By Tiernan Ray,
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Shares of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are off 10 cents at $39.65 after the business last evening announced its head of enterprise sales and advertising and marketing, Thomas Hogan, is leaving to pursue other opportunities right after 5 decades on the firm.
This early morning,
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RBC Funds Markets’s Amit Daryanani this early morning reiterates an Outperform rating on the shares and a $56 price target, writing that Hogan’s departure “may reignite investor concerns about management attrition at HP given the CEO transition,
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Keith Bachman with BMO Money is less sanguine. Hogan was probably one of the candidates for the CEO spot at HP before Leo Apotheker took over very last fall, and so this is mostly about Hogan being unfulfilled at HP,
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Office Home And Business 2010 Key, and Tom had been helpful in driving results,” Bachman writes. “Nevertheless, we think Tom was an effective leader, and thus, his resignation does not reflect well on HPQ. Hence, our quick take is negative.”
Bachman, nevertheless, reiterates an Outperform rating on HP shares and a $51 price target.