HP Inc. reported a record Q3 with strong revenue growth driven by personal systems, though margins are under pressure from rising component costs. Management is guiding to a margin trough in Q4 before a recovery in FY27, citing a disciplined mitigation strategy and a mix shift to higher-value AI and premium PCs. The tone was cautiously optimistic on the future of edge AI compute. HPQ delivered record Q3 revenue of $15.7B, up 13% YoY, driven by a robust personal systems segment (up 18%).
HP Inc. reported a record Q3 with strong revenue growth driven by personal systems, though margins are under pressure from rising component costs. Management is guiding to a margin trough in Q4 before a recovery in FY27, citing a disciplined mitigation strategy and a mix shift to higher-value AI and premium PCs. The tone was cautiously optimistic on the future of edge AI compute. HPQ delivered record Q3 revenue of $15.7B, up 13% YoY, driven by a robust personal systems segment (up 18%).
HP Inc. reported a record Q3 with strong revenue growth driven by personal systems, though margins are under pressure from rising component costs. Management is guiding to a margin trough in Q4 before a recovery in FY27, citing a disciplined mitigation strategy and a mix shift…
Management is positioning HP as a trusted edge AI platform, citing growing customer demand for on-device AI to lower token costs and improve latency, security, and governance. They highlighted a strong AIPC mix (46% in Q3, targeting 50% by year-end), new products like HP ZGX…
Guidance tone
Reported gross margin was 18.79%, reinforcing the quarter's better-than-guided profitability.
Management is positioning HP as a trusted edge AI platform, citing growing customer demand for on-device AI to lower token costs and improve latency, security, and governance. They highlighted a strong AIPC mix (46% in Q3, targeting 50% by year-end), new products like HP ZGX FURY and Omnibook Ultra 16, and a scaled OpenAI partnership to integrate AI internally.
Management cited a 13% revenue increase (record Q3) driven by personal systems, with continued demand for AIPC and edge AI workloads. They noted that customers are refreshing to higher-spec PCs for AI, and that the Win 11 refresh (now ~70% complete) is being augmented by AI-driven demand. However, they expect PC unit TAM to decline high-teens in 2H26 due to price increases, causing some demand def
No explicit capital expenditure figures or infrastructure investment plans were discussed beyond general mentions of building an enhanced operating model and investing in innovation. Management emphasized cost mitigation and a focus on profitable growth rather than large-scale capex.
Management expressed confidence in execution, growth areas, and long-term positioning despite near-term margin pressures from commodity costs, emphasizing strong revenue growth, share gains in premium segments, and an optimistic outlook for AI-driven opportunity.
“We remain confident in our memory and storage supply availability for this fiscal year and our focus on our needs into next year and beyond.”
“We now expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of 319 to 329, up from our previous range of 290 to 310, and including a 19 cent favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds.”
“We grew 2.6 points of share on premium and 1.8 points of share on workstation. Those are categories which are growing and something which we are pleased that we continue to take share.”
“we remain aligned with industry experts, projecting the PC unit TAM to decline high teams year-over-year for the second half of the calendar year.”
| Metric | Period | Range | Midpoint | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS | FY2026 Q4 | $0.69–$0.79 | $0.74 | GUIDED |
| EPS | FY2026 | $3.19–$3.29 | $3.24 | RAISED |
| Free cash flow | FY2026 | $3B–$3.2B | $3.1B | RAISED |
| Issued | Metric | Target | Guide | Actual | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 Q2 | EPS | FY2026 Q3 | $0.61–$0.71 | $0.83 | Met / beat |
| FY2026 Q1 | EPS | FY2026 Q2 | $0.70–$0.76 | $0.86 | Met / beat |
| FY2025 Q4 | EPS | FY2026 Q1 | $0.73–$0.81 | $0.81 | Met / beat |
A significant new customer win for HP's Industrial printing and AI solutions, validating its strategy.
“In Q3, we also signed a three-year, $100 million strategic agreement with RRD, one of the world's leading print service providers.”
… up to 47%. Our HP Neo AI Companion brings agentic AI to industrial print operations and is gaining momentum. Neo was awarded the 2026 European Digital Press Association Award for Best Software Agent in the Print Industry AI category. This underscores our commitment to intelligent, data-driven production ecosystems with built-in remote remediation capabilities and, importantly, solving uptime problems for our printer service customers. In Q3, we also signed a three-year, $100 million strategic agreement with RRD, one of the world's leading print service providers. This reflects our shared vision to accelerate AI and industrial automation and print production. Succeeding at the edge also requires intelligent ways to manage the technology portfolio. Work moves across PCs, meeting rooms, collaboration tools, printers, and other endpoints. Our WXP platform helps CIOs track and manage fleets of connected devices and applications. This quarter we integrated HP PolyLens and collaboration capabilities into WXP, giving IT teams greater visibility across PCs, printers, and collaboration devices. By bringing together insights that were previously isolated across different …
HP is using NVIDIA's AI compute platforms in its premium PCs to capitalize on the edge AI trend.
“powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark.”
… same potential in many other sectors that require onsite compute performance, strong security, and the most cost-effective ways to manage increasingly complex AI models. This creates significant opportunities in areas like retail, public sector, and healthcare. We are also advancing what PCs can do as devices. In the eugenic era, PCs are becoming partners that understand your needs and help meet them. So we are reimagining what a personal computer can do with our new Omnibook Ultra 16 powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark. It brings the compute needed to build and run sophisticated AI models and personal agents to a thin, mainstream mobile PC. and our OmniDesk Mini Desktop combines full-sized performance with a compact design and built-in AI capabilities. In print, we're already delivering tangible customer value with AI. In June, we expanded our flagship AI-powered print experience, Precise Print, to more than 150 countries. By intelligently removing unnecessary web content before printing, Precise Print helps customers reduce paper usage by up to 38% and ink consumption up to 47%. Our HP Neo AI Companion brings agentic AI to industrial print operations and is gaining momentum. Neo was …
HP is scaling its use of OpenAI tools, indicating a deepening partnership and growing dependency on OpenAI's technology for its own operations.
“As Passport, we scaled our work with OpenAI. Through OpenAI Frontier, we are integrating AI across the customer and partner experiences”
… At HP, we consider ourselves customer zero. using our own business as a proving ground for the products and solutions we develop. Like our customers, HP is benefiting today from localized AI capabilities using edge inferencing across our business. For example, in our Singapore production facility, teams are using our ZBook workstations running an Opus model to enhance quality insurance and detection capabilities on the manufacturing line. As Passport, we scaled our work with OpenAI. Through OpenAI Frontier, we are integrating AI across the customer and partner experiences, the HG store, digital support, WXP telemetry, employee productivity, and software development. Early deployments are already helping teams accelerate engineering workflows, enhance security analysis, and automate routine tasks while maintaining HP's high standards for data, governance, and security. We are just getting started with OpenAI and expect to share more as we turn our pilots into scaled capabilities that create business value. Let me now focus on the external supply and cost environment, which remains complex. We continue to effectively execute our mitigation plan. We remain confident in our memory …
HP's PC market view for the second half of calendar 2026 anticipates unit declines of 'high teens,' which is a more pessimistic outlook than typical seasonality and a result of component-driven price increases dampening demand. — Confirms that component price increases are leading to significant unit demand destruction, a negative signal for the entire PC supply chain.
… over time as long as our gross leverage remains under two times and there aren't better return opportunities. Looking ahead to the remainder of our fiscal year, we continue to expect input costs to rise, putting near-term pressure on our operating margins, particularly in personal systems. We are factoring that into our Q4 outlook along with the traction we are making on our cost mitigation plans. By segment, In personal systems, we remain aligned with industry experts, projecting the PC unit TAM to decline high teams year-over-year for the second half of the calendar year. Given the impact of commodity-driven price increases, we expect below-seasonal revenue performance in Q4. That said, we do expect year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter, driven by pricing actions, share gains in premium categories, Attach of higher margin offerings and increased penetration of AI PCs as more AI workloads move to edge devices. We continue to expect memory and storage costs to increase further as a percentage of the bill of materials. And as we signaled last quarter, we expect our Q4 margin to be below Q3 levels and then to sequentially improve as we look ahead into FY27. In print, …
HP is confident of its memory supply for this fiscal year and beyond, indicating allocations are holding despite a 'constrained memory environment'. — This suggests that major memory suppliers are prioritizing high-margin enterprise customers like HP, potentially at the expense of others.
… accelerate engineering workflows, enhance security analysis, and automate routine tasks while maintaining HP's high standards for data, governance, and security. We are just getting started with OpenAI and expect to share more as we turn our pilots into scaled capabilities that create business value. Let me now focus on the external supply and cost environment, which remains complex. We continue to effectively execute our mitigation plan. We remain confident in our memory and storage supply availability for this fiscal year and our focus on our needs into next year and beyond. The enhanced operating model we are building is designed to compound over time, creating a more connected process-led enterprise that can serve customers with greater consistency, speed, and predictability. What we are building is not a short-term efficiency program or a situational response, but a fundamental, stronger operating model that better connects planning, decision-making, and execution across the enterprise. We already see early signs of this working in areas such as order delivery predictability, improved accuracy rates leading to better conversion on incoming orders. With solid mitigation …
Validation of HP's software portfolio by a major industry analyst firm.
