PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- Jan 26, 2017 -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that the Hewlett Packard Enterprise board of directors has declared a regular cash dividend of $0.065 per share on the company's common stock.

This dividend, the second in Hewlett Packard Enterprise's fiscal year 2017, is payable on or about April 5, 2017, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 15, 2017.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has approximately 1.666 billion shares of common stock outstanding.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry's most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

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