Comments on: HP earnings drop 17 percent

Hewlett-Packard's revenue is down across most main business units.

[Perry_Clease]

The laptop hunter ads?

[monkeyfun14]

Were you not just calling me a troll for making a comment like that in another article?

[Perry_Clease]

Guilty, but there was an article today about the success of the ads

[wolivere]

If you notice that sales are up in North America.... just down in other areas of the world.

[chash360]

I would love to see the 'fair and balanced' version of these business articles that clearly points out the difference between Revenue, Earnings and Profit.

Just as a brief:
Revenue=How much business did they do?
Earnings=How much did Wallstreet leach off their business?
Profit=How much money did they actually make after paying the bills?

Notice that nowhere in the article is mentioned profits, which is the bottom line in any business.

Wallstreet (shareholders) do not contribute real value to a business, they merely seek to gain from a company's gain, with what is basically a gambled loan, with no productive-value-added work applied.

[idfubar]

Dude, what? You sound like a nut; EPS is a common metric which allows an investor to compare the profits of two companies with an equal share price - what does your anti-Wall St. rhetoric have to do with an article which summarizes a quarterly report mandated by the SEC for all publicly traded companies?

[JoeWork]

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