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Founded by William R. Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, HP Inc. (HPQ) is an information technology company.

It provides personal computing and other access devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies,

It operates through three segments: (1) Personal Systems, (2) Printing, and (3) Corporate Investments. 

Three key data points gauge HPQ, or any dividend-paying entity, namely:

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Those keys also indicate if any company has made, is making, and will make money.

HPQ Price

HP’s single share price fell 6.74% from $32.94 to $23.11 this past year, per Tuesday’s market price.

Seventeen analysts cover the stock, and the median of their one-year targets set an estimated price up $2.71 to $25.88.

However, HPQ’s ten-year price gain of $11.38 averaged $1.14 per year.

HPQ Dividends

HP Inc has paid generally annually increasing dividends since July 2010, with a steady stream of Q dividends dating back to October 1989.

Recently, the January 2026 declared $.30 per Q dividend equates to an annual payout of $1.20 as the forward-looking annual dividend amount projected for the coming year.

HPQ Returns

Putting it all together, an annual gross gain of $3.12 per share is predicted by adding the $1.20 forward-looking dividend to a $1.92  calculated average price gain.

A little over $1000 invested at Tuesday’s $23.11 share price would buy 43 shares, which multiply the $3.12 gross gain to an estimated $135.00 upside for the coming year.

38.4% of that $135 gross gain would come from the $51.90 annual dividend payout from your $1.000 investment.

And the $135.00 dividend from $1k invested is 5.84 times more than HP Inc’s $23.11 single share price.

(The dividend dogcatcher rule is to only buy initial shares of a stock that pay an annual dividend from $1000 invested that is greater than the cost of a single share.

So, you might choose to pounce on HPQ and its forthcoming dividend from $1,000 invested that is 5.84 times more than the price of a single share.

The exact track of HP Inc's future share price and dividends will entirely be determined by market action and company finances.

Remember, the best way to track stock performance and dividend payments is through direct ownership of company shares.

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