HP Raises Annual Revenue Outlook, Regardless of Influence of Russian Sanctions

For the quarter, it projected a revenue of 95 cents to $1.01 a share, or $1.02 to $1.08 a share as adjusted, roughly in step with analysts’ forecasts, based on FactSet.

“We’ve got stopped shipments of all of the prohibited merchandise,” Chief Govt

Enrique Lores

stated, referring to sanctions positioned on Russia. He added that HP expects to mitigate the affect within the second half of the 12 months.

The roughly $17 billion in web income for the January-ended quarter beat the analyst consensus and mirrored gross sales development throughout notebooks and desktops together with a continued restoration in workstations. Analysts polled by FactSet anticipated $16.52 billion.

Shares of HP closed Monday at $34.36, off lower than 1% for the day and have been flat in after-hours buying and selling. The inventory is down 8.8% to this point this 12 months.

Mr. Lores stated HP had seen some supply-chain enchancment however that the print enterprise is seeing the affect from earlier manufacturing unit lockdowns and expects shortages to proceed the remainder of the 12 months. Nonetheless, he stated: “We count on that we will scale back backlog.”

Printing income fell 4% to $4.83 billion, lacking analysts’ $4.91 billion forecast, based on FactSet.

Mr. Lores pointed to energy on the industrial aspect, as workplaces reopen and firms put money into gear to permit for hybrid work preparations.

“Workers want higher-end PCs to have the ability to join, to speak, with higher cameras, extra reminiscence, higher shows,” he stated.

Industrial PC income rose 26% within the newest quarter, the corporate stated, whereas client PC gross sales declined 1%.

Private-computer gross sales have seen a powerful rebound throughout the pandemic, and in 2021 registered the strongest development in practically a decade.

PC distributors like HP have stated demand would pattern even larger have been it not for supply-chain points. They cite hybrid work and schooling preparations as modifications which can be anticipated to proceed to carry gross sales.

Prime PC vendor

Lenovo Group Ltd.

stated final week that the market is anticipated to stay stable and shift to industrial and premium segments, which ought to drive up common promoting costs.

Dell Applied sciences Inc.

final week reported a document 12 months for its PC enterprise and projected one other robust efficiency this enterprise 12 months. Nevertheless it additionally famous that supply-chain points worsened within the fourth quarter in servers and storage and are anticipated to stay throughout the first half of the 12 months.

“There are provide constraints all through the business which can be impacting us and are inflicting incremental value,” Dell Chief Monetary Officer

Tom Candy

stated in a convention name to debate the corporate’s efficiency. “So there was some strain on gross margin.”

Gross margin is anticipated to “pattern up regularly over the course of the 12 months,” Mr. Candy stated, although “there’s work to do to get it there.”

Equally, HP had pointed to income development and margin enlargement for the personal-systems section, which incorporates the PC enterprise, with a shift to industrial, premium and peripherals like microphones and headsets.

Peripherals income rose 40% within the newest quarter, pushed by gaming, the corporate stated.

“We’ve got seen that players spend 5 instances extra money on peripherals than they do of their computer systems,” Mr. Lores stated.

HP’s first-quarter revenue rose to $1.09 billion, or 99 cents a share. On an adjusted foundation, revenue rose to $1.10 a share.

The outcomes beat HP’s forecast and analysts’ projections.

HP stated it now expects to make a revenue of $3.87 to $4.07 a share this 12 months, or $4.18 to $4.38 as adjusted, in contrast with its earlier view of $3.86 to $4.06 a share, or $4.07 to $4.27 a share as adjusted. It nonetheless expects to generate no less than $4.5 billion in free money move.

Write to Maria Armental at maria.armental@wsj.com