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For Compaq Alumni (Updated Nov 2, 2026) Not officially endorsed or supported. Click to join our forums Question? Email us: hpalumni.info@gmail.com HPInc is the overall legal successor to Hewlett-Packard Company and to companies acquired before Nov 1, 2015 – Compaq, EDS, etc. – regardless of whether a business unit ended up in HPInc or HPE. Unofficial directory of HP/HPE acquisitions For employees of HP – and predecessor companies – who left before the HPInc/HPE separation, responsibility for any health or retirement benefits varies from country to country, depending on employee population. For the US, HPInc has responsibility. For Canada and UK, HPE has responsibility. In many countries, plans were split between HPInc and HPE. See: Where are my benefits? Key contact: The HP Retirement Service Center at Fidelity is the primary administrator for HP Inc US pension and 401(k) accounts. This includes accounts for companies that Hewlett-Packard acquired before Nov 1, 2015 (Compaq, DEC, EDS, etc.) -- and historical records for accounts that were transferred to Prudential in 2020. 1-800-457-4015 (If no password, keep hitting #.) (Outside US 1-508-787-9902 collect.) https://nb.fidelity.com If difficulty on a call or chat, ask for Fidelity's "HP Inc team." (Local Fidelity offices are focused on sales.) Compaq history – Books, articles, websites, video. Select the links below that fit your situation... - Current HP Inc or HPE employee: Networking and Information for Current Employees. Join Ex-Compaq* group on LinkedIn. - HP Inc or HPE employee in the process of leaving: use the ASAP checklist. Join Ex-Compaq* and HP/HPE - Unofficial groups on LinkedIn. - Former Compaq employee who never worked for HP: Join Ex-Compaq* group on LinkedIn. - Facebook: "Compaq Computer Corporation Community" 800 members. Public Group. Operated and moderated by Lori Lihudis Tubb. Link *The Ex-Compaq group on LinkedIn is operated by Compaq alumni, not by the HPAA. Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? Saw an ad about unclaimed property? Who to contact: https://www.hpalumni.org/PotentialBenefitLetter If you have paper stock certificates. What to do: Stock Certificates The first two segments of a plan number are the "EIN" – IRS Employer Identification Number. For example, 94-1081436 for HP. Compaq 401(k): 76-0011617-001 "Compaq Computer Corporation 401(k) Investment Plan" - Administrator: The HP Retirement Service Center at Fidelity is the primary administrator for HP Inc US pension and 401(k) accounts. This includes accounts for companies that Hewlett-Packard acquired before Nov 1, 2015 (Compaq, DEC, EDS, etc.) -- and historical records for accounts that were transferred to Prudential in 2020. 1-800-457-4015 (If no password, keep hitting #.) (Outside US 1-508-787-9902 collect.) https://nb.fidelity.com If difficulty on a call or chat, ask for Fidelity's "HP Inc team." (Local Fidelity offices are focused on sales.) - Previous administrator before Compaq was sold to HP – Vanguard. - Be sure you have a valid beneficiary designation on file at Fidelity. - Benefits under 401(k) plans are not insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC.) - For details of the plan, see the last SEC report on the Compaq 401(k) Plan (from 2002, the year that Compaq was sold to HP.) Compaq/NetWorth 401(k): 76-0011617-002 "NetWorth Inc 401K Pension Plan" [Compaq acquired NetWorth Inc of Irving, TX in 1995.] - Administrator: The HP Retirement Service Center at Fidelity is the primary administrator for HP Inc US pension and 401(k) accounts. This includes accounts for companies that Hewlett-Packard acquired before Nov 1, 2015 (Compaq, DEC, EDS, etc.) -- and historical records for accounts that were transferred to Prudential in 2020. 1-800-457-4015 (If no password, keep hitting #.) (Outside US 1-508-787-9902 collect.) https://nb.fidelity.com If difficulty on a call or chat, ask for Fidelity's "HP Inc team." (Local Fidelity offices are focused on sales.) - Previous administrator before Compaq was sold to HP – unknown. - Be sure you have a valid beneficiary designation on file at Fidelity. - Benefits under 401(k) plans are not insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC.) - Cannot find a Form 5500 report filed since January 1, 2010 on this plan. HP merger with Compaq. Before the deal was announced on September 3, 2001, Compaq stock was down to $12 – from $49 in 1999. Compaq management and board negotiated a merger at 18% over market price. (90% of Compaq shares were voted in favor; 51% of HP shares were voted in favor.) Deal closed on May 3, 2002. HWP stock symbol was