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HPAA's Complete Stock Decoder Table  (Mar 1, 2024)

Question? Email: info@hpalumni.org

This is the central source information page for our Stock Recovery and Cost Basis Process.

If you don't have good records -- or didn't get your lot-and-cost information into your broker's system -- you can use our spreadsheets to develop a reasonable estimate of your cost basis for most HP/HPE-related stocks for any span of HP employment through the 11/1/2000 plan changeover. hpalumni.org/StockSpread

Which companies might I have stock in?  Compare the date when you first acquired HP stock with the Record Dates in the left-hand column. The table is sorted by Record Date -- the date used to determine the number of shares or amount of cash each shareholder received.

Examples of how to use the table:

- If you owned any HP stock on 2000-05-02 (May 2, 2000) -- and have not sold all of it -- as of March 2023 you would have stock in six companies: HPInc, Agilent, Keysight, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, and Micro Focus. You received cash and replacement stock in April 2019 from the Micro Focus "Return of Value." You were paid cash in May 2021 for your former stock in Perspecta.

- If you owned any HP stock on 2015-10-21 (Oct 21, 2015) -- and have not sold all of it -- as of March 2023 you would have stock in four companies: HP Inc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, and Micro Focus. You received cash and replacement stock in April 2019 from the Micro Focus "Return of Value." You were paid cash in May 2021 for your former stock in Perspecta.

Next step:  Where is my stock?

HPAA Stock Decoder Table

The information on this site was developed by a team of former employees using archived SEC filings, contemporaneous press releases, and investor information often no longer available on the HP website.


What happened?
(Step 2)
Find your stock
(Steps 3 and  4)
Cost basis
(Step 6)
 



 

Record Date    

Event

Old stock symbol   

For each share of the old stock owned on that date, you ended up with...

New stock symbol

More info

Check for
unclaimed
stock or dividends  

Official Investor FAQ,
with current transfer agent

Basis allocated to old stock
Note 6
Basis allocated
to new
stock
Note 6

In HPAA spread-
sheets?




 
1947-08-18

HP incorporated in California

        Splits            
1957-11-06

HP Initial Public Offering (OTC)

HWP   (Traded on the Over The Counter market.) HWP        

1960-09-01

HP stock split 3 for 1

HWP

3

shares of HWP (the only 3:1 split)

HWP

  33%

yes

1961-03-17

HP listed on NYSE

HWP   (Traded on the New York Stock Exchange) HWP        

1970-02-25

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50%

yes

1979-06-27

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50% 

yes

1981-06-17

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50% 

yes

1983-08-01

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50% 

yes

1995-03-24

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50% 

yes

1996-06-21

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

  50% 

yes

1998-02-11

HP reincorporated in Delaware

HWP   (Note 3) HWP  

Delaware

         

2000-05-02

HP spun off Agilent

HWP

0.381

share of Agilent

A

Details

Delaware

Agilent

78% 22%

yes

2000-09-27

HP stock split 2 for 1

HWP

2

shares of HWP

HWP

Splits

Delaware

HP Inc
(scroll down)

  50% 

yes

2002-05-03

HP bought Compaq with HWP shares. CPQ stock was retired.
(Compaq had bought Tandem on Sep 2, 1997
and bought DEC on Jun 12, 1998.)

CPQ

0.6325

CPQ holders got fractional share of HWP in exchange (18% over market price) 

(CPQ)

Details

Delaware

(n/a)

   

(n/a)

2002-05-06

HP changed stock symbol from HWP to HPQ

HWP

1

stock symbol changed to HPQ ("Q" from the Compaq symbol)

HPQ

Details

Delaware

HP Inc
(scroll down)

   

yes

2006-10-16

Agilent spun off Verigy

A

0.122

share of Verigy

VRGY

Details

 

(n/a)

94.22% 5.78%

yes

2008-08-26

HP bought EDS with cash. EDS stock was retired. Checks for $25/share sent.
EDS was temporarily structured as a subsidiary, "EDS, an HP Company."
On Sep 23, 2009, it was renamed "HP Enterprise Services."

EDS

$25

EDS holders got cash from HP in exchange (32% over market price)

Note 5

Details

Delaware

Note 4

(n/a)

   

(n/a)

2011-07-04

Verigy bought by Advantest (Japan)

VRGY

$15

cash from Advantest in exchange

Note 5

Details

 

(n/a)

   

(n/a)

2011-10-31

HP bought Autonomy (UK) with cash. AUTNF stock was retired.

AUTNF

£25.50

Autonomy holders got cash from HP in exchange (79% over market price)

Note 5

Details

 

(n/a)

   

(n/a)

2014-10-22

Agilent spun off Keysight

A

0.5

share of Keysight

KEYS

Details

Delaware

Keysight

72.39% 27.61%

yes

2015-10-21

HP spun off HPE

HPQ

1

share of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

HPE

Details

Delaware

HPE

47.15% 52.85%

yes

2015-10-21

Continuing PC and printer company renamed HP Inc.

