Should You Hold or Retire HPE Stock After 27.7% Rise in 6 Months?

Should You Hold or Retire HPE Stock After 27.7% Rise in 6 Months?

By Subham Roy
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 13:23:00

Hewlett Packard Company HPE stock has gained 27.7% over the past six months, underperforming Zacks Computer – Embedded Systems, raising the question: Should investors accumulate HPE shares or book profits and exit the investment?

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From a valuation standpoint, HPE is trading with a forward price-to-sales ratio of 0.75, below the industry’s 4.91. Taking these valuation factors into account, let’s now look at the performance metrics of this stock.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is battling numerous headwinds despite strong revenue growth. HPE’s gross margins face a decline due to an unfavorable product mix in servers, networking and hybrid cloud offerings. Additionally, HPE is dealing with high-cost AI rack deployments and integration expenses from Juniper Networks.

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