Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2 2025 Earnings Report

Hewlett Packard Enterprise EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.38
• Consensus EPS: $0.33
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.05
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.42

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $7.63 billion
• Expected Revenue: $7.51 billion
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$119.82 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +5.90%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2025
• Date: 6/3/2025
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 5:00PM ET

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) (NYSE:HPE) is a global technology company that was formed in November 2015 through the separation of Hewlett-Packard Company into two publicly traded entities. While HP Inc. retained the personal computer and printer business, Hewlett Packard Enterprise took on the enterprise technology infrastructure, software, and services segments. The split marked a strategic shift to focus on the needs of large organizations and data-driven enterprises seeking scalable, secure, and high-performance IT solutions.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s core business spans a range of products and services designed to help organizations modernize their IT environments. Its offerings include enterprise servers and storage systems, such as the ProLiant server line and the 3PAR storage arrays, network switches and wireless infrastructure under the Aruba brand, and mission-critical computing platforms. In recent years, HPE has expanded its portfolio to encompass edge-to-cloud software solutions, including its HPE GreenLake platform, which delivers on-demand capacity, consumption-based IT, and integrated cloud services for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

The company operates in more than 100 countries, serving a diverse set of industries including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and public sector organizations. HPE maintains regional headquarters across the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and the Asia-Pacific region, supported by an extensive network of partners, resellers, and managed service providers. This global reach enables HPE to tailor its solutions to local market requirements while leveraging its worldwide scale for research, development, and supply chain optimization.

Under the leadership of President and CEO Antonio Neri, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pursued a strategic roadmap focused on innovation in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and edge computing. The company’s executive team has emphasized sustainability initiatives and digital transformation services to help clients reduce carbon footprints and accelerate their path to a digital-first enterprise. As HPE continues to evolve its technology stack and partner ecosystem, it aims to address the complex challenges of modern IT landscapes and drive long-term value for its customers and shareholders.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• HPE delivered Q2 revenue of $7.6 B and non-GAAP EPS of $0.38, both above the high end of guidance, driven by broad product strength and AI system conversions.
• The company signed $1.1 B of net new AI orders, converted over $1.0 B into AI system revenue, and exited the quarter with a $3.2 B AI backlog.
• Hybrid Cloud revenue grew 15% year-over-year led by Alletra MP storage (75% order growth) and GreenLake ARR rising to $2.2 B run rate (up 47%), highlighting a shift to higher-margin subscription models.
• HPE reiterated its plan to improve the server segment operating margin from 5.9% in Q2 to approximately 10% exiting Q4 through pricing analytics, tighter discount controls, and inventory management.
• The company recorded a $1.4 B non-cash goodwill impairment charge, posted a GAAP loss per share of $0.82, and reported negative free cash flow of $847 M due to AI backlog conversion timing.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Fiscal twenty twenty five Second Quarter Hewlett Packard Enterprise Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants will be in a listen only mode. We will be facilitating a question and answer session towards the end of the conference. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's call, Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Good afternoon. I am Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. I would like to welcome you to our fiscal twenty twenty five second quarter earnings conference call with Antonio Neri, HPE's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Marie Myers, HPE's Chief Financial Officer. Before handing the call to Antonio, let me remind you that this call is being webcast. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the call concludes.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We have posted the press release and the slide presentation accompanying the release on our HPE Investor Relations webpage. Elements of the financial information referenced on this call are forward looking and are based on our best view of the world and our businesses as we see them today. HPE assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any such forward looking statements. We also note that the financial information discussed on this call reflects estimates based on information available at this time and could differ materially from the amounts ultimately reported in HPE's quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the fiscal quarter ended 04/30/2025. For more detailed information, please see the disclaimers on the earnings materials relating to forward looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Please refer to HPE's filings with the SEC for a discussion of these risks. For financial information we have expressed on a non GAAP basis, we have provided reconciliations to the comparable GAAP information on our website. Please refer to the tables and slide presentation accompanying today's earnings release on our website for details. Throughout this conference call, all revenue growth rates, unless noted otherwise, are presented on a year over year basis and adjusted to exclude the impact of currency. Antonio and Marie will refer to our earnings presentation in their prepared comments.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Finally, I would like to announce that we will hold our Security Analyst Meeting on 10/15/2025. We will provide more details as the date gets closer. With that, let me turn it over to Antonio.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, everyone. In Q2, HPE delivered solid results. We executed well and delivered both revenue and non GAAP diluted net earnings per share above the high end of guidance. Through focused and disciplined execution, we have addressed the operational challenges we experienced in our Service segment last quarter.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We expect these actions will contribute to margin improvement through fiscal year end. In the second quarter, we saw a very dynamic macro and trade policy environment. The IT industry continues to navigate significant uncertainty brought on by tariffs, the AI diffusion policy withdrawal and broad macroeconomic concerns. While this led to uneven demand during the quarter, we did not benefit from significant order pull ins. We ended Q2 with our stronger pipeline compared to Q1, reinforcing that our strategy is the right one.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Q2 revenue was $7,600,000,000 up 7% year over year and just above the high end of our previously provided guidance. We saw year over year revenue growth in every product segment. The results were led by higher AI system revenue conversion in server, solid performance in Intelligent Edge, and stronger than expected performance in our hybrid cloud segment, which was driven by our HPE Alletra MP storage transition and the continued adoption of HPE GreenLake cloud subscription services. Q2 operating profit grew year over year in hybrid cloud, Intelligent Edge and HPE Financial Services. As we said in our Q1 earnings, we expect that server operating profit to decline quarter over quarter, although our server revenue and operating margin were near the high end of our Q2 guide.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We remain laser focused on execution in our server segment. Since our last update, we have closely monitored the changes implemented to improve profitability. These include the rollout of new pricing analytics, increased discount scrutiny and inventory management. As we said in our last call, it will take a couple of quarters to realize the full benefit of these measures and we expect our service segment operating margin will recover to approximately 10% exiting Q4. We delivered non GAAP diluted net earnings per share of $0.38 above the high end of our previously provided guidance.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We benefited from lower than anticipated tariff impact and more favorable OI and E. Net of these items, non GAAP EPS was still at the high end of our outlook, driven by solid revenue performance and cost management. As we move into the second half, we have improved line of sight to timing of our AI revenue conversion. As such, we are tightening our revenue outlook to be up 7% to 9% year over year. In addition, we are raising the low end of our non GAAP diluted net earnings per share range by $08 We continue to capitalize on the megatrends reshaping the IT industry across networking, AI and hybrid cloud.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

