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HP should start reinvesting in technology or buying key companies. Logmein seems to fit perfectly with their PC business and is a must have for their fledgling tablet entry...might be too late by the time it is available.
The board of directors at IT giant Hewlett-Packard think that HP's stock is undervalued and that the company needs to bolster the earnings per share that the company will report in future quarters. Thus the board has given CEO Leo Apotheker an additional $10bn in funny money to send in truckloads encrypted packets down to Wall …
"The share repurchases were also designed to counteract the dilution caused by shares issued under employee stock plans "
Disingenous in the extreme.
I don''t know any HP staff who have bought Shares under the new Employee Stock Plan - it was a pathetic 5% discount.
Ah, hang on, I do know a few "employees" who have bought "Shares", here they are:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=HPQ
:-))
Maybe I missed it, but do we have a standard Reg unit of corprorate excess/stupidity? Counting in Larrys where one Larry = 1 Ellison yatch @ $200m-a-pop might give too many large numbers of Larrys (and the idea of multiple Larrys would probably make most readers' skins crawl!).
/Discuss.