UPDATE: Hewlett-Packard Still in Early Innings of Turnaround, Pacific Crest Says

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Shares of
Hewlett-PackardHPQ
are moving higher by 2.2 percent to $32.91 thanks to an upgrade from Pacific Crest and rumors the company could
produce the first dedicated laptop
using
Google'sGOOG
Android software. Pacific Crest analyst Brent Bracelin upgraded the stock from Sector Perform to Outperform and announced a $37 price target. The upgrade is based on "increased confidence in profit recovery from a seven-year low led by operating margin expansion, enterprise share gains, and stabilizing PC trends." Hewlett-Packard is “still in the early innings of a multi-year turnaround,” according to Bracelin. Bracelin raised the FY2014 and FY2015 earnings estimates by $0.05 and $0.09 to $3.75 and $3.96 respectively. The $37 price target is based on “a target P/E of 9x the 2015 estimates...and assumes only slight multiple expansion from FTM P/E 8.6x.”
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