Hewlett-Packard beats by $0.06, beats on revs; guides Q2 EPS in-line (midpoint below); raises low end of FY14 EPS, in-line (30.19 +0.74)
Reports Q1 (Jan) adj. earnings of $0.90 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.06 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $0.84; revenues fell 0.7% year/year to $28.15 bln vs the $27.17 bln consensus. Personal Systems revenue was up 4% YoY with a 3.3% operating margin. Commercial revenue increased 8% and Consumer revenue declined 3%. Total units were up 6% with Desktops units down 3% and Notebooks units up 5%. Printing revenue was down 2% YoY with a 16.8% operating margin. Total hardware units were up 5% with Commercial hardware units up 6% and Consumer hardware units up 4%. Supplies revenue was down 3%. Enterprise Group revenue was up 1% YoY with a 14.4% operating margin. Industry Standard Servers revenue was up 6%, Storage revenue was flat, Business Critical Systems revenue was down 25%, Networking revenue was up 4% and Technology Services revenue was down 4%. Enterprise Services revenue was down 7% YoY with a 1% operating margin. Application and Business Services revenue was down 4%, and Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing revenue declined 9%. Software revenue was down 4% YoY with a 15.8% operating margin. Support revenue was down 2%, license revenue was down 6%, professional services revenue was down 12% and software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue was up 6%. HP Financial Services revenue was down 9% YoY with a 6% decrease in net portfolio assets and an 18% increase in financing volume. The business delivered an operating margin of 11.6%. Corporate Investments revenue increased due to the sale of a portfolio of mobile computing intellectual property. Asset management HP generated $3.0 billion in cash flow from operations in the first quarter, up 17% from the prior-year period. Inventory ended the quarter at $6.0 billion, down 1 day YoY to 25 days. Accounts receivable ended the quarter at $13.5 billion, down 2 days YoY at 43 days. Accounts payable ended the quarter at $12.6 billion, up 4 days YoY to 52 days. HP's dividend payment of $0.1452 per share in the first quarter resulted in cash usage of $278 million. HP also utilized $565 million of cash during the quarter to repurchase ~20.4 million shares of common stock in the open market. HP exited the quarter with $16.4 billion in gross cash. Co issues in-line guidance for Q2, sees adj. EPS of $0.85-0.89 vs. $0.89 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.
Co issues in-line guidance for FY14, raises adj. EPS to $3.60-3.75 (from $3.55-3.75) vs. $3.64 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.