Hewlett-Packard's Q3 earnings are out early: EPS of $0.93 on revenue of $31.2 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $1.10.
That's slightly ahead of what Wall Street was expecting: non-GAAP EPS of $1.09 on sales of $31.19 billion.
The company also confirmed rumors that it is considering spinning off its PC business.
It also surprised investors by shutting down the TouchPad business, only a few weeks after the tablet launched -- a report on Tuesday said that Best Buy had sold only about 25,000 out of an order of more than 270,000.
Update: The official earnings release crossed the wire around 4 pm ET. In it, HP confirmed that it's buying Autonomy for $42.11 per share.
The release also contains the usual breakdown of HP's results by business unit, and it's pretty clear why it's not happy with the PC business -- the company's Personal Systems Group posted its third year-to-year decline in a row, off 3%. Consumer PC revenue was particularly weak -- down 17%.
Printing -- long a strong point for HP -- revenue was also down 1%.
The standouts were financing (up 22%), software (+20%) and enterprise (+7%)
HP also guided investors that it now expects full year fiscal 2011 revenue between $127.2 billion and $127.6 billion, diluted EPS of $3.59 to $3.70, and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $4.82 to $4.86.
