Q3 2026 HP Inc Earnings Call

August 26, 2026

Operator: Well, good day everyone, and welcome to the third quarter 2026 HP Inc. earnings conference call. My name is Lisa, and I will be your conference moderator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question and answer session towards the end of the conference. Should you need assistance during the call, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Alok Julka, Global Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Operator: Well, good day everyone, and welcome to the third quarter 2026 HP Inc. earnings conference call. My name is Lisa, and I will be your conference moderator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question-and-answer session towards the end of the conference. Should you need assistance during the call, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Alok Juyal, Global Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Speaker #1: Well, good day, everyone, and welcome to the third quarter 2026 HP Inc. earnings conference call. My name is Lisa, and I'll be your conference moderator for today's call.

Speaker #1: At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question-and-answer session toward the end of the conference. Should you need assistance during the call, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by 0.

Speaker #1: As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Alok Juyal, Global Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations.

Speaker #1: Please go ahead.

Speaker #2: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to HP's third quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me today are Bruce Broussard, HP's interim Chief Executive Officer, and Karen Parkhill, HP's Chief Financial Officer.

Alok Julka: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to HP's third quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me today are Bruce Broussard, HP's Interim Chief Executive Officer, and Karen Parkhill, HP's Chief Financial Officer. Before handing the call over to Bruce, let me remind you that this call is a webcast, and replay will be available on our website shortly after the call for approximately one year. We posted the earnings release and accompanying slide presentation on our investor relations webpage at investor.hp.com. As always, elements of this presentation are forward-looking and are based on our best view of the world and our business as we see them today. For more detailed information, please see disclaimers in the earnings materials relating to forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. For a discussion of some of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, please refer to HP's SEC reports, including our most recent Form 10-K.

Alok Juyal: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to HP's Q3 2026 earnings conference call. With me today are Bruce Broussard, HP's Interim Chief Executive Officer, and Karen Parkhill, HP's Chief Financial Officer. Before handing the call over to Bruce, let me remind you that this call is a webcast, and replay will be available on our website shortly after the call for approximately one year. We posted the earnings release and accompanying slide presentation on our investor relations webpage at investor.hp.com. As always, elements of this presentation are forward-looking and are based on our best view of the world and our business as we see them today. For more detailed information, please see disclaimers in the earnings materials relating to forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. For a discussion of some of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, please refer to HP's SEC reports, including our most recent Form 10-K.

Speaker #2: Before handing the call over to Bruce, let me remind you that this call is a webcast, and a replay will be available on our website shortly after the call, for approximately one year.

Speaker #2: We posted the earnings release and accompanying slide presentation on our investor relations webpage at investor.hp.com. As always, elements of this presentation are forward-looking and are based on our best view of the world and our business as we see them today.

Speaker #2: For more detailed information, please see the disclaimers in the earnings materials relating to forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. For a discussion of some of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, please refer to HP's SEC reports, including our most recent Form 10-K.

Speaker #2: HP 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 now, and could differ materially from the amounts ultimately reported in HP's SEC filings.

Alok Julka: HP 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 now and could differ materially from the amounts ultimately reported in HP's SEC filings. During this webcast, unless otherwise specifically noted, all comparisons are year-over-year comparisons with the corresponding year-ago period. References to HP's channel inventory refer to the tier 1 channel inventory, and market share references are based on calendar quarter information. In addition, unless otherwise specified, all financial measures discussed today are non-GAAP, and EPS refers to non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share. Please refer to the tables in today's earnings release and the accompanying slide presentation on our website for reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. With that, I will now turn the call over to Bruce.

Alok Juyal: HP 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 now and could differ materially from the amounts ultimately reported in HP's SEC filings. During this webcast, unless otherwise specifically noted, all comparisons are year-over-year comparisons with the corresponding year-ago period. References to HP's channel inventory refer to the tier one channel inventory, and market share references are based on calendar quarter information. In addition, unless otherwise specified, all financial measures discussed today are non-GAAP, and EPS refers to non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share. Please refer to the tables in today's earnings release and the accompanying slide presentation on our website for reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. With that, I will now turn the call over to Bruce.

Speaker #2: During this webcast, unless otherwise specifically noted, all comparisons are year-over-year comparisons with the corresponding year-ago period. References to HP's channel inventory refer to the Tier 1 channel inventory, and market share references are based on calendar quarter information.

Speaker #2: In addition, unless otherwise specified, all financial measures discussed today are non-GAAP, and EPS refers to non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share. Please refer to the tables in today's earnings release and the accompanying slide presentation on our website for reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Speaker #2: With that, I will now turn the call over to Bruce.

Speaker #3: Thank you, Alok. And thanks, everyone, for joining us today. I'm pleased to share that we delivered record third-quarter revenue and continue to exceed expectations on EPS.

Bruce Broussard: Thank you, Alok, and thanks everyone for joining us today. I am pleased to share that we delivered record third quarter revenue and continue to exceed expectations on EPS. We are also laying a strong foundation for the AI era and are building momentum. Our strategic execution, robust commodity mitigation plan, and relentless commitment to innovation are helping us advance our business and enable our customers to successfully navigate this most significant technology shift. Today, I will share our third quarter highlights, discuss the innovations we are bringing to market, and touch on how we are managing the current environment. Before I do, I know some of you are interested in an update on the CEO search.

Bruce Broussard: Thank you, Alok, and thanks, everyone, for joining us today. I am pleased to share that we delivered record third quarter revenue and continue to exceed expectations on EPS. We are also laying a strong foundation for the AI era and are building momentum. Our strategic execution, robust commodity mitigation plan, and relentless commitment to innovation are helping us advance our business and enable our customers to successfully navigate this most significant technology shift. Today, I will share our third quarter highlights, discuss the innovations we are bringing to market, and touch on how we are managing the current environment. Before I do, I know some of you are interested in an update on the CEO search.

Speaker #3: We're also laying a strong foundation for the AI era and are building momentum. Our strategic execution, robust commodity mitigation plan, and relentless commitment to innovation are helping us advance our business and enable our customers to successfully navigate this most significant technology shift.

Speaker #3: Today, I'll share our third quarter highlights, discuss the innovations we are bringing to market, and touch on how we are managing the current environment.

Speaker #3: Before I do, I know some of you are interested in an update on the CEO search. I am sure you can appreciate that I am unable to share details or a timeline, but the search is proceeding well and we continue to make good progress on finding the right next leader for HP.

Bruce Broussard: I am sure you can appreciate that I am unable to share details or a timeline, but the search is proceeding well, and we continue to make good progress on finding the right next leader for HP. In the meantime, having spent the past several months leading the company day to day, I have developed deeper perspective on HP. Four observations stand out. First, we need to continue advancing our operating infrastructure to become better connected, AI-enabled, and data-driven, improving productivity while delivering better experiences for our customers, partners, and employees. Second, we will continue advancing our devices to be AI leading by bringing more computing to the edge where context is created. This will enable more intelligent devices that anticipate needs and proactively solve problems.

Speaker #3: In the meantime, having spent the past several months leading the company day to day, I've developed a deeper perspective on HP. Poor observations stand out.

Speaker #3: First, we need to continue advancing our operating infrastructure to become better connected, AI-enabled, and data-driven, improving productivity while delivering better experiences for our customers, partners, and employees.

Speaker #3: Second, we will continue advancing our devices to be AI-leading by bringing more computing to the edge, where context is created. This will enable more intelligent devices that anticipate needs and proactively solve problems.

Speaker #3: Third, we need to accelerate our evolution toward integrated solutions across our broad portfolio of devices, creating differentiated offerings that deliver greater value to our customers and expanding recurring revenue opportunities.

Bruce Broussard: Third, we need to accelerate our evolution towards integrated solutions across our broad portfolio of devices, creating differentiated offerings that deliver greater value to our customers while expanding reoccurring revenue opportunities. Lastly, we provide greater strategic clarity around where we choose to play and allocate capital, resources, and capabilities against those priorities with focus and discipline. HP has tremendous assets, one of the most iconic brands in technology, a strong global footprint, sophisticated supply chain, deep commercial relationships, and a talented team. There are meaningful opportunities to make HP stronger, more cohesive, and more effective. We are taking action now to strengthen the foundation, sharpen our priorities, and improve execution so that when our next CEO steps in, they can build on that momentum and lead HP into its next chapter of growth and value creation. Let me get to our results.

Speaker #3: And lastly, we provide greater strategic clarity around where we choose to play and allocate capital, resources, and capabilities against those priorities, with focus and discipline.

Speaker #3: HP has tremendous assets—one of the most iconic brands in technology, a strong global footprint, a sophisticated supply chain, deep commercial relationships, and a talented team.

Speaker #3: And there are meaningful opportunities to make HP stronger, more cohesive, and more effective. We are taking action now to strengthen the foundation, sharpen our priorities, and improve execution.

Speaker #3: So that when our next CEO steps in, they can build on that momentum and lead HP into its next chapter of growth and value creation.

Speaker #3: Let me get to our results. This quarter, we delivered $15.7 billion in revenue—a record Q3 for HP. This represents an increase of 13% and our ninth consecutive quarter of top-line growth.

Bruce Broussard: This quarter, we delivered $15.7 billion in revenue, a record Q3 for HP. This represents an increase of 13% and our ninth consecutive quarter of top-line growth, driven by another strong quarter in Personal Systems, while Print results were in line with our expectations. We executed on our commitments and accelerated our key growth areas, which collectively grew 46% year over year and faster than our core. We continue to take share in high-value segments while managing commodity headwinds with our mitigation playbook, enabling us to deliver EPS above our expectations, even when excluding a tariff refund benefit, while also delivering strong free cash flow. In short, we did what we said we would do. In Personal Systems, we achieved our 10th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, up 18% year over year, driven by solid growth across both commercial and consumer segments.

Speaker #3: Driven by another strong quarter and personal systems, while print results were in line with our expectations. We executed on our commitments and accelerated our key growth areas, which collectively grew 46% year over year, and faster than our core.

Speaker #3: We continue to take share in high-value segments while managing commodity headwinds with our mitigation playbook, enabling us to deliver EPS above our expectations—even when excluding a tariff-free fund benefit.

Speaker #3: While also delivering strong free cash flow. In short, we did what we said we would do. In Personal Systems, we achieved our 10th consecutive quarter of revenue growth, up 18% year over year, driven by solid growth across both commercial and consumer segments.

Speaker #3: We are particularly pleased with the continued strength of our AI PC portfolio, which continues to grow and is still expected to be 50% of our shipment mix by the end of this fiscal year.

Bruce Broussard: We are particularly pleased with the continued strength of our AI PC portfolio, which continued to grow and is still expected to be 50% of our shipment mix by the end of this fiscal year. At the same time, consistent with our strategy, we delivered double-digit revenue expansion in our key growth areas, including advanced compute solutions and workforce solutions. We also continue to capture share in high-value categories, including premium PC, returning us to share leadership in the Americas. Overall, these results show customers continue to invest in the hardware and solutions they need to run AI their work habits. Turning to Print, revenue was down 2% year over year in what continues to be a competitive market. We remain focused on pricing discipline and the placement of profitable units.

Speaker #3: At the same time, consistent with our strategy, we delivered double-digit revenue expansion in our key growth areas, including Advanced Compute Solutions and Workforce Solutions.

Speaker #3: We also continue to capture share in high-value categories, including premium PC, returning us to share leadership in the Americas. Overall, these results show customers continue to invest in the hardware and solutions they need to run AI hardware cabinets.

