Wells Fargo Sticks to Its Hold Rating for HP (HPQ)


In a report issued on November 24, Aaron Rakers from Wells Fargo maintained a Hold rating on HP (HPQ). The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $22.25, close to its 52-week high of $23.93.

According to TipRanks.com, Rakers is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 23.6% and a 69.1% success rate. Rakers covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Advanced Micro Devices, CommVault Systems, and Seagate Tech.

HP has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $23.11, which is a 1.0% upside from current levels. In a report released yesterday, Morgan Stanley also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $26.00 price target.

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Based on HP’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending July 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $14.29 billion and net profit of $734 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $14.6 billion and had a net profit of $1.18 billion.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 37 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of HPQ in relation to earlier this year.

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HP Inc. enages in the provision of personal computing and other access devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies, solutions, and services. It operates through following business segments: Personal Systems, Printing, and Corporate Investments. The Personal Systems segment offers commercial and consumer desktop and notebook personal computers, workstations, thin clients, commercial tablets and mobility devices, retail point-of-sale systems, displays and other related accessories, software, support and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The Printing segment gives consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, solutions and services,and scanning devices. The Corporate Investments segment includes HP Labs and certain business incubation projects. The company was founded by William R. Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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