In networking, the market continues to recover. Year over year, our business achieved its third consecutive quarter of orders growth and return to revenue growth. In AI, we signed $1,100,000,000 of net new orders with enterprise accounting for one third. We converted more than $1,000,000,000 into revenue, up from $900,000,000 last quarter. And we exited with $3,200,000,000 of backlog in AI systems.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Our pipeline remains multiples of our backlog. In our hybrid cloud segment, we saw another solid quarter of storage revenue performance with our Alectra portfolio growing high double digits year over year. The transition to a subscription business model is a revenue headwind in the near term, or more accretive to profitability long term. Orders for Alletra MP have grown more than 75% year over year for four consecutive quarters, contributed to our growing deferred software revenue balance. This demonstrates the value of our disaggregated architecture with multi protocol support and the flexibility of our offering.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Finally, GreenLake continues to deliver strong results. We are growing customer count, which now totals approximately 42,000, generating over $2,200,000,000 of annualized revenue run rate. This is up 47% year over year and above our 35% to 45% CAGR commitment. Software and services continue to be more than 70% of our AIR, demonstrating a portfolio shift to higher growth and higher margin areas of the stack. Marie will provide more details on Q2 and our fiscal year outlook.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

But first, I would like to highlight several recent product launches that further reinforce our strategy. Last month, we launched the industry's most advanced private cloud portfolio. Morpheus and our HPE virtualization software have been integrated into our HPE private cloud portfolio. Through this integration, we can lower customers' virtualization costs by up to 90% on our core basis and unify management of their entire multi cloud and multi vendor IT estate. Customer interest in VM Essentials has been very strong.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Notably, Danfoss is planning to replace 75% of its virtual estate with VM Essentials within HPE GreenLake for private cloud enterprise. In networking, we introduced new capabilities with HPE Aruba Networking Central to expand universal Zero Trust network access solutions to help enterprises bolster cybersecurity. HPE Aruba Networking Central is now also available to deploy as an on premises option. This is particularly helpful for customers prioritizing data sovereignty. Aruba Network in Central now manages over 5,000,000 devices and is contributing to strong AIR subscription growth within Intelligent Edge.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We are maintaining our rapid pace of AI innovation in our deep and long standing partnership with NVIDIA. One of the cluster build outs we are working on right now with NVIDIA is a large deployment of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell MVL-seventy two systems. We are nearing completion and appreciate the continued partnership that pairs our capabilities. Most recently, at GTC, Taipei and Computex, we announced several enhanced storage and server platforms targeting all customer segments. In 2025, we integrated NVIDIA's latest GPUs into our server portfolio, which delivered record breaking performance for generative AI inferencing.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We announced advancements in storage to unify enterprise data management to create context rich AI ready object data with built in intelligence. And we launched the HPE Alletra Storage MPX 10,000 SDK solution for the NVIDIA AI data platform, bringing enterprise data into an intelligent orchestrated pipeline within the NVIDIA AI ecosystem. All these new innovations are aligned to our strategy to continue to move up stack to areas of higher growth with higher margins. We continue to help enterprises accelerate their business transformation across networking, hybrid cloud and AI. And we will unveil even more exciting breakthrough innovations at the HPE Discover later this month.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Finally, I want to reinforce our commitment to closing the Juniper Networks transaction. We expect the proposed transaction will deliver at least $450,000,000 in annual run rate synergies to our shareholders within thirty six months of closing the transaction. The deal will help both companies deliver a modern secure AI driven edge to cloud portfolio of networking products and services. We continue to expect to close the transaction before the end of fiscal year twenty twenty five. In closing, in Q2, we delivered solid results through focused and disciplined execution.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

As we committed, we have addressed the server execution challenges. Our leadership team and I took accountability and swift action despite the challenges of a fluid macro environment. We remain focused on executing against our goals and becoming a more agile and nimbler company to continue to increase our profitability and enhance shareholder value. I remain excited about the profitable growth opportunities HP has ahead, including the anticipated closure of the Juniper Networks transaction. We have the right strategy and the right team to continue to accelerate value for our shareholders.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

With that, let me turn it over to Marie. Marie?