Speaker #3: Turning to print, revenue was down 2% year over year in what continues to be a competitive market. We remain focused on pricing discipline and placement of profitable units.

Speaker #3: We said we would double down on the big-tank market, and we did, gaining another 4 points of share this quarter. Industrial printing delivered its 12th straight quarter of revenue growth, as customers continued to leverage our award-winning hardware portfolio.

Bruce Broussard: We said we would double down on big tank markets, and we did, gaining another 4 points of share this quarter. Industrial printing delivered its 12th straight quarter of revenue growth as customers continued to leverage our award-winning hardware portfolio to drive their digital workflows and grow their businesses. Across both segments, we are balancing near-term execution with long-term investment and shifting our portfolio towards high value and more profitable categories. Turning to innovation, this quarter, we unveiled advancements designed to help our customers thrive in the AI era. We believe the future of AI is hybrid. That means AI will operate both in the cloud and increasingly at the edge. For customers already seeing the cost of cloud-based AI add up, the economics alone makes edge AI compelling. It can also improve security, latency, and strengthen data governance.

Speaker #3: To drive their digital workflows and grow their businesses. Across both segments, we are balancing near-term execution with long-term investment and shifting our portfolio toward high-value and more profitable categories.

Speaker #3: Turning to innovation, this quarter we unveiled advancements designed to help our customers thrive in the AI era. We believe the future of AI is hybrid.

Speaker #3: That means AI will operate both in the cloud and, increasingly, at the edge. For customers already seeing the cost of cloud-based AI add up, the economics alone make edge AI compelling.

Speaker #3: It can also improve security, latency, and strengthen data governance. To make edge AI a reality, we are working with customers and ecosystem partners to build platforms that extend data center-class AI capabilities to the edge.

Bruce Broussard: To make edge AI a reality, we are working with customers and ecosystem partners to build platforms that extend data center class AI capabilities to the edge. By enabling GPU sharing through HP ZCentral Remote Boost and integrating it with our WXP software layer, security, and device features, we are making traditional cloud AI capabilities available locally. Building advanced AI locally has too often meant specialized infrastructure, large budgets, and complex setups. We are changing that. With our HP ZBook Fury, we bring data center class AI to the desk side so teams can build and run frontier scale models and always-on agents locally. The response since we first showed this direction at Computex has been clear.

Speaker #3: By enabling GPU sharing through HP ZBoost, and integrating it with our WXP software layer, security, and device features, we are making traditional cloud AI capabilities available locally.

Speaker #3: Building advanced AI locally has too often meant specialized infrastructure, large budgets, and complex setups. We are changing that. With our HP ZGX Fury, we bring data center-class AI to the desk side, so teams can build and run frontier-scale models and always-on agents locally.

Speaker #3: The response since we first showed this direction at Computex has been clear: customers want local AI they can own. Over the next month, we will extend this momentum into more of the form factors people already carry.

Bruce Broussard: Customers want local AI they can own. Over the next month, we will extend this momentum into more of the form factors people already carry, with the memory and power those on-device models actually need. A leading automotive company is using HP solutions to bring visual AI and inferencing directly to its manufacturing line, helping improve quality inspections, performance, and economics. We see the same potential in many other sectors that require on-site compute performance, strong security, and the most cost-effective ways to manage increasingly complex AI models. This creates significant opportunities in areas like retail, public sector, and healthcare. We are also advancing what PCs can do as edge devices. In the agentic era, PCs are becoming partners that understand your needs and help meet them. So we are reimagining what a personal computer can do with our new HP OmniBook Ultra 16, powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark.

Speaker #3: With the memory and power those on-device models actually need, a leading automotive company is using HP solutions to bring visual AI and inferencing directly to its manufacturing line.

Speaker #3: Helping improve quality, inspections, performance, and economics. We see the same potential in many other sectors that require on-site compute performance, strong security, and the most cost-effective ways to manage increasingly complex AI models.

Speaker #3: This creates significant opportunities in areas like retail, public sector, and healthcare. We are also advancing what PCs can do as edge devices. In the agentic era, PCs are becoming partners that understand your needs and help meet them.

Speaker #3: So we are reimagining what a personal computer can do with our new OmniBook Ultra 16, powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark. It brings the compute needed to build and run sophisticated AI models and personal agents to a thin, mainstream mobile PC.

Bruce Broussard: It brings the compute needed to build and run sophisticated AI models and personal agents to a thin, mainstream mobile PC. Our HP OmniDesk mini desktop combines full-sized performance with a compact design and built-in AI capabilities. In print, we are already delivering tangible customer value with AI. In June, we expanded our flagship AI-powered print experience, Precise Print with HP AI, to more than 150 countries. By intelligently removing unnecessary web content before printing, Precise Print with HP AI helps customers reduce paper usage by up to 38% and ink consumption up to 47%. Our HP Neo AI companion brings agentic AI to industrial print operations and is gaining momentum. HP Neo was awarded the 2026 European Digital Press Association Award for Best Software Agent in the Print Industry AI category. This underscores our commitment to intelligent, data-driven production ecosystems with built-in remote remediation capabilities and, importantly, solving uptime problems for our printer service customers.

Speaker #3: And our OmniDesk Mini Desktop combines full-sized performance with a compact design and built-in AI capabilities. In print, we're already delivering tangible customer value with AI.

Speaker #3: In June, we expanded our flagship AI-powered print experience, Precise Print, to more than 150 countries. By intelligently removing unnecessary web content before printing, Precise Print helps customers reduce paper usage by up to 38% and ink consumption by up to 47%.

Speaker #3: Our HP Neo AI companion brings agentic AI to industrial print operations and is gaining momentum. Neo was awarded the 2026 European Digital Press Association Award for Best Software Agent in the Print Industry AI category.

Speaker #3: This underscores our commitment to intelligent, data-driven production ecosystems with built-in remote remediation capabilities, and, importantly, solving uptime problems for our printer service customers. In Q3, we also signed a three-year, $100 million strategic agreement with RRD, one of the world's leading print service providers.

Bruce Broussard: In Q3, we also signed a three-year, $100 million strategic agreement with RRD, one of the world's leading print service providers. This reflects our shared vision to accelerate AI and industrial automation in print production. Succeeding at the edge also requires intelligent ways to manage the technology portfolio. Work moves across PCs, meeting rooms, collaboration tools, printers, and other endpoints. Our WXP platform helps CIOs track and manage fleets of connected devices and applications. This quarter, we integrated HP Poly Lens and collaboration capabilities into WXP, giving IT teams greater visibility across PCs, printers, and collaboration devices. By bringing together insights that were previously isolated across different environments, organizations and channel partners can turn data into actionable intelligence, improve workforce experiences, lower costs, and establish a governance layer. WXP was named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools.

Speaker #3: This reflects our shared vision to accelerate AI and industrial automation in print production. Succeeding at the edge also requires intelligent ways to manage the technology portfolio.

Speaker #3: Work moves across PCs, meeting rooms, collaboration tools, printers, and other endpoints. Our WXP platform helps CIOs track and manage fleets of connected devices and applications.

Speaker #3: This quarter, we integrated HP Poly Lens and collaboration capabilities into WXP, giving IT teams greater visibility across PCs, printers, and collaboration devices. By bringing together insights that were previously isolated across different environments, organizations and channel partners can turn data into actionable intelligence, improve workforce experiences, lower costs, and establish a governance layer.

Speaker #3: WXP was named the leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools. We believe the future of computing will be increasingly intelligent and integrated.

Bruce Broussard: We believe the future of computing will be increasingly intelligent and integrated, with devices anticipating user needs, executing tasks seamlessly, and connecting traditionally separate cloud and desktop environments. By bringing AI capabilities closer to users, these devices can provide the context required for more effective reasoning and inference. AI at the edge offers meaningful benefits for our customers while creating significant incremental growth opportunities for HP and the broader industry. We believe HP is uniquely positioned to lead this evolution through our broad portfolio of products and services, trusted brand, presence in more than 180 countries, and robust innovation pipeline. Together, these strengths create substantial opportunities for growth. At HP, we consider ourselves customer zero, using our own business as a proving ground for the products and solutions we develop. Like our customers, HP is benefiting today from localized AI capabilities using edge inferencing across our business.

Speaker #3: With devices anticipating user needs, executing tasks seamlessly, and connecting traditionally separate cloud and desktop environments, by bringing AI capabilities closer to users, these devices can provide the context required for more effective reasoning and inference.

Speaker #3: AI at the edge offers meaningful benefits for our customers while creating significant incremental growth opportunities for HP and the broader industry. We believe HP is uniquely positioned to lead this evolution through our broad portfolio of products and services, trusted brand, presence in more than 180 countries, and robust innovation pipeline.

Speaker #3: Together, these strengths create substantial opportunities for growth. At HP, we consider ourselves Customer Zero, using our own business as a proving ground for the products and solutions we develop.

Speaker #3: Like our customers, HP is benefiting today from localized AI capabilities, using edge inferencing across our business. For example, in our Singapore production facility, teams are using our ZBook workstations running an Opus model to enhance quality assurance and detection capabilities on the manufacturing line.

Bruce Broussard: For example, in our Singapore production facility, teams are using our ZBook workstations running an Opus model to enhance quality assurance and detection capabilities on the manufacturing line. This past quarter, we scaled our work with OpenAI. Through OpenAI Frontier, we are integrating AI across the customer and partner experiences, the HP Store, digital support, WXP Telemetry, employee productivity, and software development. Early deployments are already helping teams accelerate engineering workflows, enhance security analysis, and automate routine tasks while maintaining HP's high standards for data governance and security. We are just getting started with OpenAI and expect to share more as we turn our pilots into scaled capabilities that create business value. Let me now focus on the external supply and cost environment, which remains complex. We continue to effectively execute our mitigation plan.

Speaker #3: This past quarter, we scaled our work with OpenAI. Through OpenAI Frontier, we are integrating AI across the customer and partner experiences, the HP Store, digital support, WXP telemetry, employee productivity, and software development.

Speaker #3: Early deployments are already helping teams accelerate engineering workflows, enhance security analysis, and automate routine tasks while maintaining HP's high standards for data governance and security.

Speaker #3: We are just getting started with OpenAI and expect to share more as we turn our pilots into scaled capabilities that create business value. Let me now focus on the external supply and cost environment, which remains complex.

Speaker #3: We continue to effectively execute our mitigation plan. We remain confident in our memory and storage supply availability for this fiscal year, and our focus is on our needs into next year and beyond.

Bruce Broussard: We remain confident in our memory and storage supply availability for this fiscal year and are focused on our needs into next year and beyond. The enhanced operating model we are building is designed to compound over time, creating a more connected, process-led enterprise that can serve customers with greater consistency, speed, and predictability. What we are building is not a short-term efficiency program or a situational response, but a fundamental, stronger operating model that better connects planning, decision-making, and execution across the enterprise. We already see early signs of this working in areas such as order delivery predictability, improved accuracy rates leading to better conversion on incoming orders. With solid mitigation efforts already in place and additional steps planned, we remain confident about HP's upside potential, both in the near term and long term, when the constraints the industry face begins to lift.

Speaker #3: The enhanced operating model we are building is designed to compound over time, creating a more connected, process-led enterprise that can serve customers with greater consistency, speed, and predictability.

Speaker #3: What we are building is not a short-term efficiency program or a situational response, but a fundamentally stronger operating model that better connects planning, decision-making, and execution across the enterprise.

