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Compaq Stock Decoder.
(Related HPAA stock decoders:
DEC
HP
Tandem )
(Updated
Aug 14,
2025) Not officially endorsed or supported.
This page gives details for only one aspect of the many HP/HPE-related stocks. If you were ever an HP shareholder, you may now have shares of HPQ, HPE, Keysight, and/or Agilent – in different accounts. If ever an HPE shareholder, you may now have shares of DXC – and may not have received cash payouts for MFGP and PRSP.
Only you – not the company, plan administrators, transfer
agents, brokers, or the IRS – can reconstruct your full stock
history. Transactions were often tracked and reported
differently – or not at all.
When finished with this page, go to: HP/HPE-Related Stocks
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 Effective Date.
Compare the date when you first acquired Compaq stock with the dates
in the left-hand column. If you
acquired DEC or Tandem stock before those companies were bought by
Compaq, those batches of stock should be tracked separately.
How one broker handled stock history for:
DEC
Tandem
If you have paper stock certificates. What to do:
Stock Certificates
Keep your postal address current on every financial account. And run an "unclaimed property" search every year.
Employer does not update your address. Employer does not update your address. Financial institutions are required to turn over inactive accounts to the state. Neither
cashing dividend checks, receiving direct deposits, accessing accounts online,
nor receiving statements prevents this – only a
personally-initiated transaction, postal response, or call. Difficult to retrieve funds
– and
stock is sold. Easy to check:
Unclaimed Property
The table below is from the online system available to customers of
one broker, Charles Schwab & Co. The HPAA member who
contributed this table did not hold this stock before 1990.
Note: 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 stock history. Transactions were often tracked and reported differently – or not at all. Retain your documents and tax calculations indefinitely.
Admin and Broker Issues
The same four splits are listed in the last pre-merger copy of Compaq's
Investor Relations website in the
independent non-profit Internet Archive. "Compaq stock has split four times since it began
trading in 1983."
This table only covers stock HP/HPE events through
04/30/2019. See our
HP Stock Decoder
for subsequent HP/HPE-related stock events. Corporate
Action Summary
[Note: This is how broker Charles Schwab handled each
event -- your broker may have handled some of them differently.]
Effective Corp Target Target Target Rate Cash New New New 07/09/1990 Stock Split CPQ 204493100 COMPAQ COMPUTER
CORP 2:1 06/08/1994 Stock Split CPQ 204493100 COMPAQ COMPUTER
CORP 3:1 07/29/1997 Stock Split CPQ 204493100 COMPAQ COMPUTER
CORP 5:2 01/21/1998 Stock Split CPQ 204493100 COMPAQ COMPUTER
CORP 2:1 05/06/2002 Merger CPQ 204493100 COMPAQ COMPUTER
CORP 0.6325 HWP 428236103 HEWLETT PACKARD
CO 05/06/2002 Name/Symbol
Change HWP 428236103 HEWLETT PACKARD
CO HPQ 428236103 HEWLETT PACKARD
CO 11/02/2015
Distrib/Spin-Off HPQ 428236103 HEWLETT PACKARD
CO 1 HPE 42824C109 HEWLETT PACKARD
ENTERPRISE 11/02/2015 Exchange HPQ 428236103 HEWLETT PACKARD
CO 1 HPQ 40434L105 HPInc 04/03/2017
Distrib/Spin-Off HPE 42824C109 HEWLETT PACKARD
ENTERPRISE 0.0859 DXC 23355L106 DXC TECHNOLOGY
CO 09/01/2017
Distrib/Spin-Off HPE 42824C109 HEWLETT PACKARD
ENTERPRISE 1 42824C992 42824C992 SEATTLE SPIN CO 09/01/2017 Merger 42824C992 42824C992 SEATTLE SPIN CO 0.1373 MFGP 594837304 MICRO FOCUS
INTERNATIONAL P 06/01/2018
Distrib/Spin-Off DXC 23355L106 DXC TECHNOLOGY
CO 0.5 PRSP 715347100 PERSPECTA INC 04/30/2019 Reverse Stock
Split MFGP 594837304 MICRO FOCUS
INTERNATIONAL P 185:223 MFGP 594837403 MICRO FOCUS
INTERNATIONAL P
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