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5/24/2013, 8:01 PM ET

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Thursday, May 23, 2:57 PM Even as H-P (HPQ +15.6%) shares enjoy another big rally in the wake of last night’s quarterly results, Topeka Capital's Brian White sees only a "sugar high... not a sustainable trend." While the upside excites bulls in the short-term, the fact remains that H-P’s profits and sales have dropped for seven quarters in a row, he says, maintaining his Sell rating and $12 price target. 9 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, May 23, 12:45 PM Midday top 10 gainers: ESMC +52%. HIHO +43%. CNIT +23%. RUE +23%. GAME +16%. HPQ +14%. JRJC +13%. PTIX +13%. HSOL +13%. CHYR +13%.
Midday top 10 Losers: RVM -22%. APRI -21%. CRUS -17%. BOSC -15%. NSPR -15%. MTEX -12%. SHIP -11%. IX -10%. EDMC -10%. AERL -10%. 1 Comment [On the Move]
Thursday, May 23, 11:11 AM The broad selloff isn't touching H-P (HPQ +14.2%) following last night's earnings. Jefferies' Peter Misek weighs in with an upgrade from Sell to Hold. He praises H-P for having the discipline to sacrifice PC market share to retain profitability (unlike DELL; Whitman (transcript): "Maybe that's what you do when you're about to go private.") Misek also likes the cash flow guidance of $7.5B - "(it) materially changed our view of H-P margin, cash flow, and EPS prospects." 2 Comments [Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, May 23, 9:12 AM Premarket gainers: RUE +24%. PSUN +11%. HPQ +10%. VVTV +7%.
Losers: STP -12%. CLNT -11%. NMR -9%. JRCC -9%. MTU -8%. SAAS -8%. DRYS -8%. SOL -8%. SMFG -7%. NBG -7%. SNE -6%. TSL -6%. RSOL -6%. WETF -5%. Comment! [On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 6:37 PM In its earnings call today, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman remarked that its position in the PC market has been boosted by recent efforts to sell tablets powered by Google's (GOOG) Android, thus allowing it to compete in tablets again after discontinuing its Palm/webOS TouchPad in 2011. "If we have the right product and the right price, the channel still loves H-P and they want to sell our products," Whitman said. "Frankly, having Android products helps a lot." (Webcast) Shares +13.3% AH. 3 Comments [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 5:48 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:30 p.m.: PSUN +17.8%. HPQ +13.8%. NCS +7.6%. RTIX +5.8%. AMAG +5.6%.
After-hours top losers: VICL -3.2%. CST -2.8%. SYPR -2.4%. HUM -1.8%. NG -1.8%. Comment! [On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 4:20 PM More on Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) FQ2 earnings: FY2013 EPS guidance is upped to $3.50-$3.60 from $3.40-$3.60 previously. Operating margin of 8.6%, up from 7.9% in FQ1, down from 8.9% a year ago. PC sales down 20% Y/Y. Printers -1%. Enterprise hardware -10%. Services -8%. Software -3%. CC at 5 ET. Shares +12% AH. (PR) 11 Comments [Earnings, Tech, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 4:05 PM Hewlett-Packard (HPQ): Q1 EPS of $0.87 beats by $0.05. Revenue of $27.6B misses by $0.52B. Shares +6.2% AH. Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech, On the Move]
Wednesday, May 22, 12:51 PM Avoid names with hefty PC, server, or printer exposure, says Goldman, lowering its 2013 PC shipment forecast to -6.8% from -3.8% and - pointing at DELL's earnings - warning pockets of price aggression at OEMs could spread. Making the list are sell-rated: HPQ, LXK, and QLGC. H-P reports after the bell. 5 Comments [Tech]
Wednesday, May 22, 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Wednesday’s close: DRYS, EGHT, GAME, HPQ , LTD, PETM, PSUN, SNPS, VVTV, WDAY 3 Comments [Earnings]
Tuesday, May 21, 5:35 PM Notable earnings after Wednesday ’s close: DRYS, EGHT, GAME, HPQ , LTD, PETM, PSUN, SNPS, VVTV, WDAY Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, May 21, 11:09 AM H-P's (HPQ) Vertica analytics database unit, acquired in 2011 and generally seen as an M&A bright spot for a company that hasn't had many lately, has been hit with a slew of major defections. Two top engineers and a pre-sales/services VP jumped ship last month, and one ex-employee claims about half of the 127 Vertica employees around at acquisition time have left. Vertica, whose offerings complement Autonomy's enterprise search/analytics software, faces competition from EMC's Pivotal spinoff (via Greenplum), IBM's Netezza unit, Teradata's Aster unit, and others. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, May 16, 1:28 PM SAP (SAP -1.3%) makes a flurry of announcements during its Sapphire Now conference. 1) H-P (HPQ) is offering new AppSystems (prepackaged hardware/software) for SAP apps running on its Hana in-memory database. H-P and SAP are also working on Project Kraken, a server able to run Hana with 3x more memory than normal. 2) Hana has been updated to better support the Hadoop big data framework and other diverse data sources, and to include geospatial data. 3) SAP is launching Fiori, a group of "simple, easy-to-use" apps handling basic SAP software functions. 4) SAP's cloud apps, including SuccessFactors and Ariba's, have been updated. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, May 16, 12:16 PM Cisco JV partner EMC (EMC +4.5%) joins the list of companies rallying in response to Cisco's FQ3 beat and guidance. Cisco mentioned on its earnings call integrated hardware solutions such as Vblock (offered by the Cisco/EMC VCE JV) are driving demand for its UCS servers - Cisco's UCS unit saw 77% Y/Y rev. growth. All in all, it's a good day for enterprise IT names, who are happy to receive some good earnings news after getting plenty of bad news (I, II, III, IV). HPQ +1.7%. IBM +1.3%. ORCL +1.3%. VMW +2.6%. TIBX +4.1%. CTXS +3.9%. CRM +3.8%. JIVE +4.1%. NTGR +2.7%. CVLT +2.6%. INFA +3%. (others rallying: I, II) 1 Comment [Tech, On the Move]
Monday, May 13, 11:46 AM H-P (HPQ -1.2%) offered to sell its Autonomy unit to SAP at some point before last month, but the German software giant wasn't interested, co-CEO Bill McDermott tells The Times. Odds are the offer price was well below the $11.1B H-P paid in 2011 for the enterprise search/analytics software vendor, the subject of a giant write-down, shareholder lawsuits, fraud investigations, plunging license sales, massive employee turnover, and other woe. Meg Whitman was saying all the right things about supporting Autonomy last month. Update: H-P responds by stating it has "no interest in selling Autonomy," and that SAP is the one that made inquiries about software asset sales (with H-P turning them down). 1 Comment [Tech, M&A]
Monday, May 13, 1:36 AM Plenty of companies are taking aim at Cisco's (CSCO) Nexus data center switch business. 1) H-P (HPQ) has updated its networking lineup to include a "virtual router" running on commodity hardware, to offload tasks handled by server virtualization software (Cisco also supports this), and to embrace software-defined networking. 2) Startup Arista has launched a high-density switch that (aided by FNSR optics) can handle 96 100G or 1152 10G ports in an 8-slot chassis. 3) Huawei has launched 16-slot switches that can handle 192 10G ports, and can be clustered. 4) Facebook's Open Compute Project is now working on a data center switch meant to handle virtually any software. Cisco is hoping to return fire via its Insieme unit (I, II). Comment! [Tech]

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