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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

HPE
NYSETechnologyComputer HardwareCIK 0001645590hpe.comAbout HPE
Last close · Oct 16, 202655.13−3.50 (−5.97%)
Market cap$73.2B
Model value · EV/EBITDA · peers
57.64
Hewlett Packard Enterprise closed at $55.13 — undervalued by 4% vs model.
30.65the model's range84.64

EV/EBITDA · peers leads because DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y could not lead: the cash-flow gate is shut (an operating loss, or three years of free cash flow summing below zero); P/E · peers does not describe this kind of business. From its peers' median EV/EBITDA.

Other models
8.85 – 337.12
Wall St. target
71.00 22% below
Below model, 1y
5 of 20 days

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price $55.13 · as of Oct 17, 2026

EV/EBITDA · peers leads because DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y could not lead: the cash-flow gate is shut (an operating loss, or three years of free cash flow summing below zero); P/E · peers does not describe this kind of business. How we value a stock walks through every input.

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Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
1.03%
Past 2 years
low 0.78%high 4.16%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$0.48Sep ’21$0.48Sep ’22$0.48Sep ’23$0.52Sep ’24$0.52Sep ’25$0.57TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
109.1%
Raised
3 years in a row
Growth, 5 yrs
3.5% a year
Last change
+9.6% · Dec 2025
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $0.1425, paid Oct 16, 2026

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How it is valued

Valued asMature & Stable
Low/slowing growth (~8% recent)Thin margins (0.2% net margin)Highly cyclical earnings
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025
P/E
—
EV / EBITDA
34.2×
FCF yield
0.9%
Dividend yield, TTM
1.03%
Beta
1.40
Cost of capital (WACC)
8.87%
Full financials

Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
10-14Barclays · “Equal Weight” from “Overweight”downgrade
10-14Barclays · target77.00
10-02Daiwa Capital · “Outperform” from “Neutral”upgrade
10-02Susquehanna · target70.00
Ratings, targets and estimates

Comparable companies

by business, not by industry label
3 more companies list HPE as a comparable
Side by side:vs DELL

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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global technology firm that provides comprehensive solutions, empowering clients across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Japan to efficiently capture, analyze, and utilize their data. The company's diverse product range features adaptable servers for various computing demands, including general-purpose, workload-optimized, and specific lines like HPE ProLiant rack and tower servers, HPE BladeSystem, and HPE Synergy. HPE also offers a full suite of storage solutions, from traditional tape and storage networking to advanced disk products such as HPE Modular Storage Arrays and HPE XP. Additionally, its portfolio includes specialized high-performance computing (HPC) offerings like HPE Apollo and Cray, alongside critical infrastructure platforms such as HPE Superdome Flex, HPE Nonstop, HPE Integrity, and HPE Edgeline. Through its HPE Aruba division, HPE delivers extensive networking capabilities, encompassing wired and wireless local area network (LAN) hardware—including Wi-Fi access points, switches, routers, and sensors—and a range of software and services for cloud management, network access control, analytics, and location services. HPE further provides professional and support services, along with flexible as-a-service and consumption models for its intelligent edge products. To streamline technology acquisition and deployment, HPE offers various financial services, including leasing, financing, IT consumption programs, and asset management. These services enable customers to procure complete IT solutions, spanning hardware, software, and services, from both HPE and other providers. The company strategically invests in communications and media solutions and has a key partnership with Striim, Inc., to deliver high-performance, mission-critical solutions with real-time analytics. HPE serves a broad clientele, including commercial and large enterprise groups in both the business and public sectors, reaching them through an extensive network of partners such as resellers, distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs), and advisory firms. Established in 1939, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

CEO
Antonio Fabio Neri
Headquarters
Spring, TX
Employees
67,000
IPO
2015-10-19
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