Company Profile For Hewlett-Packard Company

Hewlett-Packard Company is a provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including the public and education sectors. Its offerings span personal computing and other access devices; imaging and printing-related products and services; enterprise information technology infrastructure, including enterprise storage and server technology and software that optimizes business technology investments, and multi-vendor customer services, including technology support and maintenance, consulting and integration and outsourcing services, as well as application services and business process outsourcing. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008, its operations were organized into seven business segments: Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Services, HP Software, the Personal Systems Group, the Imaging and Printing Group, HP Financial Services and Corporate Investments.

BRIEF: For the fiscal year ended 31 October 2009, Hewlett- Packard Company's revenues fell 3% to $114.55B. Net income decreased 8% to $7.66B. Revenues reflect a decrease in income from Personal Systems Group segment and lower revenue from HP Software segment. Net income also reflects an increase in amortization of purchased intangible assets, higher restructuring charges and the presence of interest and other, net.