Hewlett Packard Enterprise Comp (HPE) news and analysis
HPE gave Oracle (ORCL) a warrant for 4.16 million shares at a penny each. Two months later, it announced the deal.
The September 2 press release said only that HPE had issued Oracle warrants. The 10-Q filed the next day has the number of shares, the penny strike, the vesting trigger, the expiry date, and a July 2 issue date.
Pasqal (PSQL) doubled on its Nasdaq debut days after holders redeemed 90% of the SPAC shares
Holders of 26 million of Bleichroeder II's 29 million public shares took the $10 exit before the August 27 close. PSQL then finished its August 28 debut up 95% before giving much of it back.
Dell (DELL) raises its full-year outlook by $25 billion as AI server backlog nearly doubles to $95 billion
Dell booked a record $60.9 billion of AI server orders in the quarter ended July 31 and exited with a $95 billion AI backlog, up from $51.3 billion in May. Revenue rose 58% to $47.0 billion, fiscal 2027 guidance moved to $192 billion, and free cash flow fell 47% as inventory doubled.
Marvell (MRVL) fell 10.3% on margins. Now Dell (DELL), Credo (CRDO) and Broadcom (AVGO) report into the same question
Marvell fell 10.3% Friday after guiding gross margin lower on a greater custom mix. Ten of the names we track report between September 1 and 3, and Broadcom, Credo and Ciena all sell into the same build.
Cybersecurity keeps pulling in money. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) trades at 291 times earnings.
Cybersecurity spending looks as durable as anything in this market, and a wave of M&A backs it up: three public companies gone in a year, the biggest a $25 billion Palo Alto Networks deal for CyberArk. But Palo Alto itself trades at 291 times earnings and CrowdStrike's price-to-earnings ratio is negative. Here's the market-cap breakdown of the 21 stocks left standing, and why the category and the stocks aren't the same bet.
Pasqal hired a 30-year HPE executive to lead its commercial push, months into its $2 billion SPAC deal
Pasqal, the Nobel laureate's quantum computing startup, just hired a nearly 30-year HPE veteran to lead its commercial push across Europe and Asia. The hire comes months into the $2 billion SPAC merger it announced back in March, still working toward a close later this year.
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