Posts record quarterly revenue and gross profit; raises FY26 guidance

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2025-- HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended October 31, 2025.

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“HPE finished a transformative year with a strong fourth quarter of profitable growth and disciplined execution,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. “During the year, we completed the Juniper Networks acquisition, further scaled our AI and Cloud businesses, and accelerated innovation across our portfolio, giving HPE momentum to advance our strategic priorities in fiscal 2026.”

“HPE continued to drive operational discipline in Q4, resulting in record gross profit and robust non-GAAP operating profit as well as free cash flow generation that exceeded our outlook,” said Marie Myers, executive vice president and CFO of HPE. “Our focus on disciplined spending, portfolio simplification, and ongoing structural cost management initiatives gives us the confidence to raise our FY26 diluted net earnings per share guidance and the midpoint of our FY26 free cash flow guidance.”

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Results

• Revenue: $9.7 billion, up 14% from the prior-year period in actual dollars and in constant currency⁽¹⁾
• Annualized revenue run-rate (“ARR”) ⁽²⁾: $3.2 billion, up 63% from the prior-year period in actual dollars and 62% in constant currency⁽¹⁾
• Gross margins:
  • GAAP of 33.5%, up 270 basis points from the prior-year period and up 430 basis points sequentially
  • Non-GAAP⁽¹⁾ of 36.4%, up 550 basis points from the prior-year period and up 650 basis points sequentially
• Diluted net earnings per share (“EPS”):
  • GAAP of $0.11, down $0.88 from the prior-year period
  • Non-GAAP⁽¹⁾ of $0.62, up $0.04 from the prior-year period and above our outlook range of $0.56 - $0.60
• Cash flow from operations: $2.5 billion, an increase of $435 million from the prior-year period
• Free cash flow (“FCF”) ⁽¹⁾⁽³⁾: $1.9 billion, an increase of $420 million from the prior-year period
• Capital returns to common shareholders: $271 million in the form of dividends and share repurchases

Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Segment Results

• Server revenue was $4.5 billion, down 5% from the prior-year period in actual dollars and in constant currency⁽¹⁾, with 9.8% operating profit margin, compared to 11.6% from the prior-year period.

• Networking revenue was $2.8 billion, up 150% from the prior-year period in actual dollars and in constant currency⁽¹⁾, with 23% operating profit margin, compared to 24.4% from the prior-year period.

• Hybrid Cloud revenue was $1.4 billion, down 12% from the prior-year period in actual dollars and 13% in constant currency⁽¹⁾, with 5% operating profit margin, compared to 7.8% from the prior-year period.

• Financial Services revenue was $889 million, flat from the prior-year period in actual dollars and down 2% in constant currency⁽¹⁾, with 11.5% of operating profit margin, compared to 9.2% from the prior-year period. Net portfolio assets of $13.2 billion, down 3% from the prior-year period and 5% in constant currency⁽¹⁾. The business delivered return on equity of 20.8%, up 3.8 points from the prior-year period.

Dividend

The HPE Board of Directors declared a regular cash dividend of $0.1425 per share on the company’s common stock, payable on or about January 16, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 19, 2025.

Fiscal 2026 First Quarter Outlook

HPE estimates revenue to be in the range of $9 billion to $9.4 billion. HPE estimates GAAP diluted net EPS to be in the range of $0.09 to $0.13 and non-GAAP diluted net EPS⁽¹⁾ to be in the range of $0.57 to $0.61. Fiscal 2026 first quarter non-GAAP diluted net EPS estimate excludes net after-tax adjustments of approximately $0.48 per diluted share, primarily related to amortization of intangible assets, acquisition, disposition and other charges, stock-based compensation expense, and cost reduction program.

Fiscal 2026 Full Year Outlook

HPE is reaffirming its FY26 revenue outlook range of 17% to 22%, as previously provided at our Securities Analyst Meeting. HPE estimates non-GAAP operating profit growth between 32% to 40%⁽¹⁾⁽⁴⁾ and GAAP operating profit growth to be 455% to 520%. HPE is raising both GAAP diluted net EPS to be in the range of $0.62 to $0.82 and non-GAAP diluted net EPS⁽¹⁾ to be in the range of $2.25 to $2.45. Fiscal 2026 full year non-GAAP diluted net EPS estimate excludes net after-tax adjustments of approximately $1.63 per diluted share, primarily related to amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition, disposition and other charges, and cost reduction program. HPE is also raising the midpoint of its free cash flow^(1)(3)(5) guidance, now expected to be in the range of $1.7 billion to $2 billion.

