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Perspecta Stock Issues (Updated Jun 22, 2025) This page gives additional details for only one of the many HP/HPE-related stocks. You may now have shares of HPQ, HPE, and/or DXC – in different accounts – and and may not have received cash payouts for MFGP and PRSP. Find it all – and estimate your current cost basis: Stock Step-by-Step (Not officially endorsed or supported.) Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? It shows your last transaction ("Year Reported.") Look up the "Type of Benefit" and "Payment Frequency" codes on the back. Who to contact: "Potential Benefit" letter If you ever worked for Perspecta: Info for Perspecta alumni Taxes on purchase of Perspecta by Peraton Cost basis for any DXC stock acquired through ownership of HP stock and the subsequent breakup of HP. Your Perspecta cost basis depends on the chain of spinoffs as HP was broken up: HP spun off HPE on 2015-10-21. HPE spun off DXC on 2017-03-20. DXC spun off Perspecta (PRSP) on 2018-05-25. On 2021-05-06, Perspecta was bought by Peraton. PRSP stock was retired. Peraton paid $29.35 cash in exchange for each Perspecta share -- a 49.7% premium over last closing price before public reports. PRSP shares have vanished from your account. Either cash was paid into your brokerage cash account or a check was mailed by approx. 2021-06-02. Step 1. Determine the average per-share cost basis for all the HPE stock you owned at the time of the Perspecta buyout. Stock Step-by-Step Step 2. Use your average per-share cost basis for your HPE stock and the information on this page to determine the cost basis of your Perspecta shares. What stock should I have? (A minor factor: At several stages, the number of shares you received was rounded down -- with cash paid for the fractional share.) DXC's Tax Basis Worksheet recommends allocating 87.06% to DXC and 12.94% to PRSP. (More info from DSC: Perspecta Merger Tax Documentation.) 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. Many transactions were reported differently or not at all. Retain your documents and calculations indefinitely. Admin and Broker Issues Peraton stock history Sequence of related stock events from Unofficial Stock Decoder table:
2021: Perspecta purchased by Peraton - Details May 6, 2021. PRSP was bought by privately-held Federal IT contractor Peraton. Peraton paid $29.35 cash in exchange for each Perspecta share -- a 49.7% premium over last closing price before public reports. PRSP shares have vanished from your account. Either cash was paid into your brokerage cash account or a check was mailed by approx. 6/2/21. Some non-U.S. members report that their bank charged a very high currency conversion fee when they deposited the check. Perspecta had 14,000 employees. Peraton previously bought part of Northrop Grumman. The resulting company has 22,000 employees -- 7,500 with Top Secret clearance. VirginiaBusiness news story new company structure It does not appear that small shareholders were individually notified of the completion of the sale. News Release Perspecta tax documentation: https://investors.dxc.com/resources/spin-off-tax-documentation What happens next depends on where your PRSP shares are held -- which, unless you moved them, will be at the same place your DXC shares are held (because DXC and Perspecta have chosen the same transfer agent.)
- If held in a brokerage account
(Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, etc.), the shares vanished from the
stock section of your account and cash was added to the cash
section of your account.
- If held by Perspecta's
transfer agent (EQ Equiniti shareowneronline.com), the
shares vanished from your EQ account and a check is being
mailed to your address of record: To check for lost stock and uncashed checks: Unclaimed Property Previous event: 2018 Perspecta spun off DXC - Details
On May 25, 2018, DXC spun off its 6,500-employee U.S.
Public Sector Business and merged it with 3,800-employee
intelligence community contractor Vencore and 3,700-employee
background investigation firm KeyPoint to create a
completely separate company,
Perspecta.
DXC Notice
If you owned DXC shares on May 25, 2018, you were issued shares in a new company called "Perspecta" -- with corresponding adjustment in value of your DXC shares. (This is not reflected in the HPAA's stock cost basis spreadsheets.) Stock details - 5/7/18 (including DXC's statement that the transaction is tax-free and a suggested "Tax Basis Worksheet') SEC filing Perspecta was a completely separate company from DXC -- not a legal successor to DXC. To check for lost stock: Perspecta is incorporated in Delaware PRSP Price Chart Note: Stock price charts do not always accurately reflect stock splits and other events. Background: Announcement - 10/11/17 and Transcript Press release - 3/8/18 Press release - 6/1/18 Cost basis: "...you will not recognize income, gain or loss as a result..." DXC/Perspecta tax basis letter DXC Investor Relations: https://investors.dxc.com/investor-relations From the "Resources" dropdown on the right, select "FAQs." Selecting "Spin-off Tax Documentation" gets you to the CSC/HPE and Perspecta tax documentation: https://investors.dxc.com/resources/spin-off-tax-documentation Finally, DXC's "Tax Basis Worksheet" for the Perspecta deal: https://s27.q4cdn.com/120381974/files/doc_downloads/2021/06/Tax-Basis-Worksheet.pdf "DXC assumed $600 million of net pension liability and $400 million of existing debt..." April 3, 2017 HPE press release on completion Your broker may have used a different formula than the one suggested in the Cost Basis letter provided by the company -- resulting in a somewhat different value. Check your brokerage account online -- or by examining a recent account statement -- to view your holdings in each stock going forward. Note 1. Yahoo Finance charts do not always accurately reflect stock splits and other events. Stock information and contacts: Perspecta transfer agent
(and distribution agent for the spinoff and merger) is Equiniti. (Source) DXC: Check both official DXC pages: Primary Employees and Alumni Unexpired HPE options: If you had unexpired HPE stock options and were transitioned to DXC, the HPE options in your Merrill Lynch account may have vanished in April 2017 -- with no notification. The HPE options were converted to DXC options and placed in a new Fidelity account. Presumably, something similar will be done for people transferred to Perspecta.
Fidelity: :If you have an existing HP 401(k) or personal brokerage
account at Fidelity, go to
http://netbenefits.com and use your existing username
and password. Otherwise, call 1-800-457-4015 (If no password, keep hitting #.) (Outside US
1-508-787-9902 collect.)
Fidelity (Don't go to a local Fidelity office, which is focused on sales.)
Peraton corporate address: (Source)
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