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Thank you, Antonio, and good afternoon. In Q2, we addressed the execution challenges we experienced in Q1, which enabled us to drive improved margin performance in our server business as we moved through the quarter. While we still have more work to do to return the segment's operating profit margin performance to a double digit rate, we are on the right trajectory to achieve that by Q4 of this year. In addition, our Intelligent Edge business returned to year over year top line growth after five quarters as the networking market recovery gained momentum. And we reported double digit year over year revenue growth in our hybrid cloud segment for the third consecutive quarter, with all product lines contributing to growth.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We also made significant progress against the cost reduction program we announced last quarter, which we expect will contribute to our results in future quarters. We reported non GAAP diluted net earnings per share of $0.38 ahead of our outlook, driven in part by a more moderate tariff impact and operational benefits. However, we continue to navigate a complex macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape, and remain prepared to take additional action in the back half of the year to deliver against our fiscal twenty twenty five outlook. Let's talk about the details of the quarter. Our second quarter revenue was $7,600,000,000 up 7% year over year, but down 3% quarter over quarter, reflecting strong top line performance in Intelligent Edge and Hybrid Cloud and a year over year increase in server revenue.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We did not see a significant benefit from tariff related demand pull forward based on quarterly business linearity and historical order patterns. Our annualized revenue run rate was $2,200,000,000 up 47% year over year, driven again by AI and Intelligent Edge. Our software and services ARR grew nearly 60% year over year and improved its mix of ARR by 700 basis points to 75%, primarily due to an increase in GreenLake Flex subscriptions and AI services. Non GAAP gross margin was 29.4, down three seventy basis points year over year and flat quarter over quarter. On a year over year basis, gross margin was impacted primarily by an unfavorable mix within server, including the dilutive backlog in traditional compute we carried into the quarter.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Non GAAP operating margin was 8%, down 150 basis points year over year, reflecting lower gross margins partially offset by cost management. The 190 basis point sequential decline was primarily due to increased variable compensation and higher marketing expenses. Non GAAP operating expense as a percentage of revenue increased sequentially from a record low in Q1 and declined two twenty basis points year over year reflecting better cost discipline as our business scales further. We'll continue managing discretionary costs and driving efficiencies while working to increase the incremental structural cost savings we drove this quarter. Free cash flow was negative $847,000,000 slightly better than expected due in part to the conversion of some AI backlog.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

GAAP diluted net loss per share of $0.82 was below guidance of positive $08 to $0.14 primarily due to a non cash goodwill impairment charge recorded in the quarter. Non GAAP diluted net earnings per share of $0.38 was above our guided range of $0.28 to $0.34 EPS included $02 each related to tariffs and OI and E expense. Non GAAP diluted net earnings per share excludes $1,700,000,000 in net costs primarily driven by a non cash goodwill impairment charge of approximately $1,400,000,000 or $1.3 per share related to a hybrid cloud business. This charge is due primarily to the macroeconomic uncertainty that played out during the second quarter requiring an additional interim impairment test of our goodwill. These tests use a market based cost of capital assumption which increased significantly since our last test, leading to the material non cash impairment charge.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Our view on our hybrid cloud business has not changed. Other factors excluded from our non GAAP diluted net earnings per share include expenses related to our cost reduction program, stock based compensation expense, acquisition, disposition and other charges, amortization of intangible assets, and H3C divestiture related severance costs. Let's turn to our segment results. Server revenue was $4,100,000,000 up 7% year over year and a decline of 5% sequentially, consistent with the higher end of the guidance range we provided. The quarter over quarter revenue decline was impacted by lower traditional compute volumes due to the implementation of corrective pricing actions we took at the end of Q1, offset partially by higher than expected AI systems revenue.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We took decisive actions to address the execution issues that impacted our performance last quarter. Firstly, we implemented more rigorous reporting processes and analytics to more quickly identify and remediate operational issues. Secondly, we tightened down deal desk controls to require greater management scrutiny, including forward costing assumptions on orders. Lastly, we are managing inventory exposure associated with AI transactions and potential component transitions. We believe these steps will improve performance and profitability as we progress through the back half of fiscal twenty twenty five and into next year.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

