Hewlett Packard Enterprise 10-Q 2026-01-31

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

The number of shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company common stock outstanding as of March 3, 2026 was 1,326,854,089 shares, par value $0.01.

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HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

Form 10-Q

For the Quarterly Period Ended January 31, 2026

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Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise indicates, all references in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to “HPE,” or “the Company” mean Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and its consolidated subsidiaries.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Item 2 of Part I, contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks or uncertainties ever materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and its consolidated subsidiaries (“Hewlett Packard Enterprise”) may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. The words “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “guide”, “optimistic”, “intend”, “aim”, “will”, “estimates”, “may”, “likely”, “could”, “should” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to any statements regarding the ongoing integration of Juniper Networks, Inc., and any projections, estimates, or expectations of savings or synergy realizations in connection therewith; any projections, estimations, or expectations of addressable markets and their sizes, revenue (including annualized revenue run-rate), margins, expenses (including stock-based compensation expenses), investments, effective tax rates, interest rates, the impact of tax law changes and related guidance and regulations, the impact of changes in trade policies and restrictions and the uncertainty created thereby, component costs, commodity shortage, net earnings, net earnings per share, cash flows, liquidity and capital resources, inventory, goodwill, impairment charges, hedges and derivatives and related offsets, order backlog, benefit plan funding, deferred tax assets, share repurchases, currency exchange rates, repayments of debts including our asset-backed debt securities, or other financial items; recent amendments to accounting guidance and any potential impacts on our financial reporting therefrom; any projections or estimations of orders; any projections of the amount, timing, or impact of cost saving actions and anticipated benefits to be realized if any; any statements of the plans, strategies, and objectives of management for future operations, as well as the execution and consummation of corporate transactions or contemplated acquisitions and dispositions (including but not limited to the disposition of shares of H3C Technologies Co., Limited (“H3C”) and the receipt of proceeds therefrom), research and development expenditures, and any resulting benefits, cost savings, charges, or revenue or profitability improvements; any statements concerning the expected development, performance, market share, or competitive performance relating to products or services; any statements concerning technological and market trends, the pace of technological innovation, and adoption of new technologies, including artificial intelligence-related and other products and services offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise; any statements regarding current or future macroeconomic trends or events and the impacts of those trends and events on Hewlett Packard Enterprise and our financial performance, including but not limited to supply chain dynamics (including but not limited to worldwide memory component shortages), uncertain global trade policies and/or restrictions, and demand for our products and services, and our actions to mitigate such impacts to our business; the scope and duration of geopolitical tensions, including but not limited to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, instability and conflicts in the Middle East, and the relationship between China and the U.S., and our actions in response thereto, and their impacts on our business, operations, liquidity and capital resources, employees, customers, partners, supply chain, financial results, and the world economy; any statements regarding future regulatory trends and the resulting legal and reputational exposure, including but not limited to those relating to environmental, social, governance, cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence issues, among others; any statements regarding pending litigation, investigations, claims, or disputes, including but not limited to the legal proceedings relating to the acquisition of Juniper Networks; any statements of expectation or belief, including those relating to future guidance and the financial performance of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties, and assumptions include the need to address the many challenges facing Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s businesses; the competitive pressures faced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s businesses; risks associated with executing Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s strategy; the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events, including but not limited to those mentioned above; the need to effectively manage third-party suppliers and distribute Hewlett Packard Enterprise's products and services; the protection of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's intellectual property assets, including intellectual property licensed from third parties and intellectual property shared with its former parent; risks associated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's international operations (including from geopolitical events and macroeconomic uncertainties); the development of and transition to new products and services and the enhancement of existing products and services to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s ongoing transformation and mix shift of its portfolio of offerings; the execution and performance of contracts by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its suppliers, customers, clients, and partners, including any impact thereon resulting from macroeconomic or geopolitical events, including inflation and rising commodity costs; the prospect of a shutdown of the U.S. federal government; the hiring and retention of key employees; the execution, integration, consummation, and other risks associated with business combination, disposition, and investment transactions, including but not limited to the risks associated with the disposition of H3C shares and the receipt of proceeds therefrom and successful integration of Juniper Networks, Inc., including our ability to integrate and implement our plans and forecasts and realize our anticipated financial and operational benefits with respect to the consolidated business; the execution, timing, and results of any cost reduction actions, including estimates and assumptions related to the costs and anticipated benefits of implementing such actions; the impact of changes to privacy, cybersecurity, environmental, global trade, and other governmental regulations; changes in our product, lease, intellectual property, or real

