HP Inc. (HPQ): TD Securities Raises Price Target to $39 Amid Mixed PC Demand and AI Product Expansion - InvestingChannel

HP Inc. (HPQ): TD Securities Raises Price Target to $39 Amid Mixed PC Demand and AI Product Expansion

We recently compiled a list of the 15 AI News and Ratings Trending on Financial Media. In this article, we are going to take a look at where HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ) stands against the other AI stocks that are trending on financial media.

Latest reports from finance news publication The Wall Street Journal reveal that xAI, the AI startup founded by billionaire Elon Musk, is on track to surpass $100 million in annual revenue and could release a standalone app for its Grok chatbot as soon as next month. Per the report, the vast majority of the revenue comes from other companies that Musk chairs, as Grok is only available to users of the X social network, and it has been used as a customer service feature for the Starlink internet service. Grok is competing with other AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, among others.

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Meanwhile, Chinese firm ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, is reportedly suing a former intern for $1.1 million, alleging he deliberately attacked its artificial intelligence large language model training infrastructure. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the case has drawn attention due to its focus on AI LLM training, a technology that has captured global interest amid rapid technological advances in so-called generative AI, used to produce text, images or other output from large bodies of data. The intern is alleged to have deliberately sabotaged the model training tasks through code manipulation and unauthorized modifications.

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For this article, we selected AI stocks by combing through news articles, stock analysis, and press releases. These stocks are also popular among hedge funds. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points (see more details here).

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HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 42

HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ) provides personal computing and other digital access devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies, solutions, and services worldwide. The firm markets next gen AI PCs and laptops. On November 27, TD Securities raised the price target on the stock to $39 from $32 and kept a Hold rating on the shares. The advisory said its EPS outlook was in line as soft near-term PC demand is spilling over into next year, as soft end markets continue to spoil the solid progress of cost restructuring.

Overall HPQ ranks 11th on our list of the AI stocks that trending on financial media. While we acknowledge the potential of HPQ as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than HPQ but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

 

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.

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