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Which companies might I have stock in? The table is sorted by record date. Compare the date when you first acquired HP stock with the dates in Column 1.

For example, if you owned any HP stock on May 2, 2000 -- and had never sold any -- in addition to your stock in HP, you would also have stock in Agilent, Keysight, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, Micro Focus, and Perspecta.

Other HPAA stock decoders: Compaq DEC Tandem

There are four dates associated with any stock event. The announcement date. The Record Date, specified in the announcement, 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. This table is sorted by Record Date.

Compare the date when you first acquired HP stock with the dates in Column 1.

Step 1. What happened?

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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 spread- sheets?

1960 to 1996

HP split the stock seven times

HWP

2 or 3

shares of HWP

HWP

Equiniti (scroll down)

yes

2000-05-02

HP spun off Agilent

HWP

0.381

share of Agilent.

A

yes

2000-09-27

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

share of HWP

HWP

Equiniti (scroll down)

yes

2002-05-03

HP bought Compaq

CPQ

0.633

share of HWP (18% premium)

HPQ

(n/a)

(n/a)

2002-05-06

HP changed symbol to HPQ

HWP

1

stock symbol changed to HPQ.

HPQ

Equiniti (scroll down)

yes

2006-10-16

Agilent spun off Verigy

A

0.122

share of Verigy.

VRGY

- -

?

(n/a)

yes

2008-08-26

HP bought EDS

EDS

$25

cash from HP (32% premium)

- -

- -

(n/a)

(n/a)

2011-07-04

Verigy bought by Japanese Advantest

VRGY

$15

cash from Advantest

- -

- -

?

(n/a)

(n/a)

2011-10-03

HP bought British Autonomy

AU

£25.50

cash from HP (64% premium)

- -

- -

?

(n/a)

(n/a)

2014-10-22

Agilent spun off Keysight

A

0.5

share of Keysight.

KEYS

yes

2015-10-21

HP spun off HPE

HPQ

1

share of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

HPE

Wells Fargo [now Equiniti]

yes

2015-10-21

HP renamed HP Inc

HPQ

(stock symbol not changed)

- -

- -

yes

2017-03-20

HPE spin/merge with CSC, creating DXC

HPE

0.086

share of DXC. ("Everett SpinCo")

DXC

Wells Fargo [now Equiniti]

yes

2017-09-01

HPE spun off Seattle SpinCo

HPE

1

share of temporary "Seattle SpinCo."

- -

- -

(See Micro Focus)

(n/a)

(n/a)

yes

2017-09-01

Seattle spin/merge with British Micro Focus

- -

0.137

Micro Focus ADSs (American Depositary Shares.)

MFGP (in US)

US ADSs: New York?

yes

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

not yet

2019-04-30

Micro Focus "Return of Value"

MFGP

0.8296

share of MFGP plus ~$4.35 cash

MFGP (in US)

US ADSs: New York?

not yet

Other predecessor companies, such as Indigo, Mercury, Opsware, Peregrine, etc. Predecessor company stock

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