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Bronze Alexander Hamilton Award In Financial Risk Management

Hewlett-Packard Co. is the 2006 bronze AHA winner in financial risk management.

By Staff Writer | Updated on November 01, 2006

For many years, a top priority of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s share repurchase program has been to offset dilution from employee share programs. By mid-2005, HP had gone five years without significant dilution from employee stock option exercises. Then in 2005, HP’s shares began to rise, unleashing a flood of employee stock option exercises.

HP’s treasury had forecast the consequences of rising shares and had developed a tool to predict how many would be exercised at different prices. If the stock kept rising, “the number of shares [HP] would need to buy back to offset dilution would be much higher,” says Kenneth J. Frier, vice president of corporate treasury.

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