PALO ALTO, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday that it is cutting another 11,000 to 16,000 jobs, above a target of 34,000 the company outlined in a multi-year restructuring plan in May 2012. It also offered an outlook that was below expectations.
The company said in a release that the increased cuts come “as HP continues to re-engineer the workforce to be more competitive and meet its objectives.”
HP said it had 317,500 workers at the end of October, when it was partway into its restructuring. It employs several hundred at an Imaging and Printing Division office in Vancouver’s Columbia Tech Center.
HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, said in a statement that the company’s turnaround “remains on track.”
“We’re gradually shaping HP into a more nimble, lower-cost, more customer- and partner-centric company that can successfully compete,” she said.
The company also reported that net income in the three-month period ending April 30 rose 18 percent to $1.27 billion, or 66 cents per share.
Excluding special items such as restructuring charges, adjusted earnings were 88 cents per share, meeting the expectation of analysts polled by FactSet.
Revenue fell 1 percent to $27.31 billion, below the $27.43 billion analysts expected.
HP’s quarterly results were unexpectedly released early, before markets closed. HP’s stock dropped 74 cents, or 2.3 percent, to close at $31.78 and fell another 1.4 percent to $31.33 in after-hours trading.
The company said it expects adjusted earnings of 86 cents to 90 cents per share in the current quarter, with the midpoint a penny below the 89 cents analysts are looking for. HP said full-year adjusted earnings will be between $3.63 and $3.75 per share. The midpoint is two cents below analysts’ expectations of $3.71 per share.
