HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY vs Sandisk Corporation, two Computer Hardware stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where HPE and SNDK diverge most: on debt / equity, HPE reads 0.84 and SNDK reads 0.00; on return on assets, HPE reads 2.0% and SNDK reads 26.4%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What HPE's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). What SNDK's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | HPE | SNDK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $47.88 | $1214.05 |
| Market cap | $63.4B | $179.8B |
| Sector | Computer Hardware | Computer Hardware |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| P/E | 43.9 | — |
| P/B | 2.50 | 13.05 |
| P/S | 1.63 | 15.93 |
| EV/EBITDA | 34.1 | 32.7 |
| Revenue growth | +22.8% | +111.6% |
| Gross margin | — | 78.3% |
| Operating margin | 7.0% | 69.1% |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 40.0% |
| Return on equity | 6.1% | 32.7% |
| Return on assets | 2.0% | 26.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 2.8% | 34.2% |
| FCF yield | 6.3% | 2.5% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.84 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.09 | 4.78 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.52 | 8.19 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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