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Stuart Hinshelwood
Hewlett-Packard Co
HPQ-N
DON'T BUY
Sep 19, 2013
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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This has been a complete turnaround story. Trading at 6X forward earnings. They really need to show execution. There is limited revenue growth, limited sales growth and they are trying to chop expenses of the bottom line. He questions if they really change themselves from a traditional hardware business, which is under a lot of pressure, to something that looks more like a software business. Software is only about 5% of revenue and it is going to be very difficult for them to turn this ship around.