In traditional server, consistent with our expectations, revenue declined sequentially driven by volume declines offsetting AUP growth as the Gen11 server refresh continues to drive the majority of our core compute sales mix. We began shipping Gen12 servers during Q2 and remain confident in its adoption and growth trajectory. In AI Systems, we signed $1,100,000,000 in net new orders driven by strong growth in our enterprise and sovereign markets on both a year over year and sequential basis. We recognized more than $1,000,000,000 of revenue during the quarter up from $900,000,000 last year. AI systems revenue increased by greater than 10% sequentially versus our guidance of a modest decline due to improved customer readiness.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Server operating margin of 5.9% was consistent with expectations. Our margin performance improved over the course of the quarter as the remediation actions we implemented in late Q1 helped offset some of the backlog pricing headwinds we carried into the quarter. Tariff related headwinds were milder than expected and margins are expected to benefit further from remediation actions as we progress through the second half of the year. Our Intelligent Edge business performance aligned with expectations as revenue and operating profit returned to year over year growth in Q2 for the first time in five quarters. Revenue was $1,200,000,000 up 8% year over year in line with our outlook for positive revenue growth due to the ongoing network market recovery and the diminished effect of the prior year's backlog.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Revenue was up 2% quarter over quarter, reflecting improved demand. We saw orders grow high single digits year over year including double digit growth in both data center and campus switching. Wi Fi seven demand ramped meaningfully with orders up triple digits sequentially. Federal, state and local and education spending was mixed in the quarter as the U. S.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Government adjusted the new administration's priorities while enterprise spending continued its positive trend. Our orders remained strong and our channel inventory levels remained healthy as sell through increased sequentially despite some pockets of softness across our geographies. Operating margin was 23.6%, up 180 basis points year over year driven by revenue growth and cost discipline resulting in operating profit dollar growth of 16%. Operating margin was down three eighty basis points quarter over quarter, primarily due to increased variable compensation expense and slightly lower gross profit. Moving to Hybrid Cloud.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Revenue was $1,500,000,000 Once again, we saw broad based strength across all areas of the business contributing to strong revenue growth of 15% year over year. Sequentially, revenue increased 4% exceeding our expectations. In storage, our HPE Elektra MP platform continues to drive robust growth with revenue up triple digits year over year and new logos up almost 300 sequentially. In addition, it continues to constitute over half of our IP block orders. In private cloud, we are seeing a strong pipeline for our PCAI product doubling quarter over quarter, while VM Essentials has garnered at least 1,000 interested customers.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Hybrid Cloud operating margin rose four forty basis points year over year to 5.4% driven by strong cost management but declined 160 basis points sequentially due to higher variable compensation. Lastly, Financial Services. Our Financial Services business generated revenue of $856,000,000 up 1% year over year and down 2% quarter over quarter. Financing volumes decreased 20 year over year to $1,300,000,000 Our Q2 loss ratio was 0.6% and return on equity totaled 17.5%. Operating margin of 10.4% increased 110 basis points year over year and 100 basis points quarter over quarter and was the highest in two years, primarily due to strong cost management.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

To cash flow and capital allocation. We consumed $461,000,000 of operating cash flow in the quarter and free cash flow was an outflow of $847,000,000 slightly better than we guided which benefited from better than expected non GAAP net earnings and inventory reduction. Inventory totaled $8,100,000,000 at the end of the period, down $481,000,000 sequentially. Reducing our inventory balance to more normalized levels remains a key priority, and we expect to reduce inventory levels further in Q3 as we deploy a large AI system order booked earlier this year. Q2 cash conversion cycle was positive twenty six days, up twenty one days from last quarter.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

This was driven by a decrease in days payable due to higher vendor payments and lower inventory purchases and an increase in days receivable due to later shipment timing in the quarter offset by a decrease in days of inventory due to higher shipments. We expect sequential improvements in free cash flow, partially driven by an improved cash conversion cycle over the back half of the year. We returned $171,000,000 through dividends and $50,000,000 via share repurchases to common shareholders, respectively. Our results this quarter reflect the importance of balancing investments in innovation and growth with disciplined cost management to improve our long term profitability and to drive shareholder value. Last quarter, we announced a cost reduction program aimed at streamlining our workforce and reducing our cost structure.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

This was an important first step but only part of broader actions we're undertaking. This program is largely centered around a 5% workforce reduction that we expect to complete largely by year end. We are on track to achieve our savings goals expected for FY 2025. We ended the quarter with a headcount just under 59,000 the lowest we have seen as an independent company. We are reducing management layers and flattening our organization because Flatter is faster, enabling swifter decision making and improving agility across functions.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Today, we are accelerating those cost efforts through Catalyst, a comprehensive series of initiatives designed to accelerate revenue growth while also driving structural cost savings. These initiatives fall into four key categories and include the prior workforce cost reduction program we announced last quarter, in addition to efforts around operational efficiency, optimizing our portfolio, and using AI across our business. These workforce optimization efforts are covered by the existing $350,000,000 in charges we announced last quarter, and any resulting benefits are included in our FY '20 '20 '5 guide. We will update you at our Securities Analyst Meeting in October when we provide our fiscal twenty six outlook. As part of Catalyst, we want to make it easier to do business with us, simplifying our offerings, streamlining our sales processes, and aligning our team internally to be more responsive to customers' needs.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

In addition, we will be leveraging AI to improve efficiency across our business. As an example, we are adopting an agentic AI initiative as part of our campaign. Within finance, HPE and Deloitte co developed Zuora AI CFO Insights agents built on NVIDIA's advanced AI stack and deployed on our own HPE private cloud AI platform. This strategic move will transform our executive reporting. We're turning data into actionable intelligence, accelerating our reporting cycles by approximately 50% and reducing processing costs by an estimated 25%.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Our ambition is clear: a leaner, faster, and more competitive organization. Nothing is off limits. We are focused on rethinking the business, not just reducing our costs, but transforming the way we operate. We'll keep you regularly updated on our progress. Before addressing our outlook, given the evolving and uncertain state of global trade policy, I want to provide a brief update to our tariff outlook.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Our initial full year guidance of a $07 impact to earnings reflected our best estimate based on tariffs in place on March 4, net of our mitigation efforts. And as mentioned, we absorbed zero two dollars in the second quarter. Looking out to the second half of the year, we are reducing our tariff impact by $01 to $02 as the ninety day pause currently in effect for most tariffs expires on July 9. For fiscal twenty twenty five, we are tightening our guidance due to improved visibility into the second half of the year. We now expect constant currency revenue growth of seven to 9%.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We estimate currency impacts of about 20 basis points improved from our prior view as FX becomes less of a headwind due to a weaker outlook for the US dollar. By segment, we expect to continue Intelligent Edge to grow mid single digits, Hybrid Cloud to grow high single digits, and that server will grow low double digits. We are maintaining our outlook for non GAAP gross margin to be below 30% for the full year with Q4 exiting the year above that. In Q3, we expect operating expense to increase sequentially due to the higher marketing expenses associated with our annual Discover event, but is expected to step back down in Q4 to a level more consistent with Q2. We expect full year non GAAP operating margin above 9% at the midpoint as we see sequential improvements in the second half of fiscal twenty twenty five, exiting the year approaching normal ranges.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

