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Schwab issues with HP-related employee stock   (Jun 24, 2024)  Click to join the HPAA   Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org

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.

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In recent decades, when you left the company any shares you owned were automatically moved from an employer-paid account at a plan administrator -- NetBenefits at Fidelity, MyBenefits at Merrill, StockPlan Connect at Morgan Stanley -- to a personal account at their brokerage division. An annual fee is often charged, which can drain a small account. Details of your purchase lots should be preserved. However, if you move the shares to a different brokerage, shares will be moved in a single lot. Some brokers let you correct the records to include lot-by-lot cost basis data.


Schwab bought TDAmeritrade on Oct 6, 2020.

Cost Basis. can you correct your broker's records to include lot-by-lot cost basis data?

"Cost Basis Fact Sheet"
https://www.schwab.com/public/file/P-5799523   [link updated Jun 24, 2024]
Call them. "Want to confirm or adjust your current cost basis method? Talk with your Schwab Financial Consultant."

https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/save-on-taxes-know-your-cost-basis#  [link checked Jun 24, 2024]
(We don't have any member reports as to how well this works in practice.)

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