Personal computer makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell are having a tough year. Both are challenged by growing popularity of mobile computing and smartphones. Both stocks have lost more than a third of their value in a year when the Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 12 percent. Here’s a look at HP and Dell:
Hewlett Packard Inc. (HPQ)
Year Founded: 1939
Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.
President and CEO: Meg Whitman
Latest stock price: $14.19
Stock price lowest since: October 2002
Year-to-date decline: 44.9 percent
Market Cap: $27.9 billion
Fiscal 2011 revenue: $127 billion
Dividend yield: 3.7 percent
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Dell Inc. (DELL)
Year Founded: 1984
Headquarters: Round Rock, Texas
CEO, Chairman and Founder: Michael S. Dell
Latest stock price: $9.24
Stock price lowest since: March 2009
Year-to-date decline: 36.8 percent
Market cap: $16 billion
2011 revenue: $61 billion
Dividend yield: 3.5 percent
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Source: Google Finance, Morningstar, company websites
Note: Stock price data through Oct. 25
