Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will raise its 2012 quarterly dividend by 10.0 percent to an adjusted $0.05995 per share. Last year the personal computer maker hiked its dividend by 50.0 percent. This was the first dividend increase in many years by HPQ.
Hewlett-Packard is a global provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. The company's products include personal computing and other access devices, imaging- and printing-related products and services, enterprise information technology infrastructure, including enterprise server and storage technology, networking products and solutions, technology support and maintenance, IT services and IT management software, application testing and delivery software, information management solutions, big data analytics, security intelligence and risk management solutions. HP was incorporated in 1947 under the laws of the state of California as the successor to a partnership founded in 1939 by William R. Hewlett and David Packard.