Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (NYSE:HPE) climbed in early trading on Tuesday, along with some other stocks.
The company is poised to benefit from cost cuts, Juniper-related synergies and AI optionality, according to Bank of America Securities.
Analyst Wamsi Mohan upgraded the rating from Neutral to Buy, while raising the price target from $21 to $24.
The Thesis: The Juniper acquisition will lower the company's reliance on compute and "shift focus to the higher margin networking business," Mohan said in the upgrade note.
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The analyst mentioned five reasons for the upgrade:
- Significant cost cuts driven by new CFO Marie Myers, who has a proven track record at HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ)
- Cyclical recovery across servers, storage and networking
- Increased revenues and cost synergies from the Juniper acquisition, which is expected to close soon
- Margin recovery in High-Performance Compute (HPC)
- AI-related benefits, "as Enterprise/Sovereign demand increases"
The tech company could leverage its partnership with Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) and "capitalize on Juniper's Mist platform utilizing A.I. in the networking market," he further wrote.
Price Action: Hewlett Packard shares spiked 6.09% to $18.28 at the time of publication on Tuesday.
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