Company Analysis

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE)

NYSE: HPE · Computer & office Equipment · Spring, TX · filing with the SEC since 2015
Grade4.7
◀ Past 3.9● Present 5.1▶ Future 5.0

The grade of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.7/10
◀ Past3.930% of the headline
● Present5.140% of the headline
▶ Future5.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2024-01-24.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 68 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a material cybersecurity incident (8-K item 1.05, the latest 2024-01-24) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+1.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $30 billion in fiscal 2016 to $34 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.4% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span1.4%bottom 28% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 47% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 46% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak12.5%top 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.1% a year. 24% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 33 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 57 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-31, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 24% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 33 sales (30 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-23 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 49% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.1/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 0%: 0¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 67%: owes 67¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 65 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-31, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company earned about 0 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 67 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 32% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 24% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 38% of 63 in its family; net margin 0.2%.

weight 33% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 63 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $34 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 0.2% ranks in the bottom 25%; revenue growth of 6.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 33% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$34.30Btop 6% of its family
  • net margin0.2%bottom 25% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth6.4%top 33% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 40% of 55 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2018.

weight 22% of this tense · 60th percentile among 55 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Neri, Antonio F (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-06-05, 8.4 years (top 19% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.2 years (top 27%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (bottom 27%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge14 in three years among 24 peoplebottom 27% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.2 yearstop 27% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record8.4 yearstop 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 48% of 63 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 63 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $5.8 billion against debt of $18 billion leaves -15.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.8% of revenue (bottom 28%); research spending of 7.3% of revenue (top 17%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-15.8%bottom 47% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue1.8%bottom 28% of its family
  • research spending against revenue7.3%top 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 64 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 64 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.4% a year over the last three filed years against 1.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew 13.8% (top 28%); research spending grew 7.2% a year (top 39%); capital spending grew -9.8% a year (bottom 26%) (its annual reports). Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Server at $18 billion (51%), Networking at $6.8 billion (20%), Hybrid Cloud at $5.5 billion (16%), and 2 more; 3 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+5.0 points a yeartop 23% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth13.8%top 28% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending7.2%top 39% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-9.8%bottom 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 33% of 62 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 62 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $34 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 10.7% above the $31 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 35% of its family); net income of $57 million against a prior three-year average of $1.8 billion (bottom 13%); a net margin of 0.2% against 6.2% before (bottom 20%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace10.7%top 35% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-97%bottom 13% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.0 pointsbottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HPE · research, not advice