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estate portfolio; the payment or non-payment of a dividend for any period; the efficacy of using non-GAAP, rather than GAAP, financial measures in business projections and planning; the judgments required in connection with determining certain financial metrics; utility of segment realignments; allowances for recovery of receivables and warranty obligations; provisions for, and resolution of, pending litigation investigations, claims, and disputes; the impacts of tax law changes and related guidance or regulations; and other risks that are described herein, including but not limited to the items discussed in “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2025 and that are otherwise described or updated from time to time in Hewlett Packard Enterprise's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and in other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hewlett Packard Enterprise assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

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HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings

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HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

For purposes of this Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) section, we use the terms “Hewlett Packard Enterprise”, “HPE”, the “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our” to refer to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

We intend the discussion of our financial condition and results of operations that follows to provide information that will assist the reader in understanding our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, changes in certain key items in these financial statements from period-to-period and the primary factors that accounted for these changes, as well as how certain accounting principles, policies, and estimates affect our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. This discussion should be read in conjunction with our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes that appear elsewhere in this document.

The financial discussion and analysis in the following MD&A compares the three months ended January 31, 2026 to the comparable prior-year period and where appropriate, as of January 31, 2026, unless otherwise noted.

This MD&A is organized as follows:

• Trends and Uncertainties. A discussion of material events and uncertainties known to management, such as the mixed macroeconomic environment and heightening global trade restrictions, uneven demand across our portfolio, increased demand for and adoption of new technologies, supply chain constraints and related cost increases for certain components, increased inventory levels, conservative customer spending environment (though recovering), persistent inflation, foreign exchange pressures, recent tax developments, and competitive pricing pressures.

• Executive Overview. A discussion of our business and a summary of our financial performance and other highlights, including non-GAAP financial measures, affecting the Company in order to provide context to the remainder of the MD&A.

• Results of Operations. A discussion of the results of operations at the consolidated level is followed by a discussion of the results of operations at the segment level.

• Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates. A discussion of accounting policies and estimates that we believe are important to understanding the assumptions and judgments incorporated in our reported financial results.

• Liquidity and Capital Resources. An analysis of changes in our cash flows, financial condition, liquidity, and cash requirements and commitments.

*•*GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliations. Each non-GAAP financial measure has been reconciled to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. This section also includes a discussion of the use, usefulness and economic substance of the non-GAAP financial measures, along with a discussion of material limitations, and compensation for those limitations, associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures.

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HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

Management's Discussion and Analysis of

Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Continued)

TRENDS AND UNCERTAINTIES

During the first three months of fiscal 2026, the effects of the evolving macroeconomic environment on demand persisted and certain significant developments impacted our operations, as follows:

Technological Advancements: We have observed market trends and demand (of customers of various segments and sizes) gravitating towards AI, hybrid cloud, edge computing, data security capabilities, and related offerings. The volume of data at the edge continues to grow, driven by the proliferation of more devices. As a result, the need for a unified cloud experience everywhere has grown, in order to manage the growth of data at the edge. Increasing demand for AI is also contributing to changes in the competitive landscape. With the abundance of data, there are opportunities to develop AI tools with powerful computational abilities to extract insights and value from the captured data. Secure networking that is purpose-built for AI workloads is the foundation that enables users to seamlessly connect and apply AI learnings to such data that lives in various ecosystems. While we believe our recent acquisition of Juniper Networks positions us to capitalize on the growing market opportunities across AI-accelerated computing, data, cloud and networking, our major competitors and emerging competitors are expanding their product and service offerings with integrated products and solutions and exerting increased competitive pressure. We expect these market dynamics and trends to continue in the longer term.

Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The evolving macroeconomic environment has impacted industry-wide demand, as customers have been taking longer to work through prior orders and continue to adopt a more strategic approach to discretionary IT spending. While this dynamic has been easing, it has resulted in uneven demand across our portfolio and geographies, particularly for certain of our hardware offerings, as customers have focused investments on modernizing infrastructure, such as migrating to cloud-based offerings. Additionally, there continues to be significant uncertainty surrounding the tariff environment and import/export regulations due to numerous factors, including but not limited to tariff imposition delays, changes to tariff rates and policies, and enactment of reciprocally restrictive trade policies and measures around the world. These have enhanced global trade uncertainty and contributed to higher prices of components and end products and services. While we have sought to mitigate these adverse impacts by relying on our global supply chain and implementing pricing measures, we expect the current macroeconomic environment to continue with the potential to impact revenue and margin growth in the near term.

Supply Chain: We experienced supply chain constraints for certain components, including graphics processing units (“GPUs”), accelerated processing units, solid-state drives (“SSDs”), and other memory components. We are affected by the worldwide shortage in memory components that began to impact the semiconductor industry in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 primarily due to the accelerating growth in AI usage and the related rapid expansion in AI data centers and compute refresh cycles. In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, we experienced supply chain constraints due to these component shortages and expect such dynamics to continue in the medium term as memory supply constraints may continue until memory vendors transition greater production allocations towards high performance memory components required by AI. The future remains uncertain due to the macroeconomic uncertainty and dynamics discussed above, which have thus far impacted our ability to import and export components and finished products and increased our costs. Additionally, logistics costs have been, and may continue to remain, high due to changes in trade policies and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties. We have experienced higher-than-normal inventory levels, primarily due to frequent component part updates, customers transitioning to the next generation of GPUs, our efforts to secure supply ahead of demand, and longer customer acceptance timelines on AI-related orders. In addition, our current efforts to secure memory components and SSDs to meet forecasted demand may further increase our inventory levels in the medium term. While we have been working to reduce inventory, any or all of the aforementioned factors could contribute to sustained higher-than-normal levels and further uncertainty. We have experienced, and expect to continue experiencing, rising input component costs due to various factors, including but not limited to global trade uncertainties and the competitive pricing environment, all of which may impac

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For quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk affecting HPE, see “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” in Item 7A of Part II of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2025. There have been no material changes in our market risk exposures since October 31, 2025.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act as of the end of the period covered by this report (the “Evaluation Date”). Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded as of the Evaluation Date that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective such that the information related to the Company, including our consolidated subsidiaries, required to be disclosed in our SEC reports (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to the Company's management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes to our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended January 31, 2026, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. We are currently in the process of integrating Juniper, Inc’s operations, processes and information systems into our systems and control environment. We believe that we have taken the necessary steps to monitor and maintain appropriate internal controls over financial reporting during this integration.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 14, “Litigation, Contingencies, and Commitments”.

Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal period ended October 31, 2025, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, and the trading price of our common stock, including certain risks.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

There were no unregistered sales of equity securities during the period covered by this report.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

As of January 31, 2026, the Company had a remaining authorization of approximately $3.4 billion for future share repurchases.

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Trading Plans

During the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2026, the following trading plans were adopted or terminated by our directors or officers, as applicable:

(1) Each trading arrangement marked as a “Rule 10b5-1 Trading Arrangement” is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c), as amended (the “Rule”).

(2) Each trading arrangement marked as a “Rule 10b5-1 Trading Arrangement” only permits transactions after the indicated duration start date and, in any case, upon expiration of the applicable mandatory cooling-off period under the Rule, and until the earlier of the indicated duration end date or completion of all sales contemplated in the Rule 10b5-1 Trading Arrangement.

The Exhibit Index beginning on page 58 of this report sets forth a list of exhibits.

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The registrant agrees to furnish to the Commission supplementally upon request a copy of any instrument with respect to long-term debt not filed herewith as to which the total amount of securities authorized thereunder does not exceed 10% of the total assets of the registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 10, 2026