HPQ Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (HP | NYSE:HPQ)

HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard) is a behemoth in the PC and printing markets. It has focused on these markets since it exited IT infrastructure in 2015 with the split from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP focuses on the commercial market, but maintains sales of consumer devices and printers. The firm has a broad and global customer base, with only one third of sales coming from the US. HP completely outsources manufacturing and relies heavily on channel partners for its sales and marketing.

HP trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HPQ.

As of November 8, 2024, HPQ stock price declined to $37.18 with 121,781 million shares trading.

HPQ has a beta of 0.93, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HPQ has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HPQ has a market cap of $35.82 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter HP reported $14 billion in Revenue and $.83 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $139 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.03.

In the last 3 years, HPQ traded as high as $41.47 and as low as $24.08.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HPQ belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, COWZ, SPY.

HPQ has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +40.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +38.2%. In the last 3 month period, HPQ beat the market returning +17.0%, while SPY returned +15.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks HPQ has underperformed the stock market by returning +1.9%, while SPY returned +3.0%.

HPQ support price is $36.76 and resistance is $37.92 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HPQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.