HPQHP Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.7×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is HPQ?
HP Inc. earns 52% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 43 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.5%
Operating margin · Computer Hardware median 0.31% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.65×
Cash conversion · 1.18× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −2.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.1% |
| FY2021 | 8.4% |
| FY2022 | 7.2% |
| FY2023 | 6.4% |
| FY2024 | 7.1% |
| FY2025 | 5.7% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 20%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 5.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 4.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 6.6%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 2.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $59.2B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.88B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $2.45B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 52%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Computer Hardware
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