Speaker #3: We already see early signs of this working in areas such as order delivery, predictability, improved accuracy rates leading to better conversion, and incoming orders.

Speaker #3: With solid mitigation efforts already in place and additional steps planned, we remain confident about HP's upside potential, both in the near-term and long-term, as the constraints the industry faced begin to lift.

Speaker #3: Looking ahead, we remain focused on being the trusted resource for customers in navigating a dynamic environment. In Personal Systems, we see opportunity for increasing commercial workloads, AI PCs, advanced compute, the broader shift towards hybrid AI, and the growing need for context-aware use cases at the edge.

Bruce Broussard: Looking ahead, we remain focused on being the trusted resource for customers in navigating a dynamic environment. In Personal Systems, we see opportunity for increasing commercial workloads, AI PCs, advanced compute to the broader shift towards hybrid AI, and growing need for contact square use cases at the edge. In Print, we will continue to place profitable hardware units, grow big tank and subscription businesses, and invest in industrial applications. Our teams will continue to manage memory storage and geopolitical pressures through pricing, sourcing, supply chain actions, productivity, and portfolio choices. The opportunity ahead is significant. AI is moving from isolated experimentation into day-to-day workflows, devices, and environments. HP is well-positioned to be the customer's trusted edge AI platform, helping them make the most of that transition. In closing, I'm proud of how the HP team performed this quarter.

Speaker #3: In Print, we will continue to place profitable hardware units, grow Big Tank and subscription businesses, and invest in industrial applications. Our teams will continue to manage memory, storage, and geopolitical pressures through pricing, sourcing, supply chain actions, productivity, and portfolio choices.

Speaker #3: The opportunity ahead is significant. AI is moving from isolated experimentation into day-to-day workflows, devices, and environments. HP is well positioned to be the customers' trusted edge AI platform, helping them make the most of that transition.

Speaker #3: In closing, I'm proud of how the HP team performed this quarter. We delivered strong Personal Systems growth, managed through a challenging print market, and continued to drive innovation that will shape how work is done.

Bruce Broussard: We delivered strong Personal Systems growth, managed through a challenging print market, and continued to drive innovation that will shape how work is done. Thank you to our employees for their commitment and to our customers, partners, and investors for the trust you continue to place in HP. With that, I'll turn it over to Karen.

Speaker #3: Thank you to our employees for their commitment, and to our customers, partners, and investors for the trust you continue to place in HP. With that, I'll turn it over to Karen.

Speaker #1: Thank you, Bruce, and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased with our third quarter results, which reflect solid execution and continued progress against the priorities we outlined at the start of the year.

Karen Parkhill: Thank you, Bruce, and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased with our Q3 results, which reflect solid execution and continued progress against the priorities we outlined at the start of the year. For the third consecutive quarter, we delivered better-than-expected top-line growth and EPS at the top or above our guidance range, underscoring the discipline of our teams in a dynamic operating environment. We drove yet another quarter of robust revenue growth with continued momentum in Personal Systems and key growth areas. Double-digit sequential growth in Personal Systems also supported strong free cash flow in the quarter. As Bruce mentioned, we are continuing to drive our four-pillar plan to mitigate rising input costs.

Speaker #1: For the third consecutive quarter, we delivered better-than-expected top-line growth, and EPS at the top or above our guidance range, underscoring the discipline of our teams in a dynamic operating environment.

Speaker #1: We drove yet another quarter of robust revenue growth, with continued momentum in Personal Systems and key growth areas. Double-digit sequential growth in Personal Systems also supported strong free cash flow in the quarter.

Speaker #1: And at the same time, as Bruce mentioned, we are continuing to drive our four-pillar plan to mitigate rising input costs. These ongoing efforts—to secure supply, shape demand, implement targeted cost reduction, and take disciplined pricing action—all continue to ramp.

Karen Parkhill: These ongoing efforts to secure supply, shape demand, implement targeted cost reduction, and take disciplined pricing action all continue to ramp and have enabled us to deliver OP rates in line with our guidance, even after excluding the favorable impact of tariff refunds received in the quarter. Let me walk you through more details on our Q3 performance. We delivered 13% revenue growth or 11% in constant currency, with growth across all regions. By geography, strong Personal Systems performance drove constant currency revenue up 22% in APJ, 10% in EMEA, and 5% in the Americas as customers continued to upgrade their devices to manage more demanding workloads. Our gross margin at 18.8% was down year-over-year as expected, driven by higher commodity costs and increased mix from Personal Systems. Pricing, strong growth from our key growth areas, and tariff refunds partially offset these headwinds.

Speaker #1: and have enabled us to deliver OP rates in line with our guidance, even after excluding the favorable impact of tariff refunds received in the quarter.

Speaker #1: Now, let me walk you through more details on our third quarter performance. We delivered 13% revenue growth, or 11% in constant currency, with growth across all regions.

Speaker #1: By geography, strong Personal Systems performance drove constant currency revenue up 22% in APJ, 10% in EMEA, and 5% in the Americas, as customers continued to upgrade their devices to manage more demanding workloads.

Speaker #1: Our gross margin, at 18.8%, was down year-over-year as expected, driven by higher commodity costs and increased mix from Personal Systems. Pricing, strong growth from our key growth areas, and tariff refunds partially offset these headwinds.

Speaker #1: Strong revenue growth, along with our focus on disciplined cost management, helped to drive operating expenses down as a percent of revenue, while still enabling important investments in innovation, product promotion, and our people.

Karen Parkhill: Strong revenue growth along with our focus on disciplined cost management helped to drive operating expenses down as a percent of revenue while still enabling important investments in innovation, product promotion, and our people. All in, our operating margin was 6.5%, and when excluding the benefit of tariff refunds, this was in line with our expectations. Below operating profit, higher cash balances contributed to lower financing costs in the quarter and led to better-than-expected OI&E. Our net earnings per share at $0.83 grew 11% and includes $0.11 related to tariff refunds. Importantly, without the tariff benefit, we still delivered EPS above the top end of our guidance range. Now let's turn to segment performance. In Personal Systems, we delivered record Q3 revenue of $11.8 billion, up 18% in a stronger than expected market.

Speaker #1: All in, our operating margin was 6.5%. When excluding the benefit of tariff refunds, this was in line with our expectations. Below operating profit, higher cash balances contributed to lower financing costs in the quarter.

Speaker #1: And led to better-than-expected other income and expense. Our net earnings per share, at $0.83, grew 11%, and includes $0.11 related to tariff refunds.

Speaker #1: Importantly, without the tariff benefit, we still delivered EPS above the top end of our guidance range. Now, let's turn to segment performance. In Personal Systems, we delivered record third-quarter revenue of $11.8 billion, up 18% in a stronger-than-expected market.

Speaker #1: While volume was down as expected, our continued prioritization of higher value unit placements, repricing for higher commodity costs, and services expansion more than offset the volume headwinds.

Karen Parkhill: While volume was down as expected, our continued prioritization of higher value unit placements, repricing for higher commodity costs and services expansion more than offset the volume headwind. Consistent with our strategy, we gained share in the premium PC categories and delivered strong performance from our key growth areas, with double-digit revenue growth in AI PCs, advanced compute solutions, hybrid systems, and workforce solutions. From a segment perspective, we also delivered double-digit revenue growth in both commercial, up 22%, and consumer, up 10%, driven by disciplined pricing actions and favorable mix. Aligned with our focus on higher value segments, commercial represented over 70% of our Personal Systems revenue in the quarter. PS operating margin of 4.6% was below our long-term range, as expected, and down year over year from higher commodity costs and variable compensation, which we worked to partially offset with repricing actions and other cost reductions.

Speaker #1: And, consistent with our strategy, we gained share in the premium PC categories and delivered strong performance from our key growth areas, with double-digit revenue growth in AI PCs, advanced compute solutions, hybrid systems, and workforce solutions.

Speaker #1: From a segment perspective, we also delivered double-digit revenue growth in both Commercial, up 22%, and Consumer, up 10%, driven by disciplined pricing actions and favorable mix.

Speaker #1: Aligned with our focus on higher-value segments, commercial represented over 70% of our Personal Systems revenue in the quarter. PS operating margin of 4.6% was below our long-term range, as expected.

Speaker #1: And down year-over-year from higher commodity costs and variable compensation, which we worked to partially offset with repricing actions and other cost reductions. Turning to Print.

Karen Parkhill: Turning to Printing. As expected, revenue was down 2%, or 4% in constant currency, on lower supplies and hardware volumes in what remained a competitive pricing environment. These headwinds were offset in part by key growth area contributions, including continued momentum in industrial print, fueled by increased usage, double-digit growth in 3D, and a continued ramp of subscribers to our All-In Plan. By customer segment, consumer revenue declined 2% with lower traditional printer volume offset in part by higher ASPs. Aligned with our strategy, we continued to increase our penetration of the tank printer market, delivering 42% unit growth in this important profit upfront category and gaining share both year over year and sequentially. In commercial, revenue was down 1%, driven by lower volume and unfavorable mix.

Speaker #1: As expected, revenue was down 2%, or 4% in constant currency, on lower supplies and hardware volumes in what remained a competitive pricing environment. These headwinds were offset in part by key growth area contributions.

Speaker #1: This includes continued momentum in industrial print, fueled by increased usage, double-digit growth in 3D, and a continued ramp of subscribers to our All-in Plan. By customer segment, consumer revenue declined 2%, with lower traditional printer volume, offset in part by higher ASPs.

Speaker #1: Aligned with our strategy, we continued to increase our penetration of the tank printer market, delivering 42% unit growth in this important profit-upfront category, and gaining share both year-over-year and sequentially.

Speaker #1: In Commercial, revenue was down 1%, driven by lower volume and unfavorable mix. We saw particular softness in the office market in North America and China.

Karen Parkhill: We saw particular softness in the office market in North America and China, and our results reflect our focus on placing profitable units in an aggressive pricing environment. In line with expectations, supplies revenue was down 4% in constant currency, impacted in part by headwinds in the Middle East. All in, Printing operating margin was 18.1%, up roughly 1 percentage point year over year, reflecting the favorable impact of tariff refunds and pricing action. Excluding the benefit of tariff refunds, Printing operating margin was in line with our guidance at the low end of our long-term range. Now let me move to cash flow and capital allocation. We generated over $1.7 billion in cash from operations and roughly $1.6 billion in free cash flow in Q3 on the strength of Personal Systems' performance.

Speaker #1: And our results reflect our focus on placing profitable units in an aggressive pricing environment. In line with expectations, Supplies revenue was down 4% in constant currency.

Speaker #1: Impacted in part by headwinds in the Middle East. All in, Print operating margin was 18.1%, up roughly 1 point year-over-year, reflecting the favorable impact of tariff refunds and pricing actions.

Speaker #1: Excluding the benefit of tariff refunds, Print operating margin was at the low end of our long-term range. Now, let me move to cash flow and capital allocation.

Speaker #1: We generated over $1.7 billion in cash from operations, and roughly $1.6 billion in free cash flow in Q3, on the strength of Personal Systems performance.

Speaker #1: And as planned, we paid down slightly more than $500 million in debt maturities due in the quarter. Through disciplined working capital management and robust Personal Systems growth, we have driven year-to-date free cash flow of more than $2.5 billion.

