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Administrator and Broker Issues    (Page updated Feb 24, 2026)  Not officially endorsed or supported.

This page gives details for only one aspect of the many HP/HPE-related stocks. Due to the sequence of spinoffs and acquisitions, you may now have shares of HPInc (HPQ), HPE, DXC, Keysight (KEYS), and/or Agilent (A) – in different accounts – and may not have received cash payouts for Micro Focus (MFGP) and Perspecta (PRSP). Transactions were often tracked and reported differently – or not at all. Only you – not the company, plan administrators, transfer agents, brokers, or the IRS – can reconstruct your full employee stock history. Find it all – and verify or estimate your current cost basis.

Start here: HP/HPE-related stock 


Before Nov 1, 2000, the HP employee stock purchase program was administered by HP's stock transfer agent. When you left the company, the stock stayed at the transfer agent, currently EQ (Equiniti.)

Since 2000, the employee stock purchase program has been administered by Fidelity, "MyBenefits" at Merrill, or "StockPlan Connect" at Morgan Stanley. When you left the company any shares you owned were automatically moved from an employer-paid account at the plan administrator to a personal account at their brokerage division. An annual fee is often charged, which can drain a small account. Details of your purchase lots should be preserved. However, if you move the shares to a different brokerage, shares will be moved in a single lot. Some brokers let you correct the records to include lot-by-lot cost basis data.

If you transfer stock out of an account at a transfer agent, administrator, or brokerage, you must obtain a "Medallion Signature Guarantee." https://www.hpalumni.org/StockMedallion

If there is a stock spinoff, the new stock will either be at the spun-off company's Transfer Agent or in your personal Stock Brokerage account -- depending on where the parent stock was located.


Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org

Letter from "EQ Unify" about your stock? You must take action. Letter is unclear and doesn't cover all choices.

What will be reported? Transactions were often tracked and reported differently – or not at all. Due to the many complex HP-related stock events, only you – not the company, plan administrators, transfer agents, brokers, or the IRS – can reconstruct your full employee stock history. Retain your documents and tax calculations indefinitely.

"Noncovered" Security -- Definition, Reporting Rules, vs. "Covered" Investopedia on "Noncovered" securities

We have info on issues reported by HPAA members about specific brokers and administrators:

- Fidelity stock issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockFidelity 

- Merrill Lynch issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockMerrillLynch  

- Morgan Stanley issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockMorganStanley  

- Schwab stock issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockSchwab/TDAmeritrade 

- TDAmeritrade stock issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockTDAmeritrade 

- Vanguard stock issues: https://www.hpalumni.org/StockVanguardBrokerage

Long-time HP employees may have old statements from HP's previous transfer agents -- which also administered the employee stock purchase plans over the years: Employee Stock Administrator Decoder


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