SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Dell Inc: * Dell inc's PC rivals dismiss move as disruptive * Hewlett-Packard co says Dell 'faces an extended period of uncertainty By Marshall Hargrave : With all the speculation around the potential Dell (NASDAQ: DELL ) buyout, which has sent the computer company up 18%, why isn't Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) getting more attention? Why is no one talking about a potential buyout of HP? Well HP's stock does appear to be ... By Adam Levine-Weinberg: Like many other PC makers, Dell Inc. ( DELL ) has been suffering from commoditization in recent years. Of course, Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) has been able to maintain a premium for its desktop and laptop offerings, even while creating (and dominating) new categories with the iPad ... By BubbleBustInvesting : For years, Hewlett-Packard's ( HPQ ) stock has been on a rapid decline. Last month the stock traded close to the $10 mark, near its 2001 low and a long way from its all-time high of $70. In the last three weeks, the stock has rebounded nicely, however. Last Friday, it was ... More on Gartner PC sales : Hewlett-Packard (H-P) regained its crown from Lenovo as the world's leading seller of PCs despite H-P's shipments not growing from a year ago and despite Lenovo's climbing 8.2%. Dell ( DELL ) was in third place, although sales slumped 21%, while Acer was in fourth as ... Rafael Grillo submits: With both the pervasive role that smart phones are increasingly playing in our lives, and the advent of the iPad ( AAPL )and the slew of me-too tablets in the making, the future of the PC -- be it desktops or laptops -- has been in question. The assumption is that these new ... By Vinayak Maheswaran : I have been investigating some large cap tech stocks and I am going to discuss those that offer a good return on investment for a value investor. My analysis here is based on the ratios in the financial statements of the Hewlett-Packard Company ( HPQ ) over the last 5 years. ... By Marshall Hargrave : It seems every day that Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ) is in the news for something. Whether it's related to the accounting scandals at subsidiary Autonomy, the Dell buyout, or the death of the PC industry in favor of the faster growing mobile market. Many smart money managers have ... By Jacob Steinberg : In the last quarter Hewlett-Packard Co. ( HPQ ) earned $1 per share , excluding one-time costs such as acquisitions, beating estimates of 98 cents per share. The company reduced its future guidance slightly from $4.07 to $4.05. On Tuesday, many investors of Hewlett-Packard were ... By Vince Martin : Dell ( DELL ) stock continues to struggle with a low valuation -- just 7.6 times trailing earnings at Monday's close of $16.13. On their face, the reasons seem obvious: Growth in the PC market continues to stagnate, as Gartner has noted . Intense competition in the consumer ...