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Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported networking revenues of $2.89 billion, up 74.9% year over year on a reported basis and 10% on a normalized basis, with a segment operating margin of 22%. Within that segment, Campus & Branch revenues were $1.44 billion and Routing contributed $788 million, while normalized networking orders rose 36%, faster than revenue growth. Networks for AI orders reached $700 million in the quarter, bringing cumulative orders to $2.2 billion, and the company signed a gigawatt-scale deal with Oracle for routers and switches supporting a major AI cloud infrastructure buildout. HPE's third-quarter fiscal 2026 revenues of $12.21 billion rose 33.7% year over year, and management said networking purchase commitments more than doubled sequentially to improve supply availability and convert the elevated backlog. The Juniper acquisition is broadening HPE's reach across campus and branch, data center switching, routing and security, with integration ahead of schedule prompting HPE to raise its fiscal 2026 target to $2.5-$3 billion. HPE competes with Cisco and Arista Networks in AI networking; Cisco closed fiscal 2026 with $9.3 billion in hyperscaler AI infrastructure orders, about 4.5 times fiscal 2025, and expects hyperscaler AI revenues to reach $7.5 billion in fiscal 2027. HPE shares have rallied 159.4% year to date, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2026 earnings suggests year-over-year growth of 96.4%.

SB Energy's multi-billion-dollar initial public offering is advancing according to plan, a person familiar with the matter told Investing.com, dispelling reports of a delay. The clarification follows SB Energy's amended S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which confirmed preparations for listing on the Nasdaq under the ticker SBE are pressing ahead. The New York Times reported that SB Energy has struggled to find enough buyers at its targeted $50 billion-plus valuation, pushing the offering to at least mid-to-late October, though the source said no September launch window was ever confirmed. SB Energy is targeting a valuation of $50 billion or more and plans to raise between $5 billion and $7 billion, with up to $500 million earmarked for Japanese retail investors. Nvidia is purchasing an additional $1.5 billion in SB Energy stock ahead of the listing and providing up to $105 billion in project guarantees for an SB Energy AI data-center facility, while SoftBank Group retains a majority ownership stake and OpenAI holds a substantial equity stake as the primary data-center tenant. In the first half of 2026, SB Energy reported $139 million in revenue alongside a net loss of $3.21 billion, against a $439 billion contracted backlog, of which approximately $357 billion is expected to be recognized in 2034 or later.