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| Goodwill | Goodwill Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level. As of November 1, 2025, the Company reassessed its reporting units and determined that the former Server and Hybrid Cloud reporting units met the criteria to qualify as a single Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit, and Intelligent Edge and Juniper Networks met the criteria to qualify as a single Networking reporting unit. The Cloud & AI segment contains the Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) and Financial Services reporting units. The Corporate Investments and Other segment contains the A & PS, Telco Solutions and Instant On reporting units. The following table represents the carrying value of goodwill, by segment as of April 30, 2026 and October 31, 2025.
(1) There has been no change to the accumulated impairment loss from the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2025. (2) Reclassified to assets held for sale and is reported in Other current assets in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Goodwill is tested annually for impairment, as of the first day of the fourth quarter, at the reporting unit level. Additionally, an interim impairment test was performed as of November 1, 2025 based on organizational changes impacting the reporting units. The interim impairment test did not result in any impairment of goodwill. For all reporting units other than Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services), a qualitative test was performed and there were no indicators of impairment of goodwill. For the Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit a quantitative assessment was performed, and the excess of fair value over carrying amount was 10%. In order to evaluate the sensitivity of the estimated fair value of the reporting units in the goodwill impairment test, the Company applied a 10% decrease to the fair value of the Cloud & AI, (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit. Based on the results of this hypothetical 10% decrease, this reporting unit did not have an excess of fair value over carrying value. The Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit has goodwill of $13.5 billion as of April 30, 2026. In the current macroeconomic and inflationary environment, customers are investing selectively. This has resulted in moderate unit growth in server offerings offset by expansion of average unit selling prices as a result of higher commodity and input costs. In addition, the business is managing a storage product model transition to a more cloud-native, software-defined platform with HPE Alletra. Translating this growth to revenue and operating income will take time because a greater mix of high margin business, such as ratable software and services, are deferred and recognized in future periods. The Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit continues to focus on capturing market share in both traditional and AI servers and storage while maintaining operating margin and leveraging its strong portfolio of products and services. If the global macroeconomic or geopolitical conditions worsen, projected revenue growth rates or operating margins decline, weighted average cost of capital increases, or if the Company has significant or sustained decline in its stock price, it is possible its estimates about this reporting unit's ability to successfully address the current challenges may change, which could result in the carrying value of the Cloud & AI (excluding Financial Services) reporting unit exceeding its estimated fair value and potential impairment charges.
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