HP Inc. (also known as HP and stylized as hp) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing solutions.
It was formed on November 1, 2015, renamed from the personal computer and printer divisions of the original Hewlett-Packard Company, with that company’s enterprise product and business services divisions becoming Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The split was structured so that Hewlett-Packard changed its name to HP Inc. and spun off Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a new publicly traded company. HP Inc. retains Hewlett-Packard’s pre-2015 stock price history and its former stock ticker symbol, HPQ, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise trades under its own symbol, HPE.
HP is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index. It is the world’s largest personal computer vendor by unit sales, having regained its position in 2017 since it was overtaken by Lenovo in 2013. HP ranked No. 58 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
The Xerox-HP takeover bid has been suspended due to the COVID-19 situation. Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) stock lost around 3% and today it is falling in the pre-market.
Xerox is not going to give up its attempts to combine with HP. Now it’s planning to try to replace the HP board of directors at the company’s stockholder’s meeting in April.