By segment, we continue to expect hybrid cloud operating margin in the mid to high single digits Intelligent Edge to remain in the mid-twenty percent range and Server to improve sequentially, exiting the year with an operating margin around 10%. We now expect OI and E will constitute a net benefit of approximately $15,000,000 We are narrowing our fiscal year twenty twenty five non GAAP diluted net earnings per share outlook to $1.78 to $1.9.03 of this is related to a lower than expected net tariff expense and 1¢ is related to operational improvements. We are guiding GAAP diluted net earnings per share between $0.30 and $0.42 inclusive of the goodwill impairment charge previously mentioned, versus our previous GAAP guidance range of approximately $1.15 to $1.35 Our outlook for free cash flow of approximately $1,000,000,000 remains intact. For Q3, we expect revenue will be between 8,200,000,000.0 and $8,500,000,000 For Intelligent Edge, we expect revenue will continue to improve sequentially as the networking market recovery progresses, with operating margin remaining in the mid-twenty percent range. For hybrid cloud, we expect revenue to increase slightly sequentially with operating margin in the mid single digits, improved sequentially and year over year.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

For server, we forecast a sequential increase at mid teens rate reflecting a strong double digit increase in AI systems revenue due to a large AI deal we expect to ship in Q3. Server operating margin is expected to improve sequentially, falling in the mid to high single digits range due to the corrective actions we took offsetting a higher mix of AI systems revenue. We expect GAAP diluted net earnings per share to be between $0.24 and $0.29 and non GAAP diluted net earnings per share to be between $0.40 and $0.45 We expect the second half of fiscal twenty twenty five will be seasonally stronger than the first half, with free cash flow rebounding sequentially in Q3 primarily due to the continued reduction in inventories and increased net income. With that, I'll open the floor for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. And your first question today will come from Amit Daryanani with Evercore. Please go ahead.

[Amit Daryanani, Senior Managing Director - Equity Research at Evercore]

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. I guess maybe just to talk about April numbers came in better than expected, especially on the server side where you had a few issues last quarter, I think both on the x86 and the AI side. If you could just talk about what's needed at this point for server margins to go from 5% to 10% plus by year end, it would be helpful just to understand and get an update on what issues have been resolved versus what still needs to be tackled as you go forward to get to that 10% number? And then Antonio, maybe somewhat related to all this, since we last spoke, have been public articles around an activist engagement. So I'd love to understand sort of how do you think about it and maybe talk about your priorities or options in the event Juniper doesn't close? Because I think you've talked a fair bit about what the model can look like with Juniper in there. Thank you.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Well, thanks Amit and good afternoon. So as I said in my remarks, Marie, we addressed the execution challenges we had in Q1. If you recall, we spoke about three issues. It was the cost in our pricing, it was the discounting and it was the inventory, which obviously was elevated and that drove incremental expenses. So we feel that we have addressed those issues with very targeted actions that will continue to deliver results as we go through the back half of the year.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So examples of these actions are on the pricing side, new analytics, so that gives us a better insight of what comes next in our pipeline and how to price in discount those. Very, very stringent discounting empowerment throughout the organization. And then on the inventory side, look, over quarter we reduced inventory by $500,000,000 We believe that the remaining actions will be addressed through the back half as we convert more revenue. In Q3, we're going to convert a very large deployment that we expect to be completed here soon. And so we are confident that those actions will help us return to the 10% exit on operating margins in Q4.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And also clearly that's also substantiated also by the incremental actions we have taken on costs. So we are confident about that. That's why we have raised the bottom end of our guide. And we believe we have line of sight to that. In terms of your second question, look, we don't comment on specific communication that we have with our shareholders.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Our Board and I engage a number of shareholders and we have an ongoing dialogue, on a range of issues and opportunities. We value the constructive input from all of them. We believe today the fastest path to increase in Athleta shareholder value is the Juniper transaction. But we also have seen and explore a number of other options if the Juniper deal doesn't happen and that inclusive of capital return and other portfolio actions, but we are not going to discuss those until we see the outcome of the Juniper transaction. And we are look, we are within five weeks of the trial and we hope to get that result and start the integration of the asset.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Very good. Thank you, Amit. Next question please.

[Operator]

And your next question will come from Tim Long with Barclays. Please go ahead.

[Tim long, Managing Director at Barclays]

Thank you. Antonio, I was hoping you could elaborate a little bit. You talked about, I think, the pipeline exiting Q2 being a little stronger than exiting Q1. You also mentioned a multiplier on the AI backlog. So I'm assuming that's part of the answer.

[Tim long, Managing Director at Barclays]

But can you just kind of run through the businesses and give us a little bit color on that pipeline, whether it's product driven or geographic? What is driving that upside in pipeline compared to last quarter?

