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Employee Stock Administrator Decoder. (Page updated Aug 14, 2025) Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org
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.
Start here: HP/HPE-related stock
Member advice on Obtaining Stock Records
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:
- Harris Trust.
- Computershare. Bought the Harris stock registry business in 2001.
- ChaseMellon. Joint venture between Mellon and Chase in 1995.
- BNY Mellon. Unencrypted backup tapes with information on 12 million shareholders -- including HP's -- were twice lost by BNY couriers in 2008. (We got one year of identity monitoring service. No members reported breaches.)
- Computershare again. Bought the Mellon stock registry business in 2012.
Currently:
- HP's transfer agent is Equiniti. Bought Shareowner Services division of Wells Fargo in 2019.
- HP employee purchase administration is now at the benefits administration division of Fidelity.
So far members report finding paperwork for their HP/HPE-related stock and options from the following 13 administrators -- hired at various times over the years by the various HP-related companies.
In alphabetical order:
- AST (American Stock Transfer) which is now part of Equiniti (Micro Focus deal.)
- BNY Mellon
- Chase/Mellon (Administrator for "Hewlett-Packard Share Ownership Plan" which replaced the "Stock Purchase Plan" on Nov 1, 2000.)
- Computershare
- Equiniti (formerly the Shareowner Services division of Wells Fargo.)
- Fidelity NetBenefits division
- Fiserv (HP options)
- Harris Bank and Trust
- Morgan Stanley
- Merrill Lynch MyBenefits division (Merrill Lynch also has a separate local-office-based retail brokerage division)
- Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley)
- StockCross (HP options)
- Wells Fargo Shareholder Services division (now Equiniti.)
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