¹ A description of HPE’s use of non-GAAP financial information is provided below under “Use of non-GAAP financial information and key performance metrics.”

² Annualized Revenue Run-Rate (“ARR”) is a financial metric used to assess the growth of the Consumption Services offerings. ARR represents the annualized revenue of all net HPE GreenLake cloud services revenue, related financial services revenue (which includes rental income from operating leases and interest income from finance leases), and software-as-a-Service, software consumption revenue, and other as-a-Service offerings, by taking such revenue recognized during a quarter and multiplying by four. To better align the calculation of ARR with Juniper Networks’ business and offerings, beginning with the quarter ended July 31, 2025, we also included revenue from software licenses support and maintenance in our ARR calculation, and will continue to do so going forward. The impact of this change was not material to the current and prior periods presented. We use ARR as a performance metric. ARR should be viewed independently of net revenue and is not intended to be combined with it.

³ Free cash flow represents cash flow from operations, less net capital expenditures (investments in property, plant & equipment (“PP&E”) and software assets less proceeds from the sale of PP&E), and adjusted for the effect of exchange rate fluctuations on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash.​

⁴ FY26 non-GAAP operating profit excludes costs of approximately $2.9 billion primarily related to amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition, disposition and other charges, and cost reduction program.

⁵ Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides certain guidance on a non-GAAP basis. In reliance on the exception provided by Item 10(e)(1)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is unable to provide a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure without unreasonable efforts, as the Company cannot predict some elements that are included in such directly comparable GAAP financial measure. These elements could have a material impact on the Company’s reported GAAP results for the guidance period. Refer to the discussion of non-GAAP financial measures below for more information.

About HPE

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Use of non-GAAP financial information and key performance metrics

To supplement Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s condensed consolidated financial statement information presented on a generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) basis, Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides financial measures, including revenue on a constant currency basis (including at the business segment level), non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross profit margin, non-GAAP operating profit (non-GAAP earnings from operations), non-GAAP operating profit margin (non-GAAP earnings from operations as a percentage of net revenue), non-GAAP income tax rate, non-GAAP net earnings attributable to HPE and non-GAAP net earnings attributable to common stockholders, non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share attributable to common stockholders, and free cash flow (“FCF”). Hewlett Packard Enterprise also provides forecasts of revenue growth on a constant currency basis, non-GAAP operating profit growth, non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share, and FCF. Reconciliations of each of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures for this quarter and prior periods are included in the tables below or elsewhere in the materials accompanying this news release. In addition an explanation of the ways in which Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s management uses these non-GAAP measures to evaluate its business, the substance behind Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s decision to use these non-GAAP measures, the material limitations associated with the use of these non-GAAP measures, the manner in which Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s management compensates for those limitations, and the substantive reasons why Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s management believes that these non-GAAP measures provide supplemental useful information to investors is included further below. This additional non-GAAP financial information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for revenue, gross profit, gross profit margin, operating profit (earnings from operations), operating profit margin (earnings from operations as a percentage of net revenue), net earnings, diluted net earnings per share, and cash flow from operations prepared in accordance with GAAP.

In addition to the supplemental non-GAAP financial information, Hewlett Packard Enterprise also presents annualized revenue run-rate (“ARR”) as performance metric. ARR is a financial metric used to assess the growth of the Consumption Services offerings. ARR represents the annualized revenue of all net HPE GreenLake cloud services revenue, related financial services revenue (which includes rental income from operating leases and interest income from finance leases), and software-as-a-service (“SaaS”), software consumption revenue, and other as-a-service offerings by taking such revenue recognized during a quarter and multiplying by four. To better align the calculation of ARR with Juniper Networks’ business and offerings, beginning with the quarter ended July 31, 2025, we also included revenue from software licenses support and maintenance in our ARR calculation, and will continue to do so going forward. The impact of this change was not material to the current and prior periods presented. ARR should be viewed independently of net revenue and is not intended to be combined with it.

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As in prior periods, the financial information set forth in this press release, including tax-related items, reflects estimates based on information available at this time. While Hewlett Packard Enterprise believes these estimates to be reasonable, these amounts could differ materially from reported amounts in the filings made by Hewlett Packard Enterprise from time to time 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.