changed to HPQ. Compaq shareholders received 0.6325 share of HPQ in exchange for each CPQ share. CPQ stock was retired. (Compaq had bought Tandem on Sep 2, 1997 and bought DEC on Jun 12, 1998.) Hewlett-Packard breakup. On Nov 1, 2015, the legal name of the Hewlett-Packard Company was changed to HP Inc. ("hp" logo, HPQ stock symbol) and a new, completely separate company focused on servers, cloud, and networking – Hewlett Packard Enterprise ("HPE" logo and stock symbol) – was spun off. Portions of HPE were later spun off into DXC and Micro Focus. Details: HP Breakup Which HP-related companies have me classified as a retiree or former employee? Due to acquisitions and spinoffs, may not be obvious: Which Company Contacts at HP Inc. – the successor company: HP contacts Make sure that the overall legal successor to every company you ever worked for has your current postal address. Even if not classified by the company as a "Retiree" or if long gone – in case of pension plan changes, employment lawsuits, settlements, or other issues. Update address at former company Update and strengthen your LinkedIn profile. Even if not currently looking, you need a strong, credible LinkedIn profile. Reconnect with people who know your work. Be found for your specialty and background by AI, recruiters, and managers. Your profile may look bogus due to changes made without your knowledge. Examples: Most HP positions were changed to HPE; LinkedIn has been robotically eliminating and standardizing company names with odd results. Member advice on settings, networking, emails. hpalumni.org/LinkedIn Stock. Depending on how you acquired stock – and due to spinoffs and acquisitions – you may now have shares of HPInc, HPE, DXC, Keysight, and/or Agilent – in different accounts – and may not have received cash payouts for Micro Focus and Perspecta. Shares, payouts, or dividends may have been turned over to a state as "unclaimed property." Find it all – and verify or estimate your current cost basis: HP/HPE-related stock How one broker handled stock history for: Compaq DEC Tandem If you bought CPQ shares under the Compaq employee stock purchase plan, those shares were automatically converted to HPQ shares at the time of the merger. Unless you have sold or transferred them, the shares (and your corresponding new Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other spinoff shares) are being held by the last administrator of the plan, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney – which is no longer being paid by the company for this work. Details and HPAA advice for former CPQ employee shareholders Morgan Stanley customers are getting different results from different divisions of the company – depending on whether they were participants in the Compaq Employee Stock Purchase Plan or had transferred their HP stock to a personal account at Morgan Stanley's local-office-based retail brokerage division. Morgan Stanley issues reported by members Service at HP predecessor companies. Of HPInc's many predecessors, only HP and DEC ever built retiree healthcare trust funds. Employees of other acquisitions generally did get service credit for retiree benefits. Depending on your age and history with HP and predecessors, you may qualify for either the former, current, or DEC retiree medical plan. (For the more-generous former plan -- confusingly named "Pre-2003" -- you must have been born on or before June 30, 1957 -- unless your were in certain EER cycles or otherwise notified.) See detailed rules in the Summary Plan Description: https://www.hpalumni.org/HPIncHealthSPD.pdf If rules were misapplied or HP's records were in error, members have successfully appealed -- see page 40 of the SPD for the contact at Corporate. Search for the predecessor company in the SPD. (Ctrl-F, F3, or Command-F.) Of HPInc's many predecessors, only HP, DEC, and EDS ever built US pension plan trust funds. The DEC and EDS plans became sub-plans under the HP/HPInc plan; benefits stopped accruing; terms did not change. Employees of all acquired companies joined the HP/HPInc pension or 401(k) retirement plan in effect after the time of acquisition. Details on HP-related pensions: https://www.hpalumni.org/RetirementPlans Employment verification for former employees of HP, HPE, and related companies -- worldwide. https://www.hpalumni.org/verif Reconnect, celebrate the good times, and appreciate those who have passed. Leading Compaq- and HP-related Facebook groups – which you can join without disclosing personal info: https://www.hpalumni.org/facebook Contacts for former HP and HPE employees: Contacts |
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