HPQ: Summary for HEWLETT PACKARD CO

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Thursday, December 21, 2006, 4:11PM ET - U.S. Markets Closed. Dow

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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)

At 3:51PM ET: 40.75

0.59 (1.43%)

HEWLETT PACKARD CO (NYSE:HPQ) Delayed quote data

Last Trade:	40.75
Trade Time:	3:51PM ET
Change:	0.59 (1.43%)
Prev Close:	41.34
Open:	41.10
Bid:	N/A
Ask:	N/A
1y Target Est:	43.56

Day's Range:	40.50 - 41.23
52wk Range:	28.35 - 41.46
Volume:	11,938,400
Avg Vol (3m):	14,930,800
Market Cap:	111.61B
P/E (ttm):	18.75
EPS (ttm):	2.17
Div & Yield:	0.32 (0.80%)

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Name of the Company (return to table)	Self explanatory
Name of Stock Market (return to table)	Indicates where the stock is listed for trading: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) or the NASDAQ stock market.
Ticker Symbol (return to table)	This ticker symbol is used to identify the stock when looking it up on various computer databases or electronic-information systems. If you do not know a company's ticker symbol, you may go to symbol lookup at the top of the page.
Last trade (return to table)	This is the price at which the most recent trade was executed. At the end of a trading day the last trade price would be called the closing price. The closing price is used for valuing portfolios and other purposes.
Change (return to table)	The "change" is the difference between the current price (Last trade) and the previous day's closing price.
Previous Close (return to table)	The "previous close" price was the last trade price that occurred on the previous trading day.
Open (return to table)	This price represents the selling price for the first stock sale on a particular trading date.
Bid (return to table)	This is the highest price that someone is willing to pay to buy shares of stock. This also means that this is the highest price you can expect to get for your shares of stock when selling them.
Ask (return to table)	The ask price is the lowest price you can pay for the stock. This is because it's the lowest price any seller is offering their shares of stock for.
Volume (return to table)	This number indicates the number of shares traded so far on the particular trading date.
Day's Range (return to table)	These numbers indicate the highest and lowest prices paid for the stock during the particular trading date.
Price-Earnings Ratio (return to table)	The P-E, or price-earnings, ratio is the result of dividing the latest clsing price by the latest available earnings per share. (Earnings per share is profit divided by the number of shares outstanding.) The P-E ratio is used as an indicator of relative stock performance. High P-E figures indicate a stock price that represents a high multiple of a company's earnings, and suggest that investors are more optimistic about the stock's prospects. Low P-E stock, on the other hand, trade at a lower multiple of earnings, and often represent lower investor favor. But there isn't any "best" ratio. Reasons for high and low P-Es include the company's growth outlook, the industry the company is engaged in, accounting policies, riskiness or the stability of earnings.
Market Capitalization (return to table)	Represents the total dollar market value of the shares of stock outstanding. This number would be obtained by taking the total number of shares held by stockholders multiplied by the current selling price.
Average Volume (return to table)	This number indicates the average number of shares traded during the past three months for this particular stock.
52-week Range (return to table)	These numbers indicate the highest and lowest prices paid for the stock over the past 52 weeks.
Dividends Per Share (return to table)	This number represents the stock's annual cash dividend, if any, based on the rate of the last quarterly payout to shareholders.
1y Target Est (return to table)	The 1 year target price estimate represents the median target price as forecast by analysts covering the stock.
EPS (ttm) (return to table)	Earnings Per Share (EPS) is stated for the most recent 12 months (ttm, trailing twelve months). It represents primary earnings from continuing operations attributable to each share of common stock outstanding.
Yield (return to table)	The percentage dividend yield is obtained by dividing the cash dividend by the closing price of the stock. This enables dividend yields to be compared with other stocks and with the interest paid on debt instruments. Please observe that the yield does not consider the effects of changes in the market price of the security.