HPE Earnings: CEO Talks Q4 Results, Higher Costs

HPE Earnings: CEO Talks Q4 Results, Higher Costs

By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2025-12-05 21:26:00

00:00 brian

Tell two stories for HPE Earnings Day. On the one hand, revenue for the quarter was a little light compared to estimates, but I’d say the earnings call went very well. Let’s bring in HPE CEO Antonio Neri. Good to see you Antonio, as always. Look, walk us through the revenue shortfall because initially I think that’s where the market was focused. What happened there?

00:30 Antonio Neri

Well, Brian, thanks for having me. We had another strong performance in the fourth quarter, capping a very strong FY25 and our quarter was marked by record profitable growth where we saw revenue increase 14% year over year, perhaps at the low end of our guidance, but our operating profits increased 26% year over year, so they grew faster than revenue. And then we delivered record operating margin performance of 12.2% and that combined allows us to outperform our diluted power per share gap by 2 cents at the midpoint. and most importantly, beat our free cash…