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Hewlett Packard Enterprise was spun out of Hewlett Packard Inc. (now known as HP Inc.) in November 2015. Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides core IT gear including high-performance computing and mission critical servers; industry standard servers; storage and networking gear; and financing services. In 2017, HPE spun off its IT outsourcing, BPO, and applications services unit and its noncore software business. Niche acquisitions include Nimble (all-flash storage), SimpliVity (converged infrastructure), and Cray (super-computing). In 2024, HPE announced the planned acquisition of Juniper Networks.

Broadcom Inc. is a top-five global fabless semiconductor company with leading franchises in wired and wireless communications, enterprise data center and storage, and other end markets. The former Avago acquired Broadcom for $37 billion in 2016 and changed its name to Broadcom Inc. The company has grown via hardware acquisitions, including Agere, LSI Logic, Brocade and Emulex; and software acquisitions, including CA Inc. in November 2018 and Symantec's enterprise security business in November 2019. Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware in December 2023.

The major market indices are sharply lower and momentum is downward at midday. The Nasdaq is taking the hardest hit. This follows the much-anticipated August Jobs report out this morning. Nonfarm payrolls came in at 142,000 for August, below expectations of 165,000. The unemployment rate edged back down to 4.2% after the surprise jump to 4.3% last month. The markets will continue to spend the day interpreting what this report signals for the health of the U.S. labor market, and how the Fed might interpret the bigger picture of the health of the economy. We at Argus forecast a 25 bps rate cut this month, followed by equal size cuts in November and December, so three cuts in total this year. We believe recent data reinforces our forecast.

Shoals Technologies Group is a provider of electrical balance of system solutions for solar energy projects, primarily in the United States. EBOS encompasses components that are necessary to carry electric current produced by solar panels to an inverter. The products are sold principally to engineering, procurement, and construction firms that build solar energy projects.