EDS is not a live ticker. It maps to Electronic Data Systems Corporation, a Delaware corporation that traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EDS until the company was acquired by Hewlett Packard and its securities registration ended in September 2008. The final periodic filing on the record is the annual report for the fiscal year that closed at the end of 2007, and the last quarterly report covers the June 2008 period. Nothing has been filed under this CIK in the nineteen and a half years since, so the symbol should be treated as a defunct ticker and a data quality exception in the pipeline.
The identity is clean and the delisting is unambiguous. The EDGAR browse page for the company shows a notice filed on the merger completion date that removes the securities from NYSE listing, and a separate form filed weeks later that terminates the Exchange Act registration. The current report of that date states that Hewlett Packard completed its acquisition of Electronic Data Systems and that each outstanding share was converted into the right to receive 25.00 in cash. There is no current issuer, no market price, and no reporting cycle against which a v10 report could be built.
This note documents the verification steps, the final filings, and the corporate fate of the company the symbol once named. It traces the arc of a business that scaled to become one of the largest IT services firms in the world, was bought in a cash deal, and was then folded into a successor entity that reports under a different ticker. No equity thesis, valuation framework, or trade recommendation can be constructed on a symbol whose registrant ceased to exist as a reporting company eighteen years ago. The responsible disposition is to record the delisting and close the assignment as a documented exception rather than to force the symbol through a workflow it cannot support.