Karen Parkhill: As planned, we paid down slightly more than $500 million in debt maturities due in the quarter. Through disciplined working capital management and robust Personal Systems growth, we have driven year-to-date free cash flow of more than $2.5 billion, well ahead of our typical seasonality. Through both dividends and share repurchase, we returned nearly $600 million to shareholders in the quarter and over $1.5 billion year to date. We ended the quarter within our target leverage range. As always, we remain committed to returning approximately 100% of our free cash flow to shareholders over time, as long as our gross leverage remains under 2 times and there aren't better return opportunities. Looking ahead to the remainder of our fiscal year, we continue to expect input costs to rise, putting near-term pressure on our operating margins, particularly in Personal Systems.

Speaker #1: Well ahead of our typical seasonality. Through both dividends and share repurchases, we returned nearly $600 million to shareholders in the quarter, and over $1.5 billion in the quarter within our target leverage range.

Speaker #1: As always, we remain committed to returning approximately 100% of our free cash flow to shareholders over time, as long as our gross leverage remains under 2x and there aren't better return opportunities.

Speaker #1: Looking ahead to the remainder of our fiscal year, we continue to expect input costs to rise, putting near-term pressure on our operating margins, particularly in Personal Systems.

Speaker #1: We are factoring that into our Q4 outlook, along with the traction we are making on our cost mitigation plans. By segment, in Personal Systems, we remain aligned with industry experts, projecting the PC unit TAM to decline high teens year-over-year for the second half of the calendar year.

Karen Parkhill: We are factoring that into our Q4 outlook, along with the traction we are making on our cost mitigation plans. By segment, in Personal Systems, we remain aligned with industry experts, projecting the PC unit TAM to decline high teens year over year for the H2 of the calendar year. Given the impact of commodity-driven price increases, we expect below seasonal revenue performance in Q4. That said, we do expect year over year revenue growth in the quarter, driven by pricing actions, share gains in premium categories, attach of higher margin offerings, and increased penetration of AI PCs as more AI workloads move to edge devices. We continue to expect memory and storage costs to increase further as a percentage of the bill of materials.

Speaker #1: Given the impact of commodity-driven price increases, we expect below-seasonal revenue performance in Q4. That said, we do expect year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter.

Speaker #1: Driven by pricing actions, share gains in premium categories, a touch of higher-margin offerings, and increased penetration of AIPCs as more AI workloads move to edge devices.

Speaker #1: We continue to expect memory and storage costs to increase further as a percentage of the bill of materials. And as we signaled last quarter, we expect our Q4 margin to be below Q3 levels.

Karen Parkhill: As we signaled last quarter, we expect our Q4 margin to be below Q3 levels and then to sequentially improve as we look ahead into FY27. In Printing, our outlook is aligned with industry expectations for a mid-single-digit decline in the hardware market in the H2 of the calendar year. We will continue building on our share gain progress in tank printers through portfolio extensions and targeted promotions while completing the rollout of our latest AI-enabled laser portfolio in office by the end of the fiscal year. For Q4, we expect print revenue to be in line with historical seasonality. Excluding the impact of any tariff refunds in the quarter, we expect operating margins in the lower half of our long-term range, reflecting our focus on incremental hardware unit placement and near-term input cost pressures, which we are actively working to mitigate.

Speaker #1: And then to sequentially improve as we look ahead into FY27. In Print, our outlook is aligned with industry expectations for a mid-single-digit decline in the hardware market in the second half of the calendar year.

Speaker #1: We will continue building on our share gain progress in tank printers through portfolio extensions and targeted promotions, while completing the rollout of our latest AI-enabled Laser portfolio in Office by the end of the fiscal year.

Speaker #1: For Q4, we expect print revenue to be in line with historical seasonality. And excluding the impact of any tariff refunds in the quarter, we expect operating margins in the lower half of our long-term range.

Speaker #1: Reflecting our focus on incremental hardware unit placement and near-term input cost pressures, which we are actively working to mitigate. Beyond the segments, we expect Q4 OINE and corporate to be similar to Q3 levels.

Karen Parkhill: Beyond the segments, we expect Q4 OI&E and corporate operations to be similar to Q3 levels. All in, based on our strong performance in the quarter, we are increasing our outlook for the fiscal year. We now expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of $3.19 to $3.29, up from our previous range of $2.90 to $3.10, and including a $0.19 favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. For Q4 specifically, we expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of $0.69 to $0.79, including an $0.08 favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. Given our improved earnings performance and strong free cash flow in Q3, we are also increasing our outlook for free cash flow to be in the range of $3 to $3.2 billion for the fiscal year.

Speaker #1: All in, based on our strong performance in the quarter, we are increasing our outlook for the fiscal year. We now expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of $3.19 to $3.29.

Speaker #1: Up from our previous range of $2.90 to $3.10, and including a $0.19 favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. For Q4 specifically, we expect diluted net earnings per share to be in the range of $0.69 to $0.79.

Speaker #1: Including an $0.08 favorable impact from estimated tariff refunds. And given our improved earnings performance and strong free cash flow in Q3, we are also increasing our outlook for free cash flow to be in the range of $3.0 to $3.2 billion for the fiscal year.

Speaker #1: Looking beyond this fiscal year, as Bruce said, we see meaningful opportunity as workloads continue shifting to the edge, and we are well positioned to lead this transition through our trusted devices, software, and services.

Karen Parkhill: Looking beyond this fiscal year, as Bruce said, we see meaningful opportunity as workloads continue shifting to the edge, and we are well-positioned to lead this transition through our trusted devices, software, and services. In Personal Systems, we plan to continue to invest in innovation across AI PCs, workstations, and high-value solutions with a disciplined focus on gaining share in premium categories. We expect input costs to continue to rise, but at a slower rate than we have experienced in FY 26. And of course, we remain focused on mitigating the impact of this dynamic commodities environment and expect to bring our PS OP rate back into our long-term range as quickly as possible in FY27.

Speaker #1: In Personal Systems, we plan to continue to invest in innovation across AI PCs, workstations, and high-value solutions, with a disciplined focus on gaining share in premium categories.

Speaker #1: We expect input costs to continue to rise, but at a slower rate than we have experienced in fiscal '26. And, of course, we remain focused on mitigating the impact of this dynamic commodities environment.

Speaker #1: And expect to bring our PSOP rate back into our long-term range as quickly as possible in FY27. In Print, we will remain focused on protecting operating profit through share gains and profit upfront tank printers, expansion in consumer subscriptions, strengthening our position in Office through AI-enabled innovation, sustaining momentum in Industrial Graphics, and maintaining cost discipline.

Karen Parkhill: In Print, we will remain focused on protecting operating profit through share gains and profit upfront tank printers, expansion in consumer subscriptions, strengthening our position in office through AI-enabled innovation, sustaining momentum in industrial graphics, and maintaining cost discipline. I will share more on our FY27 outlook in our Q4 earnings call. In closing, we are pleased with the performance in the quarter and the progress we are making against our strategic and financial priorities. We have a strong track record of execution and remain confident in our ability to drive continued growth and value ahead. Turning to Q&A. Given the continued dynamic PC environment, we have invited Ketan Patel, head of Personal Systems, to join us. With that, I would like to hand it back to the operator and open the call for your questions.

Speaker #1: I will share more on our fiscal '27 outlook in our Q4 earnings call. In closing, we are pleased with the performance in the quarter and the progress we are making against our strategic and financial priorities.

Speaker #1: We have a strong track record of execution and remain confident in our ability to drive continued growth and value ahead. Turning to Q&A, given the continued dynamic PC environment, we have invited Katin Patel, Head of Personal Systems, to join us.

Speaker #1: With that, I would like to hand it back to the operator and open the call for your questions.

Speaker #2: Thank you. And we will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your touchtone phone.

Operator: Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. To withdraw your question, press star one again. We also ask that you please limit yourself to one question and a single follow-up. Our first questioner today will be Amit Daryanani from Evercore ISI.

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Speaker #2: And our first questioner today will be Amit Daryanani from Evercore ISI.

Speaker #3: Yep. Thanks, Bob. Good afternoon, everyone. I guess I have a question and a follow-up, but maybe just to start with—Karen, could you spend a little bit of time on the Personal Systems assumptions for Q4?

Amit Daryanani: Yep. Thanks a lot. Good afternoon, everyone. I guess I have a question and a follow-up, but maybe just to start with, Karen, could you spend a little bit of time on the Personal Systems assumptions for Q4? I think you started implying PS revenues will be sub-seasonal, but you should still see year-over-year growth in the model. I think that's a fair way to think about it, but I'd love to understand, do you see that fiscal Q4 trend line of units being down high teens, but revenue still growing by a few points persisting through FY27, or is that more in Q4?

Speaker #3: I think you started implying PS revenues will be sub-seasonal, but you should still see year-over-year growth in the model. I think that's a fair way to think about it, but I'd love to understand—do you see that fiscal Q4 trend line of units being down quite a bit, but revenues still growing by a few points?

Speaker #3: Persisting through fiscal 27, or is that more in Q4?

Speaker #1: Yeah, thanks for the question, Amit. On Q4, our outlook reflects the industry's view that PC units will decline in the high teens in the second half, as pricing actions pressure demand.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah, thanks for the question, Amit. On Q4, our outlook reflects the industry's view that PC units will decline high teens in the H2 as pricing actions pressure demand. As we said, though, we do still expect to drive year-over-year revenue growth. We expect it to be down quarter over quarter, but growing year over year with a richer mix of higher value categories, including premium and commercial, and consumer PCs, AI PCs, workstations, and attach offerings, along with pricing, and all of that to more than offset the lower units. I would also note that we are maintaining our discipline too, prioritizing profitable growth and edge AI-driven demand rather than chasing a low-margin share. Our comments on revenue growth relate to Q4. It is too early for us to be giving FY27 guidance. We will be doing that on our Q4 call.

Speaker #1: As we said, though, we do still expect to drive year-over-year revenue growth. We expect it to be down quarter-over-quarter, but growing year-over-year, with a richer mix of higher-value categories.

Speaker #1: Including premium, commercial, and consumer PCs, AI PCs, workstations, and attach offerings, along with pricing—all of that—to more than offset the lower units.

Speaker #1: I would also note that we're maintaining our discipline too, prioritizing profitable growth and edge AI-driven demand rather than chasing low-margin share. Our comments on revenue growth relate to Q4.

Speaker #1: It's too early for us to give FY27 guidance. We'll be doing that on our Q4 call.

Speaker #3: Fair enough. I figure I can try nonetheless.

Amit Daryanani: Fair enough. I figured I can try nonetheless. On memory, in your prepared, in the press release, you folks talked about meaningful improvements in memory supply, higher fulfillment rates. Can you just talk about what is that just you getting better allocations or there is more spot availability? Just what do those things mean for HP Inc? From your perspective, where do you think PS margins would trough as you go forward? Thank you.

Speaker #4: On memory, in your prepared remarks in the press release, you folks talked about meaningful improvements in memory supply and higher fulfillment rates. Can you just talk about whether that's just you getting better allocations, or if there's more spot availability?

Speaker #4: Just what do those things mean for HP Inc.? And from your perspective, where do you think PS margins will trough as you go forward?

Speaker #4: Thank you.

