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Hewelett – Packard Company & Subsidiaries

Hewelett – Packard Company & Subsidiaries


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section I
Introduction
Company Profile……………………………….. 5
Board Members……..…………………………… 8
History …………… ………………………………… 9
Section II
Strategic Analysis
Industry Challenges……………………………… 11
Lines of Business ………………………………… 13
Sales, Marketing & Distribution……………………… 13
SWOT Analysis..……………………………………… 13
Competition..……………………………………… 13

Section III
Core Analysis
Short Term Analysis…………………………………… 15
Long Term Liquidity……..…………………………. 18
Profitability Analysis..………………………………… 21
Asset Efficiency……..………………………………… 21
Cash Flow Analysis…..………………………………… 21
Section IV
Summary & Conclusion………………………………. 26
Section V
Appendix: Financial Statements……………………..…. 28

Section I: Introduction

HP Profile:
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to individual consumers and businesses. HP offerings span information technology (‘‘IT'') infrastructure and storage, personal computing and other access devices, multi-vendor services including maintenance, consulting and integration and outsourcing, and imaging and printing. HP products and services are available worldwide.
HP is a company unlike any other. They serve everyone from consumers to small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises to public sector customers with an extensive portfolio of market-leading solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of each customer segment.
HP annual R&D investment of $3.5 billion (USD) fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies. HP produces an average of 11 patents a day worldwide. HP Labs provides a central research function for the company, which is focused on inventing new technologies to improve their customers' lives, change markets and create business opportunities.
Millions of people around the world use HP technology every day due to the fact that HP is:
• The largest consumer IT...