HP said its total revenue rose marginally to $15.41 billion.
HP’s quarterly earnings increased marginally in the wake of higher sales from PCs and workstations.
Revenue from its personal systems unit, which makes notebooks and laptops, rose 3.6 percent to $10.43 billion in the fourth quarter. Sales from HP’s printer division, however, fell 6 percent to $4.98 billion.
HP is the second-biggest PC maker after China’s Lenovo Group with a 23.8 percent share of the market, according to data from research firm IDC.
Dell’s PC business sales rose 4.6 percent to $11.41 billion.
Net income of HP fell to $388 million, or 26 cents per share, in the quarter ended Oct. 31 from $1.45 billion, or 91 cents per share, a year earlier.