Speaker #1: Yeah, thanks for the question. On supply, we are getting the supply that we need to fill our customer demands, so that has not been an issue.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah, thanks for the question. On supply, we are getting the supply that we need to fill our customer demands, so that has not been an issue. As we look ahead in Q4 at our margins, I would say that we said that we expected Q4 margins to be a low point last quarterly call. We continue to believe that, but we have high confidence that it will improve from there. As we work through this volatile environment, I would say we have not only been transparent, but we have also shown that we can deliver what we say we will do. We signaled at the beginning of the year that margins would be increasingly impacted as we move through the fiscal year.

Speaker #1: And as we look ahead to Q4 and our margins, I would say that we indicated Q4 margins would be a low point on our last quarterly call.

Speaker #1: We continue to believe that, but we have high confidence that it will improve from there. As we've worked through this volatile environment, I would say we've not only been transparent, but we've also shown that we can deliver what we say we will do.

Speaker #1: And we signaled at the beginning of the year that margins would be increasingly impacted as we move through the fiscal year. Costs have continued to rise, and we are working through the benefit of the lower-cost inventory on our balance sheets that we had more in the first half.

Karen Parkhill: Costs have continued to rise, and we are working through the benefit of the lower cost of inventory on our balance sheets, that we had more in the H1. Now you are seeing inventory that is carrying higher costs working through our P&L in the back half. At the same time, we have been successfully implementing our mitigation plan. We have secured supply, we have qualified new suppliers, we have reshaped demand and configuration, and we have taken targeted cost actions and repriced with discipline. As we said before, some of those actions move quickly, while others, like product redesign and platform optimization on the cost reduction side and long-term contract revisions on the pricing side, take some lead time.

Speaker #1: And now you're seeing inventory that is carrying higher costs working through our P&L in the back half. But at the same time, we've been successfully implementing our mitigation plan.

Speaker #1: We've secured supply. We've qualified new suppliers. We've reshaped demand and configuration. And we've taken targeted cost actions and repriced with discipline. And as we said before, some of those actions move quickly.

Speaker #1: While others, like product redesign and platform optimization on the cost-reduction side, and long-term contract revisions on the pricing side, take some lead time.

Speaker #1: We also expect margin benefit from the areas where we're prioritizing growth—in the premium categories, in AIPCs, and higher-value attach and edge AI workloads.

Karen Parkhill: We also expect margin benefit from the areas where we're prioritizing growth in the premium categories, in AI PCs and higher value attach and edge AI workloads, and all of that contributes to improved overall margins. On input costs, we said we still expect them to rise, in FY27 and in Q4, but at a slower rate than we've seen to date. Our focus, as I said, is just going to be to recover PS margins back to the long-term range as quickly as possible while also continuing to drive profitable growth.

Speaker #1: And all of that contributes to improved overall margins. So, on input costs, we said we still expect them to rise in FY27 and in Q4.

Speaker #1: But at a slower rate than we've seen to date. So our focus, as I said, is just going to be to recover PS margins back to the long-term range as quickly as possible.

Speaker #1: while also continuing to drive profitable growth.

Speaker #2: The next question comes from Mark Newman, Bernstein.

Operator: The next question comes from Mark Newman, Bernstein.

Speaker #4: Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Putting up on the PS margin, on the timing of memory cost increases, is the inventory the lower cost memory lower cost memory inventory benefit done, or in the Q3 that you just printed, is there still some cost benefit?

Mark Newman: Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Following up on the PS margin. On the timing of memory cost increases, is the lower cost memory inventory benefit done? Or, in the Q3 that you just printed, is there still some cost benefit? I'm just trying to figure out on the cost line, are there more headwinds for you to normalize to the market price of memory? Or is the upcoming cost increase just based on the market increases of memory? Related to that, on pricing for PCs, obviously these results are implying quite considerable price increases, which is leading to the strong revenue growth. But I'm trying to understand, because some of your revenue is coming from channel relationships, and those channel relationships may be a bit of a lag in terms of how quickly you can increase prices.

Speaker #4: I'm just trying to figure out, on the cost line, are there more headwinds for you to normalize to the market price of memory, or is the upcoming cost increase just based on the market increases of memory?

Speaker #4: And related to that, on pricing for PCs, obviously these results are implying quite considerable price increases, which is leading to the strong revenue growth.

Speaker #4: But I'm trying to understand, is it because some of your revenue is coming from channel relationships, and those channel relationships may have a bit of a lag in terms of how quickly you can increase prices?

Speaker #4: So, are you caught up to where you want to be for pricing? Or do some of those relationships with your channel partners still need catching up due to whatever terms?

Mark Newman: Are you caught up to where you want to be for pricing, or some of those relationships with some of your channel partners still need catching up due to whatever terms? In other words, I'm trying to figure out, is there some more upside to pricing or should we expect you to be pricing in line with the market going forward? Thank you.

Speaker #4: So, in other words, I'm trying to figure out: is there some more upside to pricing, or should we expect you to be pricing in line with the market going forward?

Speaker #4: Thank you.

Speaker #1: Sure, Mark. I'll start answering that long question, and I'll ask Kate to chime in if she's got anything to add. I would say, first on the PS margin, yes, we were benefiting earlier in the year from that lower cost of inventory that was on our balance sheet and flowing through to the P&L.

Karen Parkhill: Sure, Mark. I will start answering that long question, and I will ask Ketan to chime in if he has got anything to add. I would say, first on the PS margin, yes, we were benefiting earlier in the year from that lower cost of inventory that was on our balance sheets and flowing through to the P&L. While we still have a mix of lower cost of inventory, I would say that benefit is largely behind us. We now have higher cost of inventory that is working through our P&L, as I said. On the cost side, we have other things that we are doing to help drive costs down, things like product redesign and platform optimization. Those things take some time, and we will begin to start seeing the benefit of some of those things going forward.

Speaker #1: While we still have a mix of lower cost of inventory, I would say that benefit is largely behind us. And we now are higher cost of inventory that's working through our P&L, as I said.

Speaker #1: But on the cost side, we have other things that we are doing to help drive costs down. Things like product redesign and platform optimization—those things take some time.

Speaker #1: Time. And we'll begin to start seeing the benefit of some of those things going forward. That is one of the levers that will help us improve our margin as we move forward.

Karen Parkhill: That is one of the levers that will be helping us improve our margin as we move forward. On pricing, we have been increasing pricing. We expect to continue to increase pricing as input costs rise. We use that as a last lever after we have focused on demand shaping and product reconfiguration and taking costs out everywhere that we can. We use pricing as the last lever. I will let Ketan add anything.

Speaker #1: On pricing, we have been increasing pricing. We expect to continue to increase pricing as input costs rise. We use that as a last lever, after we have focused on demand shaping and product reconfiguration, and taking costs out everywhere that we can.

Speaker #1: We use pricing as the last lever, so I'll let Kate add anything.

Speaker #4: Thank you, Karen. You covered it very well on a few of the pricing questions. I would just add one thing—that we have several go-to-market options, including doing business with online channels.

Ketan Patel: Thank you, Karen. You covered it very well on a few of the pricing questions. I just add one thing, that we have several go-to-market options, including, we do business with online channels, we do business with our regular channel partners, enterprise customers, and we also have contractual end user deals. All of them have different durations for reflecting updated pricing. The lag can range from immediately to a few months before price changes will be fully reflected for all the customers. This is all post-mitigations, which Karen already spoke about. So definitely we will continue to work on some of those actions. On top of it, I would say that while pricing is one of the levers, some of the actions which we have taken, let me quote a couple of examples which are helping us navigate the situation.

Speaker #4: We do business with our regular channel partners, enterprise customers, and we also have contractual end-user deals. All of them have different durations for reflecting updated pricing.

Speaker #4: So the lag can range from immediately to a few months before price changes will be fully reflected for all the customers. And this is all post-mitigations, which Karen already spoke about.

Speaker #4: So, definitely, we'll continue to work on some of those actions. On top of it, I would say that while pricing is one of the levers, some of the actions which we have taken—let me go to a couple of examples—are helping us navigate the situation.

Speaker #4: This robust supply-informed demand planning and demand-shaping muscle, which we are leveraging through our WXP Workforce Experience Platform insights to identify key configurations for specific customer workloads, is helping customers get the best value at the right cost.

Ketan Patel: This robust supply-informed demand planning and demand-shaping muscle, which we are leveraging through our WXP, Workforce Experience Platform insights to identify key configurations for specific customer workloads, is helping customers with the best value with the right cost. The second example I would quote is we have aggressive design for cost initiative, which has led to highly optimized cost for specific products for specific countries, which gives us structural capability to serve customer needs, again, at the right value and cost.

Speaker #4: And the second example I would quote is, we have an aggressive design-for-cost initiative, which has led to highly optimized costs for specific products in specific countries. This gives us structural capability to serve customer needs again at the right value and cost.

Speaker #2: The next question is from Krish Sankar, TD Cowen.

Operator: The next question is from Krish Sankar, TD Cowen.

Speaker #5: Hi there. Thanks for taking my questions. This is Stephen Cohen on behalf of Krish. The first one that I had is actually for Bruce. Bruce, previously during the 3rd of March, we talked about a 50% AI PC mix target by year-end.

[Analyst] (TD Cowen): Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. This is Steven calling on behalf of Krish. The first one I had is actually Bruce. Bruce, previously during remarks, you talked about a 50% AI PC mix target by year-end. I am just kind of curious, in terms of the configurations of those AI PCs, does that include a lot of AI workstations, and what is sort of the attach rate of discrete AI accelerators within that AI PC mix?

Steven Chin: Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. This is Steven calling on behalf of Krish. The first one I had is actually Bruce. Bruce, previously during remarks, you talked about a 50% AI PC mix target by year-end. I am just kind of curious, in terms of the configurations of those AI PCs, does that include a lot of AI workstations, and what is sort of the attach rate of discrete AI accelerators within that AI PC mix?

Speaker #5: I'm just kind of curious, in terms of the configurations of those AIPCs—does that include a lot of AI workstations? And what's sort of the attach rate of discrete AI accelerators within that AIPC mix?

Bruce Broussard: Well, thank you for the question. It is really oriented to the AI PCs in totality, not the workstation. Just to provide that context. Relative to the attach rate, the attach rate on the AI PCs are very similar to the attach rate that we see in other parts of the PC business, and that is traditionally around one-third of a 30% margin kind of opportunity for us. On top of that, we also see an opportunity to continue to add solutions to our AI PCs, and where that is oriented to is really things like the HP IQ, which will be coming out later this year. Device security is another area where we look at, and even in our areas of Printing where we have AI-enabled print, which complements our AI PCs.

Speaker #4: Well, thank you for the question. And really, as oriented to the AIPCs and totality, not the workstation. So just to provide that context, relative to the attach rate, the attach rate on the AIPCs is very similar to the attach rate that we see in other parts of the PC business.

Speaker #4: And that's traditionally around a one-third, or 30%, margin kind of opportunity for us. On top of that, we also see opportunity to continue to add solutions to our AIPCs.

Speaker #4: And for that, it's oriented to things like the HPIQ, which will be coming out later this year. Device security is another area where we look at, and even in our framework areas, we have AI-enabled print, which complements our AI PCs.

Speaker #4: And so I would say, as you look at the AIPCs, they are, as Keaton and Karen have talked about, at premium pricing and are of significant value to our customers.

Bruce Broussard: I would say, as you look at the AI PCs, as Ketan and Karen have talked about, they are at premium pricing and are at significant value to our customers. They are complemented by the attach rate that we normally add. On top of that, we have a number of solutions that we are able to add to the AI PCs that offer it to be more valuable to the customer and frankly, more valuable to us.

