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    How HPE’s Portfolio Streamlining and Networking Push Will Impact Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Investors

    Simply Wall St·12/25/2025 05:32:02
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    • In recent months, Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported a record fiscal Q4 with higher long-term earnings and free cash flow guidance, closed its Juniper Networks acquisition, divested its Telco-Solutions unit to HCLTech for US$160,000,000, and confirmed plans to sell its remaining H3C stake for about US$1.40 billion to cut leverage.
    • Together with a new Chunghwa Telecom disaster recovery partnership in Taiwan, these moves underline HPE’s push toward higher-margin networking, sovereign AI, and private-cloud solutions while simplifying its portfolio and balance sheet.
    • We’ll now examine how HPE’s portfolio streamlining, especially the Telco-Solutions divestiture, reshapes its investment narrative around higher-margin technology.

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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Hewlett Packard Enterprise, you need to believe its shift toward higher-margin networking, AI infrastructure and hybrid cloud can offset pressure on traditional hardware and help restore consistent profitability. The latest quarterly results and guidance reset do not fundamentally change that near term, but they keep integration execution and debt reduction as key short term catalysts, while the risk of Juniper integration missteps and leverage targets slipping remains central to the story.

    The planned sale of HPE’s remaining 19 percent H3C stake for about US$1.40 billion stands out here, because it directly addresses balance sheet risk after the Juniper acquisition. If the proceeds are effectively used to cut net leverage as guided, that could support HPE’s capacity to keep investing in networking and AI centric offerings without stretching its financial flexibility around the integration period.

    Yet even with these moves, investors should be aware that integration risk around Juniper and the timing of expected cost synergies could still...

    Read the full narrative on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (it's free!)

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise's narrative projects $44.4 billion revenue and $2.7 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 10.3% yearly revenue growth and a $1.6 billion earnings increase from $1.1 billion today.

    Uncover how Hewlett Packard Enterprise's forecasts yield a $26.28 fair value, a 8% upside to its current price.

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    Five members of the Simply Wall St Community see HPE’s fair value between US$17.90 and US$35.37, underscoring how far opinions can spread. You can weigh those views against the company’s heightened execution risk around integrating Juniper and decide which scenarios you find more plausible for HPE’s future performance.

    Explore 5 other fair value estimates on Hewlett Packard Enterprise - why the stock might be worth as much as 45% more than the current price!

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