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. Thanks, Tim. Look, we saw a strength in the pipeline across the portfolio. So let's start with AI. Obviously, you saw that we recorded one third of our orders in AI being now enterprise driven.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So that's a very strong momentum there. It's driven by our servers, both ProLiant and Cray with GPUs and private cloud AI. Then in Sovereign, we continue to see a very strong engagement. We have a number of opportunities in the making and we hope to close some of those here in the short term. And then in the traditional service provider, right, and model builders, obviously those are large deployments.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

As I said, we are closing now a deployment, which will be one of the largest GP 200 deployments so far in the world. And we participate there where it makes sense, because obviously there is a margin aspect and a working capital aspect. But there also we have multiples of our current backlog, which is now $3,200,000,000 So it went up $100,000,000 quarter over quarter. So that's on AI. And so we continue to see very strong momentum.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

In the hybrid cloud, I'm very, very pleased with the momentum we have in storage with our Letra and P portfolio. Booking more than 75% order growth for four consecutive quarters is pretty stunning. But as you know, a portion of that order gets deferred once we convert to revenue because there is a SaaS piece connected to the CapEx. In the short term is a revenue headwind, in the long term is a profit accretion. But the demand for Alletra is very strong because we introduced a very unique disaggregated architecture with multi protocol support.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We also introduced integrated offerings with NVIDIA. And at the same time, each of these aspects, whether it's the server or the storage gets integrated in a private cloud portfolio. In addition, the virtualization part of the private cloud is very, very strong. Marie stated that there are now a 1,000 customer logged in our pipeline and now they're going through POCs. One customer Downforce has already committed to transition 75% of their estate.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

That's predefined number. And we see tremendous opportunities ahead. And then GreenLake continued to do extremely well with 47% in subscription services growth and that's through both storage growth and intelligent edge growth and the private cloud growth. And then in networking, the market, I believe has recovered, right? Three consecutive quarters of order demand.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We see that in Wi Fi seven transition, in the upgrade cycle of switching in campus and branch. And now we start seeing growth in data center switching because we have unique position there. But once we close the Juniper deal, we expect that growth to continue to accelerate. So we saw strong solid momentum across the three areas of the portfolio, balance across geography. Actually, I will say Europe was very solid.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Now Europe, obviously, now you have the euro strengthening, which is helpful from a revenue perspective. But at the same time, we need to see what happens after the summer, which normally tends to be a reset in many ways. But so far so good. I'm very encouraged. And here in three weeks, we're going to make a series of new announcements, which I believe will strengthen the pipeline.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Very good. Thank you. Operator, next question please.

[Operator]

Your next question today will come from Meta Marshall with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

[Meta Marshall, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley]

Great. Thanks. Just wanted to get a sense of kind of where you're seeing the most AI server traction kind of right now. And then maybe just on the second piece, just about improving kind of the margin profile of the storage business, realize kind of Elektra doing quite well, but just kind of how what you see as the path towards kind of improving the margin profile there with your own IP products? Thanks.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes, Meta. So on the server side, look, it's a combination depending on the customer segment. When you think about these large service providers or model builders, they tend to consume a large amount of compute is very compute driven, meaning accelerating computing. But that comes with networking and other things that you have to surround around infrastructure, which obviously direct liquid cooling, which we have been talking about since last October is now a necessity. And we believe HPE is uniquely positioned both from an IP perspective and manufacturing capability at scale perspective.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

It takes an enormous amount of work and we have learned a lot in these deployments in the last few months. But then as you go to sovereign, it's a mix of compute and storage and as well as supercomputing. Let's not forget supercomputing continue to be a very important element. But clearly there is 15 to 20 countries, they're all trying to deploy AI factories for sovereign reasons and the like. And they are again, very compute centric, but there are other type of infrastructure you can attach to it.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And then enterprise is all the both, right? And what we see in enterprise is time to value, is not time to market. Time to value meaning, I don't need to spend a lot of time gluing together infrastructure. I need to deploy infrastructure at the speed that can deliver value to the enterprise. And this is where storage and compute are very tightly coupled with networking that really brings all of that together.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And the software piece of that is the most essential component. And that's why GreenLake resonates because once you are in GreenLake, you already have access to all the software. And that's the co engineering work we have done with NVIDIA, bringing their software and HP software in an environment where they can accelerate time to value. So that's what we have seen. In terms of storage margin, Marie, you want to

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

take Yes. Look, I'd say, Meta, we do expect to see the margins as you know, we reflect that in our hybrid cloud segment. And through the course of the year, we do expect to see the margins actually turned up towards the end of the year to the high single digits. So you'll see some of that favorability basically flow through by the end of Q4.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Okay. Thanks, Meta. Next question, please.

[Operator]

And your next question today will come from Simon Leopold with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

[Victor Chiu, Equity Research Associate - Telecom & Technology at Raymond James Financial]

Hi, guys. This is Victor Chiu in for Simon Leopold. Has Blackwell demand helped to bridge the recovery in AI servers and contribute to the improved line of sight that you noted earlier? And I guess, what steps have you taken to ensure that you have optimized inventory levels around AI servers going forward?

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. I mean, in Q1, I said that the demand, the orders we booked shifted very rapidly to Blackwell. And that clearly is now what we've seen. And the way we drive this process now, remember for some of the customers, not all of them, it's prepayment. And that means that unless we prepay us, we don't buy inventory.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So that's point number one. And point number two is that on the previous generation of inventory has been decreased dramatically. There's still demand, but our exposure on the older inventory is significantly lower and we are adequately reserved at this point in time.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Okay. Thank you. Next question please.

[Operator]

And your next question will come from Samik Chatterjee with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Samik Chatterjee, Managing Director at JP Morgan]

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I guess maybe, Antonio, on the general purpose servers, if I can ask you just related to one of your competitors has talked about more specifically sort of calling out weaker trends in general focused servers in The U. S. Specifically.