Speaker #4: ...are complemented by the attach rate that we normally have, and then on top of that, we have a number of solutions that we're able to add to the AI PCs that offer it to be more valuable to the customer.

Speaker #4: And, frankly, more valuable to us.

Speaker #5: I'd just add on top of what Bruce mentioned, the AIPCs delivered a strong performance for us this quarter. They contributed 46% of our mix, in line with our 40% to 50% forecast for FY26.

Ketan Patel: I will just add on top of what Bruce mentioned. AI PCs were strong performance also for us this quarter. It contributed 46% of our mix, in line with our 40% to 50% forecast for FY 26, and we are expecting it to get up to 60% to 70% in 2027 and more than 70% in 2028. Also, the work which we have accelerated with ISV partners or software companies, with more than 150 of them, to leverage the capabilities of these PCs. As Bruce mentioned in his comments, with a growing AI workload being pushed to the edge, driven by cost, latency, and privacy considerations, the role of these PCs in customer fleets will continue to expand. This will be margin accretive to us, and that is what we will continue to focus in terms of AI PC mix, as well as workstations, which are critical categories for growth.

Speaker #5: And we are expecting it to get up to 60% to 70% in 2027, and more than 70% in 2028. Also, the work which we have accelerated with ISV partners—the software companies—with more than 150 of them to leverage the capabilities of these PCs, and as Bruce mentioned in his comments, with a growing AI workload being pushed to the edge, driven by cost, latency, and privacy considerations, the role of these PCs in customer fleets will continue to expand.

Speaker #5: So this will be margin-accretive to us, and that's what we'll continue to focus on in terms of AIPC mix, as well as workstations, which are critical categories for growth.

Speaker #5: Got it. Thank you for that color, Keaton. As a follow-up, I had a question on the strong double-digit growth that you’re seeing in both the EMEA and APJ markets.

[Analyst] (TD Cowen): Got you. Thank you for that color, Ketan. For my follow-up, I had a question on the strong double-digit growth that you guys are seeing in both the EMEA and APJ markets. If I recall correctly, the Windows 11 refresh was a big driver of that in the near term. I am curious, in the current quarter and maybe the quarter after as well, is Windows 11 refresh still a big driver there, or is that going to play out in near term? Any other thoughts on demand drivers here would be helpful. Thank you.

Steven Chin: Got you. Thank you for that color, Ketan. For my follow-up, I had a question on the strong double-digit growth that you guys are seeing in both the EMEA and APJ markets. If I recall correctly, the Windows 11 refresh was a big driver of that in the near term. I am curious, in the current quarter and maybe the quarter after as well, is Windows 11 refresh still a big driver there, or is that going to play out in near term? Any other thoughts on demand drivers here would be helpful. Thank you.

Speaker #5: If I recall correctly, the Windows 11 refresh was the driver of that in the near term. Kind of curious, in the current quarter and maybe the quarter after as well, is Windows 11 refresh still a big driver there, or is that going to play out in the near term?

Speaker #5: And any thoughts on demand drivers would be helpful. Thank you.

Speaker #1: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Stephen. We now see roughly 70% of the Windows 11 refresh complete. That's been a good catalyst for the last couple of years.

Alok Julka: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Steven. We now see roughly 70% of the Win 11 refresh complete. That has been a good catalyst for the last couple of years, and we are seeing it still drive small and medium business demand. I would say, that said, the Win 11 catalyst is really being increasingly augmented by a rising demand for AI PCs, edge AI, and agentic workloads requiring more capable PCs. We honestly see these tailwinds to shape the market in the coming years, and we are proud to have an increased penetration of AI PCs today as part of our shipments, as Ketan just mentioned, and a growing part as we look ahead. Your next question today comes from Wamsi Mohan, Bank of America.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah. Thanks for the question, Steven. We now see roughly 70% of the Win 11 refresh complete. That has been a good catalyst for the last couple of years, and we are seeing it still drive small and medium business demand. I would say, that said, the Win 11 catalyst is really being increasingly augmented by a rising demand for AI PCs, edge AI, and agentic workloads requiring more capable PCs. We honestly see these tailwinds to shape the market in the coming years, and we are proud to have an increased penetration of AI PCs today as part of our shipments, as Ketan just mentioned, and a growing part as we look ahead.

Speaker #1: And we are seeing it still drive small and medium business demand. I would say that, that said, the Windows 11 catalyst is really being increasingly augmented by rising demand for AI PCs, Edge AI, and agentic workloads requiring more capable PCs.

Speaker #1: So, we honestly see these tailwinds shaping the market in the coming years. And we're proud to have an increased penetration of AI PCs today as part of our shipments, as Keaton just mentioned, and a growing part as we look ahead.

Speaker #2: Your next question today comes from Wanzi Mohan, Bank of America.

Operator: Your next question today comes from Wamsi Mohan, Bank of America.

Wamsi Mohan: Hi, yes, thank you so much. I was wondering if you could talk about channel inventory levels in both PC and Printing and how they are shaking out, maybe relative to where you would ideally like them, and I will follow up.

Speaker #5: Yes, thank you so much. I was wondering if you could talk about channel inventory levels in both PC and Print, and how they're shaking out maybe relative to where you would ideally like them. I have a follow-up.

Speaker #1: Thanks, Wanzi. I would say that we are definitely disciplined in how we manage inventory across our channels. And in an inflationary cost environment, we would expect inventory to be higher than normal.

Karen Parkhill: Thanks, Vamsi. I would say that we are definitely disciplined in how we manage inventory across our channels. In an inflationary cost environment, we would expect inventory to be higher than normal, and that's exactly what we see in PS right now. That said, the inventory levels in the channel remain well controlled. They're within our demand outlook, and they continue to support the supply continuity that we really want in a constrained memory environment. In Printing, our channel inventory remains at healthy levels and within the range that we would consider normal.

Speaker #1: And that's exactly what we see in PS right now. That said, the inventory levels in the channel remain well controlled. They're within our demand outlook.

Speaker #1: And they continue to support the supply continuity that we really want in a constrained memory environment. In Print, our channel inventory remains at healthy levels.

Speaker #1: And within the range that we would consider normal.

Speaker #5: Okay, thanks, Karen. As a follow-up, we heard a lot about AI and AI PCs as part of the mix, and I'm just wondering, are you seeing these customers already quantifying ROI from local inference deployments?

Bruce Broussard: Okay, thanks Karen. As a follow-up, we heard a lot about AI and AI PCs as part of the mix. I'm just wondering, are you seeing these customers already quantifying ROI from local inference deployments? What kind of use cases are driving that? Or is it more so that customers are selecting AI PCs, because that's becoming the default specification in refresh cycles? Just how much utility is being provided today towards ROI from AI PCs versus future-proofing, I guess?

Wamsi Mohan: Okay, thanks Karen. As a follow-up, we heard a lot about AI and AI PCs as part of the mix. I'm just wondering, are you seeing these customers already quantifying ROI from local inference deployments? What kind of use cases are driving that? Or is it more so that customers are selecting AI PCs, because that's becoming the default specification in refresh cycles? Just how much utility is being provided today towards ROI from AI PCs versus future-proofing, I guess?

Speaker #5: And what kind of use cases are driving that? Or is it more so that customers are selecting AI PCs because that's becoming the default specification in refresh cycles?

Speaker #5: Just how much utility is being provided today towards ROI from AI PCs versus future-proofing, I guess?

Speaker #4: I think that so Wanzi,

Ketan Patel: I'll take that. Once again, thank you for the question. Clearly, the AI PCs are now providing more value than what it was last year. Clearly, as the workloads are coming from cloud to the device, it's adding to significant value for our customers, especially on token economics, which is a big topic right now as you start deploying workloads in a customer environment. That's a significant value which customers are seeing. On top of it, they also see advantage of keeping sensitive data closer to where it is generated, reduce dependency on network connectivity, improve response times, and manage AI costs, as I said earlier, more effectively. This we see as adoption developing in stages.

Speaker #5: Thank you for the question. Clearly, the AIPCs are now providing more value than they were last year. As the workloads are coming from cloud to the device, it's adding significant value for our customers, especially in terms of token economics, which is a big topic right now.

Speaker #5: As you start deploying workloads in a customer environment, that’s a significant value which customers are seeing. On top of it, they also see the advantage of keeping sensitive data closer to where it is generated, reduced dependency on network connectivity, improved response times, and managing AI cost, as I said earlier, more effectively.

Speaker #5: So, this is something we see as adoption developing in stages. Right now, it is helping us on high-value use cases, where the return on investment to the customer is clear—such as employee productivity, engineering and design workflows, or customer service and predictive maintenance kind of use cases.

Ketan Patel: It right now is helping us on high-value use cases where the return on investment to the customer is clear, such as employee productivity, engineering and design workflows or customer service, predictive maintenance kind of use cases. As customers gain confidence in some of those use cases, these capabilities will expand across fleet of devices and also to broader enterprise workflows. That's how we see the current trend.

Speaker #5: As customers gain confidence in some of those use cases, these capabilities will expand across fleets of devices, and also into broader enterprise workflows. So that's how we see the current trend.

Speaker #2: Up next, you'll have a question from a CM Merchant from Citi.

Operator: Up next, you will have a question from Asiya Merchant from Citi.

Speaker #6: Hi, good afternoon. It's Mike Cabuse from CM Merchant with Citi. Let me just go ahead and ask both my questions at once. So the first would be, could you please give more color on the upside to the free cash flow guide?

Mike Cadiz: Hi, good afternoon. It is Mike Cadiz for Asiya Merchant with Citi. Let me just go ahead and ask both my questions at once. The first would be, could you give, please, more color on the upsides of the free cash flow guide? Could it be more than just tariff refund related, or are there more levers than that? That is question one. The second one would be on additional color, please, on the proportion of enterprise customers deploying AI PCs in various pilot versus at scale kind of deployments. Thanks.

Speaker #6: Could it be more than just tariff refund–related? Or are there more levers in that? So that's question one. And the second one would be: can you provide additional color, please, on the proportion of enterprise customers deploying AI PCs in various pilot versus at-scale kinds of deployments?

Speaker #6: Thanks.

Speaker #1: Yeah, thanks, Mike, for the question. I'll answer the free cash flow, and then I'll ask Keaton to take the second one. In terms of free cash flow, we are pleased with our performance year to date.

Karen Parkhill: Thanks, Mike, for the question. I will answer the free cash flow and then I will ask Ketan to take the second one. In terms of free cash flow, we are pleased with our performance year to date. It is above seasonal performance, and enabled us to increase our guide for the full year. That performance is really driven by strong Personal Systems growth, along with continued focus on working capital. Our cash conversion cycle is -37 days, and we continue to have a strong focus on that. It was driven by, yes, more than the tariffs. Tariffs helped a little bit, but clearly driven by underlying performance. Ketan, you want to take the second question?

Speaker #1: It is above seasonal performance and enabled us to increase our guide for the full year. That performance is really driven by strong Personal Systems growth, along with continued focus on working capital.

Speaker #1: Our cash conversion cycle is negative 37 days, and we continue to have a strong focus on that. So it was driven by—yes, more than the tariffs; tariffs helped a little bit, but clearly it was driven by underlying performance.

Speaker #1: Keaton, do you want to take the second question?

