Stock-2b. Compaq Stock Decoder. HP/HPE Alumni

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Compaq Stock Decoder. (HPAA stock decoders: Compaq DEC HP Tandem )

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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. HPAA's detailed Stock Decoder tables for: DEC Tandem

HP's purchase of Compaq was closed on May 3, 2002. Compaq shareholders received 0.6325 share of HPQ in exchange for each CPQ share -- 18% over market price. CPQ stock was retired. HWP stock symbol changed to HPQ.

HP Inc. is the legal successor to Compaq. Stockholder information and contact instructions: HPInc Investor Relations Site https://investor.hp.com/resources/contact-ir/default.aspx (scroll down)

For links and more detail on HP stock history, see our HP Stock Decoder

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: Members report that brokerages, plan administrators, and transfer agents vary (sometimes dramatically) in how (or if) they make gain/loss and cost basis calculations and in what they report to the IRS. Each of hundreds of firms is expected to read SEC filings, analyze Corporate Action Notices, and update the records they maintain on behalf of their clients.

The same four splits are listed in the last pre-merger copy of Compaq's Investor Relations website in the 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-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 Date	Corp Action	Target Symbol	Target CUSIP	Target Security Name	Rate	Cash	New Symbol	New CUSIP	New Security Name
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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