Hewlett Packard Enterprise deserves a higher stock price, even though its growth is not near Dell's. Per @Brian14168136, the stock is still very cheap and would be about $100 at Dell's multiple. x.com
David Prince
US Equity/Options Fund Manager, Mentor at T3 Live
Hewlett Packard Enterprise should get dual boosts from ANT and NVIDIA data-center buildouts. It has the lowest PEG and strongest year-over-year growth in the communications space. It is time to buy again, with the low 80s as the target. x.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's raised guidance lifts out-year estimates, not just sentiment, which may set up a multi-quarter estimate-revision story. Fiscal Q3 was a record beat at about $12.21B revenue, with FY26 guidance raised and FY27 EPS growth lifted to 16–20% from 12–16% on accelerating AI orders and Juniper synergies. Analysts, Citi among them, upgraded on AI backlog outpacing supply. The stock is at a low-teens forward P/E; risks are dilutive AI server margins and a 120% run priced in. … Show more
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's 30% jump looks like dot-com bubble behavior, since the stock trades at about -250 times earnings. Even after a strong earnings report it remains a poor-quality company; Dell and Cisco earned their multiple expansion with great fundamentals and undervaluation. A post the author replies to argues HPE, which sells servers and networking, is a laggard rerating toward the leaders. x.com x.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise could make a Dell-like move to $55 if it shows how its record backlog converts to revenue. The April quarter brought $10.68B of revenue, up 40% and $880M above the guidance midpoint, with non-GAAP EPS of $0.79 versus $0.51-0.55 guided. Server growth was mostly price-driven, and management expects backlog to grow further exiting FY26 but gave no conversion timeline. Networking rose 148% reported, about 10% normalized; the test is whether its margins hold. x.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's real story is networking, which the market is not giving nearly enough credit at the current valuation. With Juniper, HPE challenges Ciena and Cisco in optical networking and Arista in AI fabric; Juniper's optical, routing and Mist AI tech completes a stack from AI servers to interconnects, driving margin expansion from the low-20% range and a re-rating toward a networking power. Integration speed and margin resilience are the real upside trigger beyond AI demand. … Show more
Dell and HPE are priced on an AI-server story rather than their businesses. Like HP Inc., which just posted weak results on rising memory costs and thinner PC margins, they are cyclical hardware companies dependent on enterprise capex, yet their shares diverged only because of the AI-server label. Data center demand is real, but the premium has run far ahead of it. Such pricing can last long in a liquid, risk-on market, as in 1999 and 2021, so a drop is not imminent. x.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a reasonably priced execution story, less levered to memory prices and gross AI spending. Juniper is showing early revenue synergies and some hidden product wins, gross margins look healthy and expanding, and the valuation is in the dirt versus Dell. A flurry of positive Iran headlines from Trump could also lift the whole market. x.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise looks cheap at $69.33 on next year's earnings, trading at 15 times forward earnings versus the roughly 18 times its industry usually gets. Applying 18 times next year's expected $4.70 a share puts fair value at about $74.44 to $94.74. That leans on the forecast, which is 142% above trailing earnings, where the stock trades at 36 times. The read is valuation levels only, without fundamental work. x.com
Hardware vendors like HPE, HP and Logitech are now challenged as Micron locks more DRAM volume into strategic customer agreements rather than spot, since enterprises have less reason to pull in purchases when pricing is more certain. Supply-chain complexity winners like Dell are probably less advantaged too. The shift favors semicap names like Applied Materials and ASML if growth comes from bits rather than price, earns Micron a higher multiple for trading price for duration, and aids buyers. … Show more
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an AI infrastructure and networking play with a strong cup-and-handle chart now pressing against its $64 breakout level. Last quarter, Cloud and AI revenue grew 25% and data-center networking revenue rose 112%. x.com