Ketan Patel: Yeah. On top of the comments which I had on the AI PC and the workloads, I would say that there are clearly unique needs which we are addressing right now, through our PCs, printers, peripherals, services, and meeting room solutions for modern work. Simultaneously, our solutions like WXP are allowing great control for IT and admins to monitor, support end user, which is becoming a big need in the world where you will have humans and agents operating together. Currently, our AI PCs are most capable for running AI models locally. As Bruce mentioned, we have debuted all of this in a first local, first AI model through HP IQ. Also Wolf Security solution, which HP is implementing, is unique and in protecting at a bias level, intrusions.

Speaker #5: Yeah. On top of the comments I had on the AIPC and the workloads, I would say that there are clearly unique needs that we are addressing right now through our PCs, printers, peripheral services, and meeting room solutions.

Speaker #5: For modern work, Simon Taylor, our solutions like WXP are allowing admins to monitor and support end users, which is becoming a big need in a world where you have humans and agents operating together.

Speaker #5: And currently, our AIPCs are most capable for running AI models locally. And as Bruce mentioned, we have debuted all of this in our first local-first AI model through HPIQ.

Speaker #5: And also Wolf Security Solution, which HP is implementing, is unique in protecting at a BIOS level, intrusions. So some of these are coming together as customers are deploying.

Ketan Patel: Some of these are coming together as customers are deploying, as I said earlier, on high-value use cases and expanding this at a broader level. One thing which we are seeing as a trend for HP, which is a great advantage for our positioning, is our ability uniquely to connect endpoint, the user experiences, enterprise manageability, security, and the broader IT environment, is something which is becoming a good value equation, which we are able to deliver.

Speaker #5: As I said earlier on high-value use cases and expanding this at a broader level. But one thing which we are seeing as a trend for HP, which is a great advantage for our positioning, is our ability uniquely to connect endpoint, the user experiences, enterprise manageability, security, and the broader IT environment. This is something which is becoming a good value equation, which we are able to deliver.

Speaker #6: It sounds like Keinan may have just said a little bit there. I would say that we are seeing better ROI in a number of different areas.

Bruce Broussard: Sanjay, Ketan, maybe I will just add a little bit there. I would say that we are seeing better ROI in a number of different areas, and I think that a large one we are seeing, as Ketan mentioned, was developer customer service. We are also seeing it in manufacturing, where our workstations are able to be incorporated in the manufacturing line or our quality control. They can use it for quality control and other AI-related manufacturing. We do see it there. We also see it in the retail area. In addition, we are beginning to start to see it in the healthcare area. We are seeing a significant amount of both interest and demand as a result of some very powerful use cases from the sub-sectors that we are focused on, but in addition, in the broader areas like Ketan has talked about.

Speaker #6: And I think a large one we're seeing, as Keaton mentioned, was developer customer service, but we're also seeing it in manufacturing, where our workstations are able to be incorporated into the manufacturing line.

Speaker #6: Where our quality control teams can use it for quality control and other AI-related manufacturing tasks. And so we do see it there. We also see it in the retail area.

Speaker #6: In addition, we're starting to see this in the healthcare area. We're also seeing a significant amount of both interest and demand as a result of some very powerful use cases.

Speaker #6: Both in the sub-sectors that we're focused on, but in addition, in the broader areas like what Keaton has talked about.

Speaker #2: Your next question comes from Eric Woodring from Morgan Stanley.

Operator: Your next question comes from Erik Woodring from Morgan Stanley.

Speaker #3: Hey, guys. Thank you very much for taking my questions, and I apologize—I hopped on late. But you sound very optimistic about fiscal '27 personal systems operating margins.

Erik Woodring: Hey, guys. Thank you very much for taking my questions, and I apologize I hopped on late, but, Ketan, you sound very optimistic about FY27 Personal Systems operating margins, and even the October quarter being the trough. If we think about unit declines accelerating, component inflation is continuing, you are working through higher cost inventory.

Speaker #3: And even the October quarter being the trough. But if we think about unit declines accelerating, component inflation is continuing, and you're working through higher cost inventory.

Speaker #3: And it's fair to probably imagine demand elasticity likely increases due to these factors. It's not totally clear to me what the factors are that allow Personal Systems operating margins to improve.

Erik Woodring: And it is fair to probably imagine demand elasticity likely increases due to these factors. It is not totally clear to me what the factors are that allow Personal Systems operating margins to improve. Even NVIDIA tonight is guiding to margin pressure next year from memory cost. Can you maybe just help me please better understand the offsets to some of these pressures that we are thinking about? Then I have a quick follow-up. Thanks so much.

Speaker #3: Even Nvidia tonight is going to have margin pressure next year from memory cost. So can you maybe just help me, please, better understand the offsets to some of these pressures that we're thinking about?

Speaker #3: And then I have a quick follow-up. Thanks so much.

Speaker #1: Yeah, sure. Sure, Eric. Happy to help. So, obviously, we talked about the fact that we expect costs to continue to increase, but at a slower rate.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah, sure, Erik. Happy to help. We talked about the fact that we expect costs to continue to increase, but at a slower rate. I will start there. At the same time, the mitigation actions that we have been taking are really starting to kick in. Things like long-term contract revisions on the pricing top side, which takes some lead time, and other cost actions that we have been working through, like product redesign and platform optimization, that can also take some time starting to kick in. I would say importantly, we are also going to continue to focus on what we have been driving so far, which is an increased mix of premium products with AI PCs and workstations, and also a greater mix of attach offerings, where we have got plenty of opportunity to drive even more.

Speaker #1: So I'll start there. And at the same time, the mitigation actions that we've been taking are really starting to kick in—so things like long-term contract revisions on the pricing side, which take some lead time.

Speaker #1: And other cost actions that we've been working through, like product redesign and platform optimization, can also take some time to start kicking in.

Speaker #1: And I would say, importantly, we're also going to continue to focus on what we've been driving so far, which is an increased mix of premium products with AI PCs and workstations, and also a greater mix of attached offerings, where we've got plenty of opportunity to drive even more.

Speaker #1: And that's inclusive of peripherals and services, things like our WXP platform, etc. So it's all of these things combined that give us high confidence that we can drive improvement from here.

Karen Parkhill: That is inclusive of peripherals and services, things like our WXP platform, et cetera. It is all of these things combined that give us high confidence that we can drive improvement from here.

Speaker #3: Okay, all right. I appreciate that. And as a quick follow-up, I know, obviously, myself included, there's been a focus on PS margins on this call.

Erik Woodring: Okay. All right. I appreciate that. As a quick follow-up, I know, obviously myself included, there has been a focus on PS margins on this call. What about Print operating margins, just as you think about them into next year? How do you expect them to trend, and what are some of the puts and takes to consider? Thanks so much.

Speaker #3: What about print operating margins, just as you think about them into next year? How do you expect them to trend, and what are some of the puts and takes to consider?

Speaker #3: Thanks so much.

Speaker #1: Yeah. I would say, on the print margins in FY27, I'll start by just confirming that we remain comfortable with our long-term operating profit range of 16 to 19 percent for Print.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah, I would say on the Print margins, in FY27, I will start by just confirming that we remain comfortable with our long-term operating profit range of 16% to 19% for Print, and that still holds for our fiscal 2027. Where we land in that range can really vary quarter to quarter and is influenced by seasonality, along with the magnitude of long-term profitable units that we are able to place in the competitive environment. As we look more broadly to FY27, we will remain focused on protecting operating profit through share gains and profit up front tank printers through expansion and consumer subscriptions, and by strengthening our position in office through some AI-enabled innovation that we have been bringing to market, along with sustaining momentum and industrial graphics, and of course, always maintaining cost discipline. Hopefully that helps.

Speaker #1: And that still holds for our fiscal '27. Where we land in that range can really vary quarter to quarter, and is influenced by seasonality along with the magnitude of long-term profitable units that we're able to place in the competitive environment.

Speaker #1: But as we look more broadly to FY27, we will remain focused on protecting operating profit through share gains and profit upfront tank printers, through expansion, and consumer subscriptions.

Speaker #1: And by strengthening our position in innovation that we've been bringing to market, along with sustaining momentum in industrial graphics. And, of course, always maintaining cost discipline.

Speaker #1: So hopefully that helps.

Speaker #2: Our next question today comes from Catherine Murphy, Goldman Sachs.

Operator: Our next question today comes from Katherine Murphy, Goldman Sachs.

Speaker #4: Thank you for the question. It was impressive to see the 18% revenue growth in the Personal Systems segment, though units were down 16%. I was wondering if you could help quantify, or otherwise rank, how like-for-like price increases, portfolio mix, and just benefits contributed?

Katherine Murphy: Thank you for the question. It was impressive to see the 18% revenue growth in the Personal Systems segment, though units were down 16%. I was wondering if you could help quantify or otherwise rank how like for like price increases, portfolio mixtures benefits, and the increased attach of related services benefited that implied ASP increase in the quarter, and if one-third of gross profit in this segment coming from those attached businesses is still the right way to think about the mix. Then I have a quick follow-up. Thank you.

Speaker #4: And then the increased attach of related services benefited that implied ASP increase in the quarter. And is one-third of gross profit in this segment coming from those attached businesses still the right way to think about the mix?

Speaker #4: And then I have a quick follow-up. Thank you.

Speaker #1: Yeah. Thanks, Catherine. I'll take that question, and Keaton, feel free to add if you want. I would say all of the things that we are doing really drove our revenue growth.

Karen Parkhill: Thanks, Kathryn. I will take that question, and Ketan, feel free to add if you want. I would say, all of the things that we are doing really drove our revenue growth, and we are not going to quantify how much was related to each. Clearly, mix played a role, as we drive more premium share, more AI PCs, more hybrid, more Workforce Experience Platform. All of those things played a role, along with pricing. We have been continuing to increase pricing, given our higher input costs, and that also played a role too. Ketan, anything you would add?

Speaker #1: And we're not going to quantify how much was related to each, but clearly mix played a role. As we drive more premium share, more AI PCs, more hybrid, more Workforce Experience Platform, all of those things played a role.

Speaker #1: Along with pricing, we've been continuing to increase pricing, given our higher input costs, and that also played a role, too. Keaton, anything you would add?

Speaker #5: Yeah. Just to give some color to the mix thing—how mix is helping us in the overall margin performance—our sequential gains on premium categories have been pretty strong.

Ketan Patel: Yeah, just to give some color to the mix thing, how mix is helping us in the overall margin performance is our sequential gains on premium categories has been pretty strong. We grew 2.6 points of share on premium and 1.8 points of share on workstations. Those are categories which are growing and something which we are pleased that we continue to take share. To your other comment around non-hardware business contribution, yes, the attached businesses, which is combination of our peripherals, collaboration solutions, services such as WXP and others, have contributed one-third of the overall PS gross profit. That is in line with what we have been forecasting that those are the businesses which we will continue to focus.

Speaker #5: We grew 2.6 points of share in premium and 1.8 points of share in workstation. Those are categories that are growing, and we're pleased that we continue to take share.

Speaker #5: And to your other comment around non-hardware business contribution, yes, the attached businesses, which is a combination of our peripherals, collaboration solutions, services such as WXP, and others, have contributed one-third of the overall PS gross profit.

Speaker #5: And that's in line with what we have been forecasting, that those are the businesses which will continue to focus.

Speaker #4: Great, thank you. And then I'll attempt to ask if there's any preliminary thoughts on industry PC volumes as we think about fiscal 2027. Thank you very much.

Katherine Murphy: Great. Thank you. I will attempt to ask if there is any preliminary thoughts on industry PC volumes as we think about fiscal 2027. Thank you very much.