[Samik Chatterjee, Managing Director at JP Morgan]

Maybe if you can sort of highlight what trends you're seeing there in terms of customer autos, independent of the execution improvement that you're seeing in that business? And maybe just a follow-up there. I know you're reiterating the 10% margin target for the total server segment for 4Q, but that's sort of the reiteration from the quarter ago, but that is sort of lower headwind than what you anticipated ninety days ago. So you automatically assume that the outlook is a bit better than what you thought ninety days ago? Thank you.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. I'm really sorry. I have a very hard time hearing you. Maybe I don't know if you can reconnect with a better line. I caught a little bit about North America, think it was.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Look, we in North America, we didn't see any slowdown at this point in time. I mean, was steady as we normally have seen. We have a strong engagement with our partner network. And so I didn't see that at this point in time. In fact, I will argue that our monthly order demand was stronger than the previous two months.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So that's what I saw. And then the second part, honestly, couldn't hear. You got it, Amiri?

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

I think somebody heard you just talk about the server operating margins. So let me just sort of walk you through how to think about those margins through the year. As we look sequentially, we do expect to see those margins improve. So as we walk from Q2 to Q3 and Q3 to Q4, Q3 is going to be driven as Antonio mentioned earlier by the mix of server revenue which is going to be skewed by that large AI order that we expect to ship in Q3. And as you correctly said, as we move from Q3 to Q4, we do expect Q4 to exit the year around 10%.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

That's consistent with what we've said before. So I just want to clarify that for you as well, please.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Great. Okay. Thank you, Samik. Operator, next question please.

[Operator]

Your next question today will come from Ananda Baruah with Loop Capital. Please go ahead.

[Ananda Baruah, Research Analyst at Loop Capital]

Yes. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the question. Yes, just I guess, Antonio, as we get going through the Blackwell ramp, since you're at the front end and you're already starting to notice it in your business, is it reasonable to anticipate higher highs, increased highs in both systems revenue over time and in backlog as well as we go through the cycle. You saw this through the hopper cycle, and it would make sense that you would see it through the Blackwell cycle.

[Ananda Baruah, Research Analyst at Loop Capital]

But just want to get your thoughts on that as well. Thanks. That's it for me. Thanks.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. No, thank you, Anat. Look, this business is lumpy, right? So you're going to have periods of very high orders if you close one or two very large deals with service providers. And then obviously then after that is the revenue recognition, because I can tell you from what I learned in this deployment, it takes several months to build it, ship it, install it and make it productive.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And so, that said though, as we go from the 200 to the 300, I think the mix is going to shift a little bit between the Grace Blackwell three hundred with Blackwell only 300 and that has to do with performance and has to do with the use case between training and inferencing. But I will say that as I think about these large deals that are in the pipeline, pretty much all of them are 200 with a loss shifting already to 300. And that will take time to see it from orders to revenue because remember the 300 is coming in the back half of twenty twenty five or early twenty twenty six at scale.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Okay. Thank you, Ananda. Operator, next question please.

[Operator]

And your next question today will come from Michael Ng with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

[Mike Ng, Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for the question. First, I wanted to ask about the comments around federal and state and local education spending. Any visibility into when improves and when you get better line of sight into that? And then second, just on the higher than expected AI systems revenue in the quarter.

[Mike Ng, Analyst at Goldman Sachs]

I think you mentioned some of the AI outperformance driven by improved customer readiness. Could you just provide a little bit more texture around that? Is that driven by a greater need to do these AI deployments? Is it component availability? Any thoughts there would be great. Thank you.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. I mean, on The U. S. Federal spend, So clearly, there was a period of time where the government had to enact their plans. But remember, not every vendor participates uniformly across the federal.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

We are unique in many ways because we provide systems at large scale, sometime in classified environments, sometimes in non classified environments. And that has not slowed down in the context of what we see. However, there are areas of the government where there was a pause, whether it is reviewing current deals that the government needed an incremental approval to get it done. But we expect that to solve itself as we go in the back half. And we have a very solid pipeline related to The U.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

S. Federal business. Now remember, we are also a large provider of supercomputing capacity. That's very important. And we already see new opportunities in the pipeline as we go through the refresh of that.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

The second part of the question was, I'm trying to think about the deal timing of, for some of these deals.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

No, look, I mean, there is the timing of the deals and the deployment, right, we believe are aligned to the customer needs. So when we think about these deployments, we see an acceleration of deployments because in enterprise they either put it in a colo or they put it in their own data center. And so what we see customers is modernizing the data center, especially because they are focused on data sovereignty and compliance, free up the space and bring the infrastructure that they need to do ragging or fine tuning or inferencing. And then in service providers, look, there is a lot of build outs, but they tend to be very straightforward unless you work a very, very large deployment. But in terms of components availability, we have now seen a constraint in components availability to the current generation.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

As we go to the 300, it's a different story.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And I'd just add that specifically in Q2 that we saw that incremental AI revenue, it was really related to what Antonio said around customer readiness. So just thinking about it as from a timing perspective, that's the way to think about that AI revenue in Q2. Thank you, Mike. Next question please.

[Operator]

And your next question will come from David Vaught with UBS. Please go ahead.

