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What is a "transfer agent"? 

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This page gives details for only one aspect of the many HP/HPE-related stocks. Due to the sequence of spinoffs and acquisitions, you may now have shares of HPInc (HPQ), HPE, DXC, Keysight (KEYS), and/or Agilent (A) – in different accounts – and may not have received cash payouts for Micro Focus (MFGP) and Perspecta (PRSP). Transactions were often tracked and reported differently – or not at all. Only you – not the company, plan administrators, transfer agents, brokers, or the IRS – can reconstruct your full employee stock history.

Start here: HP/HPE-related stock 


- Details on what a transfer agent does: transfer agent Overview (pdf on Computershare site.)

- HPAA member advice on obtaining stock records

Find the current transfer agent for each HP-related company on the company's website:

Note 1: Hewlett-Packard Company. Long-time HP employees may have old statements from HP's previous transfer agents: Harris Trust, Computershare (which bought the Harris stock registry business), BNY Mellon, then Computershare again. Employee purchase administration is now at Fidelity NetBenefits.


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