Speaker #1: Yeah, I would say on FY27, obviously, we're still in our planning period. It's premature to give you specifics on our outlook for that fiscal year.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah, I would say on FY27, obviously we are still in our planning period. It is premature to give you specifics on our outlook for the fiscal year. On unit volumes, that continues to move around, so premature for us to talk about that at this point.

Speaker #1: And on unit volumes, that continues to move around, so it's premature for us to talk about that at this point.

Speaker #5: I would just only add that there are two demand vectors. As you look at 2027, as Karen mentioned previously, the growth catalyst is the shift towards AI workloads and hence some of those categories around AI PCs and premium PCs and workstations.

Ketan Patel: I would just only add that there are two demand vectors as you look at 2027. As Karen mentioned previously, a growth catalyst being the shift towards AI workloads, and hence some of those categories around AI PCs and premium PCs and workstations. So that is going to be tailwind. At the same time, there has been demand delay or as some of the customers deferred product refresh, given the price increases this year. As costs start stabilizing over the next period, you will start seeing some of those refreshes coming over a period of time. So that is how we look at two different demand signals coming through.

Speaker #5: So that's going to be a tailwind. At the same time, there has been demand delay, as some of the customers deferred product refresh given the price increases this year.

Speaker #5: And as costs start stabilizing over the next period, you will start seeing some of those refreshes coming over a period of time. So that's how we look at two different demand signals coming through.

Speaker #2: Your next question comes from David Vogt from UBS.

Operator: Your next question comes from David Vogt from UBS.

Speaker #6: Great, thanks, guys, for squeezing me in here. So, Karen, I just want to maybe ask a clarifying question about Q3 profitability and margins. Can you help us walk through your comment in greater detail about protecting print margins?

David Vogt: Great. Thanks, guys, for squeezing me in here. Karen, I just want to maybe ask a clarifying question about 2027 profitability and margins. Can you help us walk through your comment in greater detail about protecting Print margins? Does that exclude the benefit of the tariff contract count in 2026? Is that how we should be thinking about your comment in 2027, or is that inclusive of the benefit that you're seeing this year from the tariff refunds? If you could help us understand, I jumped on late and I apologize. Was the tariff refund largely in Print? I would imagine there's a big chunk in PC also, but I didn't quite hear that in the prepared remarks.

Speaker #6: Does that exclude the benefit of the tariff contract count in '26? Is that how we should be thinking about your comment in '27? Or is that inclusive of the benefit that you're seeing this year from the tariff refunds?

Speaker #6: And if you could help us understand—I jumped on late, and I apologize—was the tariff refund largely in Print? I would imagine there's a big chunk in PC also, but I didn't quite hear that in the prepared remarks.

Speaker #1: Yeah, so just on your question on print margins for next year, when we talk about our long-term 16% to 19% range, that is without or excluding any one-time benefit that we might get from tariff refunds.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah. Just on your question on Print margins for next year, when we talk about our long-term 16% to 19% range, that is without or excluding any one-time benefit that we might get from tariff refunds. We did have some benefit from tariff refunds this quarter and have signaled more next quarter. It does largely benefit Print. There is a smaller portion that benefited PS, but it is largely benefiting Print. You saw our Print margins in Q3 be higher than expectations driven by that benefit. But once you exclude those benefits, they were largely in line with expectations.

Speaker #1: We did have some benefit from tariff refunds this quarter and have signaled more next quarter. It does largely benefit Print. There is a smaller portion that benefited PS.

Speaker #1: But it is largely benefiting Print, and so you saw our Print margins in Q3 be higher than expectations, driven by that benefit. But once you exclude those benefits, they were largely in line with expectations.

Speaker #6: Perfect. That's what we thought. And then maybe, just as a quick follow-up, in terms of mix, I think we were—well, we were worried about mix to hardware in the quarter.

David Vogt: Perfect. That's what we thought. Then maybe just as a quick follow-up, in terms of mix, I think we were worried about mix to hardware in the quarter. Obviously supplies are sub-seasonal. Well, hardware is seasonally stronger relative to supplies. How do we think about the input cost on the hardware side relative to the business? Because I know we've talked about in the past the impact of currencies, the impact of commodities like oil. How are you thinking about that in context of when we're thinking about fiscal 2027? I know you don't want to give a guide, but when I think about those moving parts that are a little bit out of your control, how should we think about those contributions to the outlook?

Speaker #6: Obviously, supplies are subseason, while hardware is seasonally stronger relative to supplies. How do we think about the input costs on the hardware side relative to the business?

Speaker #6: Because I know we've talked in the past about the impact of currencies, the impact of commodities like oil. How are you thinking about that in the context of when we're thinking about fiscal '27?

Speaker #6: I know you’d want to give a guide, but when I think about those moving parts that are a little bit out of your control, how should we think about those contributions to the outlook?

Speaker #1: Yeah, I would just say, in general, in print we are going to continue to focus on momentum in our key growth areas, and on introducing new products in our more traditional print business.

Karen Parkhill: Yeah. I would just say in general, in Printing, we are going to continue to focus on momentum in our key growth areas and introducing new products in our more traditional print business. That includes expanding our tank portfolio and driving further traction from our recent rollout of our AI-enabled laser portfolio in office. In terms of just supplies, we have said for a long term that we expect supplies revenue to decline low to mid-single digits in constant currency. This year in particular in FY26, we see it declining low single digits in constant currency, but our long-term view of supplies hasn't changed.

Speaker #1: That includes expanding our tank portfolio and driving further traction from our recent rollout of our AI-enabled Laser portfolio in office. And then in terms of just supplies, we have said for a long time that we expect supplies revenue to decline low to mid-single digits in constant currency.

Speaker #1: This year in particular, in FY '26, we see it declining low single digits in constant currency, but our long-term view of supplies hasn't changed.

Speaker #6: Perfect. Thank you very much.

David Vogt: Perfect. Thank you very much.

Speaker #2: And the next question is Amanda Baruha, Luke Capital.

Operator: The next question is Ananda Baruah, Loop Capital.

Speaker #7: Hey, yeah, good afternoon, guys. Thanks a lot. Appreciate you taking the question here. I guess going back to what sort of the revenue texture can look like as we go through '27, do you think it's a situation where corporate is refreshing to higher spec PCs now as a trend, such that it's not you guys are seeing higher numbers because of memory prices, but because it's actually what customers are increasingly wanting?

Ananda Baruah: Hey. Yeah. Good afternoon, guys. Thanks a lot. Appreciate you taking the question here. Just going back to what sort of the revenue texture can look like as we go through 2027. Do you think it's a situation where corporate is refreshing to higher spec PCs now as a trend such that you guys are seeing higher ASPs not only because of memory prices, but because it's actually what customers are increasingly wanting. I guess what I'm trying to get an anecdotal sense of is there more appetite, natural appetite for higher pricing as distinct from memory pricing increases as we go through 2027 into 2028?

Speaker #7: And I guess what I'm trying to get an anecdotal sense of is, is there increasingly more appetite, a natural appetite for higher pricing, as distinct from, you know, memory pricing increases, as we go through '27 into '28?

Speaker #5: Yeah, I'll take that question. Thank you for that. Yes, we definitely see the effect of how customers are choosing those higher-configuration products, largely because of the need to conduct AI at the edge.

Ketan Patel: Yeah, I will take that question. Thank you for that. Yes, we definitely see the effect of how customers are choosing those higher configuration products, largely because of the need to conduct AI at the edge to support increasing AI workloads. Our customers in that environment are now, as they are implementing AI in their workflows, they are seeing this becoming more prevalent than before. Also, increasing use of agents, increasing concern about token costs, cybersecurity, privacy, and a lot of applications which requires a different kind of latency needs, leading to a PC refresh with more capable PCs having these capabilities. That is why to your point, yes, we see demand shifting to those higher-end devices too, as part of the natural mix.

Speaker #5: To support increasing AI workloads, customers in their environments are now, as they're implementing AI in their workflows, seeing this become more prevalent than before.

Speaker #5: Also, increased use of agents is increasing concerns about token costs, cybersecurity, privacy, and a lot of applications which require different kinds of latency needs, leading to a PC refresh with more capable PCs having these capabilities.

Speaker #5: And that's why, to your point, yes, we see demand shifting to those higher-end devices, too, as part of the natural mix.

Ananda Baruah: This is a tricky one here. Just a quick follow-up. Do you guys yet have visibility to enterprise users adopting AI PCs or talking about AI PCs? You sort of quick touched on it, as a way to basically get the model off the internet, right? So they do not have to absorb token costs, so they can actually run them native and just avoid the token cost. Is that a meaningful part of conversations yet?

Speaker #7: And this is a tricky one here. Just a quick follow-up. But do you guys yet have visibility into enterprise users adopting AI PCs or talking about AI PCs?

Speaker #7: You sort of quick touched on it, as a way to get—because—to basically get the model off the internet, right? So they don't have to absorb token costs.

Speaker #7: So they can actually run them natively and just avoid the token cost. Is that a meaningful part of conversations yet?

Speaker #5: Yes. There are two meaningful conversations which are going on right now as customers bring these workloads. One, this increasing cost of token, and how bringing models locally on the edge.

Ketan Patel: Yes, there are two meaningful conversations which are going on right now as customers bring these workloads. One, this increasing cost of token and how bringing models locally on the edge can help them optimize cost as well as take care of employee needs of requirements to use different AI models for their work. So that is definitely one of the conversations. The second big one is as they deploy agents more in their environment, how to govern those agents more securely and drive the right level of enterprise manageability. I think those are the top two use cases which we believe are happening as we speak, apart from the industry vertical workflows, which Bruce talked about earlier.

Speaker #5: Can help them optimize costs, as well as take care of customer and employee needs or requirements to use different AI models for their work.

Speaker #5: So that's definitely one of the conversations. And the second big one is, as they deploy agents more in their environment, how to govern those agents more securely and drive the right level of enterprise manageability.

Speaker #5: I think those are the top two use cases, which we believe are happening as we speak, apart from the industry vertical workflows that Bruce talked about earlier.

Speaker #2: And everyone, that does conclude our question and answer session. I would like to hand the conference back to Mr. Bruce Broussard for any additional or closing remarks.

Operator: Everyone, that does conclude our question and answer session. I would like to hand the conference back to Mr. Bruce Broussard for any additional or closing remarks.

Speaker #5: Thank you. And thank you all for the thoughtful questions and for joining us today. As you can tell from our voices, we are excited about the future, and AI at the edge creates incredible opportunities. HP is well positioned to lead in this area.

Bruce Broussard: Thank you. Thank you all for the thoughtful questions and joining us today. As you can tell from our voices, we are excited about the future, and AI at the edge creates some incredible opportunities, and HP is well positioned to lead in this area. As we talked about with our strong portfolio, our network reach, trusted brand, we are all equipped to help our customers thrive in the AI era. Thank you as always to our customers, partners, and investors for the continued confidence you place in HP. We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress, and have a good afternoon. Thank you.

Speaker #5: As we've discussed, with our strong portfolio, our network, reach, and trusted brand, we are well equipped to help our customers thrive in the AI era.

Speaker #5: And thank you, as always, to our customers, partners, and investors for the continued confidence you place in HP. We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress, and have a good afternoon.

Speaker #5: Thank you.

Speaker #2: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference. We would like to thank you all for your participation today. You may now disconnect.

Operator: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference. We would like to thank you all for your participation today. You may now disconnect.