HPQ

Was "Hewlett-Packard Company" (stock symbol not changed)

HPQ

Details

Delaware

HP Inc
(scroll down)

   

yes

2017-03-20

HPE Enterprise Services was spun off and merged with CSC, creating DXC

HPE

0.086

share of DXC (via temporary "Everett SpinCo")

DXC

Details

Delaware

DXC

75.10% SpinCo allocation 24.90%

yes

2017-09-01

HPE Software was spun off and merged with Micro Focus (UK)

HPE

0.137

share of a Micro Focus American Depositary Share (ADS) (via temporary "Seattle SpinCo") Potential 2017 US tax liability

MFGP (US)

Details

US ADSs:
New York

Micro Focus

77.92% (22.08%)
Basis reset to  $29.34 per share  for US shareholders Note 7

partly
(see Note 1)

2018-05-25

DXC US Public Sector was spun off and merged with two other companies, creating Perspecta

DXC

0.5

share of Perspecta (via temporary "Ultra SpinCo")

PRSP

Details

Delaware

(n/a)

87.06% 12.94%

no

2019-04-30

Micro Focus "Return of Value"

MFGP

0.8296

"B" Share of MFGP in exchange, plus $4.30 cash payment.

MFGP (US)

Details
and tax issues

US ADSs:
New York

Micro Focus

  (n/a)

no
(see Note 1)

2021-05-06

Perspecta bought for cash by Peraton. PRSP stock was retired. Either $29.35 per PRSP share was paid into your brokerage cash account or a check was mailed by approx. 6/2/21.

PRSP

$29.35

cash from Peraton in exchange.

PRSP (Note 5)

Details

Delaware (n/a) (n/a) (n/a)

no
(see Note 1)

2023-01-31

Micro Focus was bought for cash by OpenText at almost double the market price. MFGP stock was retired. Either $6.43 per MFGP "B" share was paid into your brokerage cash account or a check was mailed by Feb 14 2023.

MFGP

532 UK pence

cash  from OpenText in exchange.

n/a

Details

US ADSs:
New York

Micro Focus

(n/a)  (n/a)

 

no
(see Note 1)

2023-06-30

Settlement of Micro Focus shareholder class action lawsuit. If you received Micro Focus shares between Sep 1, 2017 and Aug 28, 2019 - as part of the Sep 1, 2017 HPE Software spinoff or otherwise.

MFGP

$0.39
(est.)

cash

n/a

Details

 

 

(n/a)  (n/a)

 

no
(see Note 1)


Note 1. Variations in tax accounting. Members have observed that transfer agents, plan administrators, and brokerages vary in how (or if) they track cost basis through the many HP/HPE-related stock events -- and how (or if) they report transactions to the IRS. Admin and Broker Issues

Some members have been able to upload their lot-by-lot cost basis data into their broker's system. The IRS says: "Use Form 8949 to reconcile amounts that were reported to you and the IRS... with the amounts you report on your return." The cost basis calculations in the HPAA spreadsheets are based on the recommendations provided by each company to their shareholders.

Note 2. Market price charts. Published charts, such as on Yahoo Finance, do not always accurately reflect stock splits and other events.

Note 3. HP state of incorporation. The Hewlett-Packard Company was originally incorporated in California in 1947. In 1998, it was reincorporated in Delaware. CA Secretary of State filing

Note 4. EDS state of incorporation. Electronic Data Systems was originally incorporated in Texas. In 1984, it was reincorporated in Delaware. (For unclaimed property related to the 1984-1996 ownership of EDS by General Motors, check Michigan.)

Note 5. Stock of acquired company was "retired" -- i.e. no longer traded. See Where's my stock?

Note 6. At the time of each spinoff or merger, the old company's outside tax counsel provides an opinion on the tax consequences of the transaction for shareholders, including a suggested formula to allocate cost basis between the old stock and the new stock -- with a boldface footnote "THIS INFORMATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE TAX ADVICE." Transfer agents, plan administrators, and brokers may have interpreted the transaction differently. For each transaction, we have a copy of that document. See the menu of HPAA stock pages for each company: Stock

Note 7. Whether this was one of HPE's original intentions or not, HPE's outside tax counsel advised that the transfer of HPE's software business to the UK-based Micro Focus would be penalized by the US Government as a "corporate inversion" -- a process by which companies move their legal home overseas to reduce their US tax bill. Micro Focus (MFGP) stock and tax issues: Micro Focus Stock

Note 8. Compaq shareholders see hpalumni.org/StockCompaq

Stock of acquired company was "retired" -- i.e. no longer traded. See Where's my stock?

Dates: There are four dates associated with any stock event. The Announcement Date. The Record Date, used in this table and specified in the announcement, is 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.

Splits: HP website    HPAA Copy

Institutions -- mutual funds, asset managers, brokers, pension plans,  etc. -- own or administer some 80% of HP and HPE stock

Next step:  Where is my stock?


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