Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ)

Downthumb. Low growth rate. Slipping margins.

Businesses have slow down/stop buying computer equipments. Will not look pretty for the next few years.

not all that good products compaired to others.

Too large to keep up w/ small faster growing compaines

It is going to be a tough holiday season which will cause HP to slash their already thin profit margins.

PCs are the wave of the past. Overvalued, supply costs going up as inflation sets in - Killer combo with thin margins.

Tech rally about to fizzle.

Tied to consumer spending

HP ate EDS to make a stronger HP, but instead it become a stronger EDS. HP takes over the stock profile of EDS, which is generally more lackluster than HP's... more information in the HPQ forum.

HP has truly lost its shine. What was once a world-class technology company has now become an assembler and seller of cheaply-made PC's and printers.

HP is a conglomerate that once housed the best minds of Agilent, Dynec, Apollo, Convex, Tandem, EDS, and DEC (along with many who moved on to other companies, like Apple) yet most of the "blue" talent fled when the "red" Compaq people came in. Now HP's reputation for quality has dissolved along with the "ewlett and" "ackard" portions of its name.

Anything of value outside the desktop computer/printer/storage/consulting space has been sold off or killed, and what remains is being made on the cheap. That leaves HP in the same boat as Dell and Acer/Gateway, companies forced to lower their profit margins and quality year after year while chasing each other to attract more of the computer market's lowest-common-denominator customers. The commoditization of the computer industry is squeezing this company, but HP is as guilty as anyone for causing that commoditization to happen in the first place.

goodbye circuit city.
acer netbook is cheaper.
long term good.
short term bad.
get back in under $30.

The reverse Cramer effect!

Hey lets just FIRE a bunch of workers, that

way we could inrease our earnings

for the quarter. WOW, what a

great company.

Fools! This stock is WAY Overpriced

and will GO to under $10.

SELL it or pay the price.

11/24/08, 5:00 PM Intel warning, BBY warning, slowing printer sales, competition rising, ridiculous earnings projections for 2009. Are the analysts smoking weed? wtf? Ridiculous.

quality issues will catch up with these guys

HPQ's growth is without side-effects, the trade-off has now come to haunt HPQ:

* reckless acquisiton of EDS for $13,000,000,000 to compete with IBM is going to lay-off 24,600 employees. Thus further decreasing growth, worst if those talent relocates to HPQ competitors even exponentially further decreasing growth.

H-P’s Printing Flaw

blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/10/27/h-ps-printing-flaw/?mod=yahoo_hs

* Unbalanced distribution of R&D funds. Focussing too much on IT and losing Netbook market to ACER and ASUS.

Acer gains on netbooks, HP keeps global PC lead

ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/rb/081014/business_us_gartner_pc_sales.html?.v=1

* To make matters worse DELL with 13.6 percent market share has announced there new services & products date, while HPQ with soft 18.4 percent lead hasn't.

Dell to Introduce New Desktop Solutions and Services During Interactive Webcast

biz.yahoo.com/bw/081027/20081027006447.html?.v=1

The first question is, will businesses throw away Acer, Canon, Dell, Epson, IBM, Lenovo, Lexmark, Samsung, Xerox, and etc. for HP'S?

The second question is, will staff/employees give up on Acer, Canon, Dell, Epson, IBM, Lenovo, Lexmark, Samsung, Xerox, and etc. for HP'S?

The third question is will the COO (Chief Of Operations) set aside the budget to replace Acer, Canon, Dell, Epson, IBM, Lenovo, Lexmark, Samsung, Xerox, and etc. for HP'S and training?

During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007), its operations were organized into seven business segments: Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), HP Services (HPS), HP Software, the Personal Systems Group (PSG), the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), HP Financial Services (HPFS) and Corporate Investments.

-Hewlett Packard has grown too large and possibly peaked between $45.00USD to $49.00USD.

-Hewlett Packard has grown too large to rule efficiently. Examples are Chinese Dynasies, Mongolian Empire, Roman Empire and etc.

-Hewlett Packard is over diversified in too many segments, which in the Mutual Fund Industry terms means lack lustre returns on investment.

GAINS LEAD OVER IBM IN SERVERS

EDS is crap, and H-P is overpaying