its P/E is higher than 2 of 2.

Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001645590). Data updated October 9, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.