… fleets of connected devices and applications. This quarter we integrated HP PolyLens and collaboration capabilities into WXP, giving IT teams greater visibility across PCs, printers, and collaboration devices. By bringing together insights that were previously isolated across different environments, organizations and channel partners can turn data into actionable intelligence, improve workforce experiences, Lower costs and establish a governance layer. WXP was named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for digital employee experience management tools. We believe the future of computing will be increasingly intelligent and integrated, with devices anticipating user needs, executing tasks seamlessly, and connecting traditionally separate cloud and desktop environments. By bringing AI capabilities closer to users, these devices can provide the context required for more effective reasoning and inference. AI at the Edge offers meaningful benefits for our customers while creating significant incremental growth opportunities for HP and the broader industry. We believe HP is uniquely positioned to lead this evolution through our broad portfolio of products and services, trusted …
HP gained significant share in the premium PC and workstation categories (2.6 and 1.8 points, respectively) during a quarter with steep price increases, showing it is winning in high-value segments while its overall unit volumes declined. — Suggests HP is successfully shifting its product mix to higher-ASP, higher-margin categories, potentially taking share from competitors in these segments.
… refunds in the quarter, we expect operating margins in the lower half of our long-term range, reflecting our focus on incremental hardware unit placement and near-term input cost pressures, which we are actively working to mitigate. Beyond the segments, we expect Q4 OINE and corporate to be similar to Q3 levels. All in, based on our strong performance in the quarter, we are increasing our outlook for the fiscal year. We now expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of 319 to 329, up from our previous range of 290 to 310, and including a 19 cent favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. For Q4 specifically, We expect alluded net earnings per share to be in the range of 69 cents to 79 cents, including an 8 cent favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. And given our improved earnings performance and strong free cash flow in Q3, we are also increasing our outlook for free cash flow to be in the range of $3 to $3.2 billion for the fiscal year. Looking beyond this fiscal year, as Bruce said, we see meaningful opportunity as workloads continue shifting to the edge, and we are well positioned to lead this transition through our trusted devices, software, and …
HP gained significant share in the premium PC and workstation categories (2.6 and 1.8 points, respectively) during a quarter with steep price increases, showing it is winning in high-value segments while its overall unit volumes declined. — Suggests HP is successfully shifting its product mix to higher-ASP, higher-margin categories, potentially taking share from competitors in these segments.
Thank you for the question. It was impressive to see the 18% revenue growth in the personal system segment, though units were down 16%. And I was wondering if you could help quantify or otherwise rank how like-for-like price increases, portfolio makeshift benefits, and then the increased attach of related services benefited that implied ASP increase in the quarter, and if one-third of gross profit in this segment coming from those attached businesses is still the right way to think about the mix. And then I have a quick follow-up. Thank you.
Yeah, just to give some color to the mix thing, that how mix is helping us in the overall margin performance is our sequential gains on premium categories has been pretty strong. We grew 2.6 points of share on premium and 1.8 points of share on workstation. Those are categories which are growing and something which we are pleased that we continue to take share. And to your other comment around non-hardware business contribution, Yes, the attached businesses which is combination of peripherals, collaboration solutions, services such as WXP and others have contributed one-third of the overall PS gross profit and that's in line with what we have been forecasting that those are the businesses which will continue to focus.
The 'tariff refund' benefit of 19 cents per share for the year is a non-operating cash boost that lifted reported margins, masking underlying cost pressure.
… refunds in the quarter, we expect operating margins in the lower half of our long-term range, reflecting our focus on incremental hardware unit placement and near-term input cost pressures, which we are actively working to mitigate. Beyond the segments, we expect Q4 OINE and corporate to be similar to Q3 levels. All in, based on our strong performance in the quarter, we are increasing our outlook for the fiscal year. We now expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of 319 to 329, up from our previous range of 290 to 310, and including a 19 cent favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. For Q4 specifically, We expect alluded net earnings per share to be in the range of 69 cents to 79 cents, including an 8 cent favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. And given our improved earnings performance and strong free cash flow in Q3, we are also increasing our outlook for free cash flow to be in the range of $3 to $3.2 billion for the fiscal year. Looking beyond this fiscal year, as Bruce said, we see meaningful opportunity as workloads continue shifting to the edge, and we are well positioned to lead this transition through our trusted devices, software, and …