Dow Today: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Higher

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading down 23.0 points (-0.2%) at 13,587 as of Monday, Oct 8, 2012, 10:35 a.m. ET. During this time, 105.6 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 580.2 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,104 issues advancing vs. 1,710 declining with 133 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), which is sporting a two-cent gain (+0.1%) bringing the stock to $14.75. Volume for Hewlett-Packard currently sits at 7.4 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 25 million shares.

Hewlett-Packard has a market cap of $29.37 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. Shares are down 42.8% year to date as of Friday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 3.5%.

Hewlett-Packard Company and its subsidiaries provide products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide.

TheStreet Ratings rates Hewlett-Packard as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow, poor profit margins and generally high debt management risk.

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