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Timothy Feeney
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HP Enterprise to Acquire Nimble Storage; Shares Fairly Valued

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced March 7 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nimble Storage, a provider of all-flash and hybrid-flash storage products. HP Enterprise will pay $12.50 per share in cash, which represents a purchase price of around $1 billion and implies fiscal 2016 price/sales of 2.5. We think this acquisition aligns well with HP Enterprise’s capital-allocation framework and strategy of focusing on high-growth segments of the market. Nimble Storage’s flash offering...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a technology company. The company's segments are: Hybrid IT, which provides a portfolio of infrastructure and solutions including servers, storage, and HPE Pointnext services; Intelligent Edge, which is comprised of cloud solutions that include wireless local area network, campus and data center switching, software-defined wide-area-networking, security, and associated services to enable secure connectivity; Financial Services, which provides investment solutions for customers that facilitate technology deployment models; and Corporate Investments, which includes Communications and Media Solutions, Hewlett Packard Labs and certain business incubation projects.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Timothy Feeney

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