Hewlett-Packard's CEO Discusses F1Q13 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Executives

Rob Binns – Vice President-Investor Relations

Meg Whitman – President and Chief Executive Officer

Cathie Lesjak – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Analysts

Kathryn Huberty – Morgan Stanley

Toni Sacconaghi, Jr. – Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC

Benjamin Reitzes – Barclays Capital

Brian Alexander – Raymond James & Associates

Keith Bachman – BMO Capital Markets

Steven Milunovich – UBS Securities

Amit Daryanani – RBC Capital Markets

Kulbinder Garcha – Credit Suisse

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Operator

Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the first quarter Hewlett-Packard Company earnings conference call. My name is Anthony and I will be your conference moderator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a Question & Answer session towards the end of the conference (Operator Instructions). As a reminder this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.

I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today’s call, Rob Binns, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please proceed.

Rob Binns

Good afternoon, welcome to our first quarter 2013 earnings conference call. With Meg Whitman, HP’s Chief Executive Officer; and Cathie Lesjak, HP’s Chief Financial Officer. Before handing the call over to Meg let me remind you that this call is being webcast. A replay of the webcast will be made available shortly after the call for approximately one year.

Some information provided during this call may include forward looking statements that involve risk, uncertainties, and assumption. If the risks or uncertainties have materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results of HP may materially may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Both statements other than statements of historical facts are statements that could be deemed forward looking statements including but not limited to any projections revenue, margins, expenses, earnings per share, tax provision, cash flow, share repurchases, currency exchange rates of other financial items.

Any statements of the plans strategies and objectives of management for future operation and any statements concerning the expected development, performance, market share or competitive performance relating to products or services. A discussion of some of these risks uncertainties and assumptions is set forth in more detail in HP’s SEC report including its most recent Form 10-K. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any such forward-looking statements. The financial information discussed in connection with this call including any tax related items reflect estimates based on information available at this time and could differ materially from the amounts ultimately in HP’s first quarter Form 10-Q.