[David Vogt, Managing Director at UBS Group]

Great. Thanks guys for taking my question. So maybe, Antonio, can I dig in on sort of the industry drivers and the demand backdrop? Because I thought I heard you say that demand seemed to be relatively solid even in the April. And I guess what I'm trying to understand is July, the quarter guide looks relatively strong.

[David Vogt, Managing Director at UBS Group]

But if I kind of take it in the context of the full year, we're looking for, I think, a relatively modest sequential growth in October. Now recognize the backdrop is murky and the comp is tough on a year over year. Can you maybe just expand on why you're being a little bit more conservative than I thought you would be given the trends in October? And then maybe just for Marie. On the workforce reduction plan, I would imagine that the vast majority of that is skewed towards the server business.

[David Vogt, Managing Director at UBS Group]

If not, please correct me, but I'm trying to think through what are the margin impacts on server as we exit this year when the plan is complete and you're exiting at a 10% rate. I mean does that suggest that we can get back to the level of margins previously before this most recent downdraft because of some execution issues? I'm thinking more of like fiscal 'twenty four. Thank you.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So why don't I take the second part of your question first on the server margins and the restructuring plan. So first of all, just pleased to say we're on track in terms of our savings goals. What we said on the last call that we had 20% of savings of the $350,000,000 are in the year. At this point, overall, I think I said in my prepared remarks, we've actually seen really good progress against the headcount. So absolutely on track to achieve the goals we had.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

With respect to how to tie that to server margin, that plan is actually more than server. It's actually enterprise wide. So I just want to correct your question because it's not specifically aimed at server. It's aimed at just actually the entire company. We did announce Catalyst also as part of the statements I made as well earlier.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So as we think about server margins, we'll let you know because we've got SAM coming up in October. So we'll give you further color around how to think about those margins for '26. So that's it on the server piece. And then in terms of just the revenue linearity in the back half of the year, as I said in my prepared remarks, we do expect to ship a very large AI deal in Q3. So as a result of that, we're going to see a more non seasonal pattern in Q3 and then we'll continue to see revenue growth from a year on year basis into Q4, but it's going to be moderated because of the fact we've got that large conversion of that large AI system deal in Q3.

[Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

So that's how you should be thinking about the revenue seasonality in the back half and respectively between Q3 and Q4.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

And I will say for Q4, right, look, there is timing related to some of the deals. But if you recall, in Q4 twenty twenty four, we had an exceptional Q4 with a significant year over year revenue growth. And despite that, we expect year over year revenue growth in Q4. But to Marie's point, the seasonality between Q3 and Q4 is a little bit different because this very large acceptance we are working right now as we speak.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Okay. Thank you. And operator, this will be our last question please.

[Operator]

And your final question today will come from Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

[Aaron Rakers, Managing Director & Technology Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Yes. Thanks for taking the question. I want to just kind of dig a little bit deeper into the AI server competitive landscape. Antonio, if I look at your closest competitor, I think their new order number was like $12,000,000,000 You guys talked about $1,000,000,000 So I'm curious, should we kind of think about HP as a little bit different in terms of how you're going to market, what segments you really want to focus on maybe relative to your peers? Or has there been any kind of changes in the competitive landscape in terms of deals that you'll go after and maybe walk away from?

[Aaron Rakers, Managing Director & Technology Analyst at Wells Fargo]

I'm just curious how you would kind of compare fairly different numbers in terms of the order momentum we're seeing on these AI servers. Thank you.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Sure, Aaron. Look, we are focused in all segments of the market, but we participate with discipline where we see path to gross margin accretion and obviously working capital that eventually translates into free cash flow. And look, what I saw there is probably a couple of large opportunities that we decided not to participate. And if you look at their results, it's fair to say that they actually on the profitability, we will see what they're going to do. But my view is that in enterprise, we're all in and we see that momentum.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

In sovereign, we're all in and we see the momentum as you see more in the next few weeks. And then in service provider, we'll participate where we believe we can sustain that 10% operating margin and still sustain our revenue as we go forward.

[Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Antonio, any closing comments?

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Yes. No, look, I know we probably have more questions, but I know we have follow-up calls, with each of you. Look, we delivered a solid Q2. I'm very pleased with the fifth consecutive quarter of year over year revenue growth. We see the actions we have taken in server already delivering the results that we want and we don't see that in the next two quarters.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

Networking continue to do very well. And we are very pleased with the hybrid cloud. But as always, there is more work to do. I believe we have line of sight to our new guide and commitments and it's all about driving the execution, which is sustained by an amazing portfolio with amazing innovation. And I hope you will pay attention to what we have to say in three weeks at HPE Discover.

[Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company]

You will be very impressed about the number of new innovation we're going to continue to bring in the market across networking, hybrid cloud and AI. And we hope next time we speak, we're going to have an answer on the Juniper network deal. So thank you again for your time today.

[Operator]

Conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Paul Glaser, Head of Investor Relations
• Antonio Neri, CEO, President & Director
• Marie Myers, Executive VP & CFO

Analysts

• Amit Daryanani, Senior Managing Director - Equity Research at Evercore
• Tim long, Managing Director at Barclays
• Meta Marshall, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley
• Victor Chiu, Equity Research Associate - Telecom & Technology at Raymond James Financial
• Samik Chatterjee, Managing Director at JP Morgan
• Ananda Baruah, Research Analyst at Loop Capital
• Mike Ng, Analyst at Goldman Sachs
• David Vogt, Managing Director at UBS Group
• Aaron Rakers, Managing Director & Technology Analyst at Wells Fargo