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Unofficial HP Alumni Stock Decoder (Step 1.)

This is Step 1 of our Stock Recovery process. There is a link to the next step at the end of this page. If you haven't gone through the previous steps, start here: Employee Stock

(Updated Sep 22, 2020.)  Questions or comments to: info@hpalumni.org  

Which companies might I have stock in?  Compare the date when you first acquired HP stock with the Record Dates in the left-hand column. The table is sorted by Record Date -- the date used to determine the number of shares or amount of cash each shareholder received.

Examples of how to use the table:

- If you owned any HP stock on 2000-05-02 (May 2, 2000) -- and have never sold any -- in addition to your stock in HP, you would now also have stock in Agilent, Keysight, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, Micro Focus, and Perspecta. You would have also have received cash and stock in the Micro Focus "Return of Value."

- If you owned any HP stock on 2015-10-21 (Oct 21, 2015) -- and have never sold any -- in addition to your stock in HP, you would now also have stock in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, Micro Focus, and Perspecta. You would have also have received cash and stock in the Micro Focus "Return of Value."

Employee stock information for those from:  Agilent    Autonomy    Compaq    DEC    DXC    EDS    Keysight    Micro Focus    Perspecta    Tandem

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Step 1. What happened?

Record Date    

Event

Old stock symbol 

For each share of the old stock owned on that date, you ended up with...

New stock symbol

 Market price history chart

Details

 

Check for lost stock or dividends  

Current Transfer Agent

In HPAA cost spreadsheets?

1960 to 1996

HP split the stock seven times

HWP

  

2 or 3

  

shares of HWP

HWP

Chart (HPQ)

Note 2

Split History

 

Delaware

Equiniti
(scroll down)

yes
1997-09-02   Compaq bought Tandem   TDM     0.21     share of CPQ (42% over market price)  Article   CPQ      

TDM Stock Decoder

         (n/a)   (n/a)  
1998-06-12   Compaq bought DEC   DEC     0.945     share of CPQ plus $30 cash (25% over market price)  Article   CPQ      

DEC Stock Decoder

         (n/a)   (n/a)  

2000-05-02

HP spun off Agilent

HWP

 

0.381

 

share of Agilent.

A

Chart (Agilent)

Note 2

Discussion

 

Delaware

Computershare

yes

2000-09-27

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

  

2

  

share of HWP

HWP

Chart (HPQ)

Note 2

Details

 

Delaware

Equiniti
(scroll down)

yes

2002-05-03

HP bought Compaq

CPQ

  

0.633

  

share of HWP (18% over market price)  CPQ Stock Discussion

HPQ

Chart (HPQ)

Note 2

CPQ Stock Decoder

 

Delaware

(n/a)

(n/a)

2002-05-06

HP changed symbol to HPQ

HWP

  

1

  

stock symbol changed to HPQ.

HPQ

Chart (HPQ)

Note 2

Details

 

Delaware

Equiniti
(scroll down)

yes

2006-10-16

Agilent spun off Verigy

A

 

0.122

 

share of Verigy.

VRGY

- -

Discussion

 

 

(n/a)

yes

2008-08-26

HP bought EDS

EDS

  

$25

  

cash from HP (32% over market price)

- -

- -

Discussion

 

Delaware (Texas 1962-1984)

(n/a)

(n/a)

2011-07-04

Verigy bought Advantest (Japanese)

VRGY

 

$15

 

cash from Advantest

- -

- -

 

Discussion
Details
Options

 

 

(n/a)

(n/a)

2011-10-03

HP bought Autonomy (British)

AU

  

£25.50

  

cash from HP (64% over market price)

- -

- -

Discussion

 

 

(n/a)

(n/a)

2014-10-22

Agilent spun off Keysight

A

 

0.5

 

share of Keysight.

KEYS

Chart (KEYS)

Note 2

Discussion

 

Delaware

Computershare

yes
                                                 

2015-10-21

HP spun off HPE

HPQ

 

1

 

share of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

HPE

Chart (HPE)

Note 2

Discussion

 

Delaware

Equiniti

yes

2015-10-21

HP renamed HPInc

HPQ

   

(HPInc stock symbol not changed)

- -

- -

Discussion

 

Delaware

Equiniti
(scroll down)

yes

2017-03-20

HPE spin/merge with CSC, creating DXC

HPE

 

0.086

 

share of DXC. (temporary "Everett SpinCo")

DXC

Chart (DXC)

Note 2

Discussion

 

Nevada

Equiniti

yes

2017-09-01

HPE spun off Seattle SpinCo

HPE

 

1

 

share of temporary "Seattle SpinCo."

- -

- -

 

 

(n/a)

(n/a)

yes
 

Seattle SpinCo spin/merge with Micro Focus (British)

- -

 

0.137

 

Micro Focus ADSs (American Depositary Shares.)

MFGP (in US)

Chart (MFGP)

Note 2

Discussion
Article

 

US ADSs: New York?

AST

partly (see Note 1)
   

Potential Micro Focus "Seattle SpinCo" 2017 US tax liability

  

2018-05-25

DXC spin/merge, creating Perspecta

DXC

 

0.5

 

share of Perspecta. ("Ultra SpinCo")

PRSP

Chart (PRSP)

Note 2

Discussion

 

Delaware

Equiniti

no

2019-04-30

Micro Focus "Return of Value"

MFGP

 

0.8296

 

share of MFGP plus ~$4.35 cash

MFGP (US)

Chart (MFGP)

Note 2

Details

 

US ADSs: New York?

AST

no (see Note 1)
    Details and tax issues for Micro Focus "Return of Value"     Micro Focus Update  

Note 1. The cost basis treatment for the original spin/merge used in the HPAA spreadsheets is based on the opinion provided by HPE's outside tax counsel. However, some brokers and administrators apparently interpreted the transaction differently -- or did not report, or reported incorrectly -- to the IRS. The variation in reporting of the original spin/merge means that the April 2019 Micro Focus "Return of Value" transaction cannot be included in the HPAA spreadsheets.

Note 2. Yahoo Finance charts do not always accurately reflect stock splits and other events.

Background on dates. There are four dates associated with any stock event. The Announcement Date. The Record Date, used in this table and specified in the announcement, is the date used to determine the number of shares or amount of cash each shareholder receives. The next stock market business day is the Effective Date. The Distribution Date, usually weeks later, is the actual distribution of the additional shares or cash.

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