New features: Corporate actions, dividend enhancements, and watchlist layouts

When a company splits its stock, changes its ticker, or gets acquired, your portfolio tracker shouldn't leave you to fix the numbers by hand. This update adds corporate action support with automatic cost basis adjustments, franking credits and withholding tax fields for dividends, new watchlist layouts for comparing stocks at a glance, and a sold holdings toggle for reviewing closed positions.

Corporate actions

TrackMyShares now handles five types of corporate actions on transaction-based portfolios. Each one automatically recalculates your cost basis and preserves holding periods for accurate tax reporting.

Bonus issues

When a company issues bonus shares, your share count increases but the total cost basis stays the same. The cost per share is recalculated across the larger number of shares. No tax event is triggered.

For example, a 1-for-2 bonus issue on 100 shares at $10 each gives you 150 shares at $6.67 each. Your total cost basis remains $1,000.

Delistings

When a stock is delisted, TrackMyShares marks the shares as worthless and realizes a capital loss equal to the remaining cost basis. Each lot is classified as short-term or long-term based on its original purchase date.

Symbol changes

When a company changes its ticker (like FB becoming META), all transactions are moved to the new symbol automatically. No tax event occurs, and your full transaction history is preserved under the new ticker.

Mergers

Mergers come in three forms, and TrackMyShares handles all of them:

• Stock-for-stock: your shares convert to the acquiring company's shares, and the full cost basis transfers over
• Cash acquisition: treated as a sale, with capital gains or losses realized based on the cash received versus your cost basis
• Mixed (stock and cash): the cash portion reduces your cost basis, and the remainder transfers to the new shares. Original purchase dates are preserved for holding period calculations

Spinoffs

When a parent company distributes subsidiary shares, you enter the conversion ratio and the cost basis allocation percentage. TrackMyShares splits your cost basis between the parent and the new spinoff accordingly. Both positions retain the original purchase date.

Recording corporate actions

Open your portfolio, click "Actions", then "Add transaction" and select the corporate action type. The form adapts to the specific action, showing only the fields that apply. Corporate actions are also detected automatically during CSV import.

For a full walkthrough of each type, see the corporate actions guide.

Return of capital

Dividend transactions now support a return of capital distribution type. Unlike ordinary dividends, return of capital is not taxable income. Instead, it reduces your cost basis in the holding.

This matters at tax time: return of capital distributions won't inflate your dividend income in tax reports. They correctly reduce cost basis, which in turn affects your capital gain or loss when you eventually sell.

Return of capital entries are auto-detected during CSV import when the transaction type includes "capital return" or "return of capital".

For more details, see the recording transactions guide.

Franking credits and withholding tax

Two new fields are now available when recording dividend transactions.

Franking credits

For Australian dividends, you can record the franking credits (imputation credits) attached to each distribution. These represent company tax already paid, and they affect your tax return in two ways:

• Gross-up: franking credits are added to your dividend income to calculate the assessable amount
• Tax offset: the same credits are then claimed as a tax offset, reducing your tax payable

Enter the dollar amount from your broker statement. Tax reports show the franking credit gross-up, assessable dividend income, and total franking tax offset per holding.

Withholding tax

For foreign dividends, you can record the withholding tax deducted by the foreign government. This appears in your tax report as a foreign income tax offset.

Both fields are available in the add transaction dialog and during CSV import. The franking credits field appears automatically for Australian stocks when recording a dividend. The withholding tax field appears for dividends from any market.

For a detailed explanation, see the franking credits explained guide.

Watchlist layouts

The watchlist page now offers three layout modes. Switch between them using the layout buttons in the toolbar.

Standard

The default view: a sidebar listing your watched stocks, with a price chart for the selected stock. Good for focused analysis of individual stocks.

Grid

All your watched stocks displayed as chart cards in a grid. A shared time range picker (1W, 1M, 3M, 6M, 1Y) controls every chart at once, making it easy to spot which stocks are moving together and which are diverging.

Table

A detailed comparison view with sortable columns. See stock quotes, 5-year historical returns with annual return bars, dividend data (yield, next payment, frequency), and sector information side by side. Useful when you want to compare fundamentals across your watchlist.

Your layout choice is saved automatically and persists between sessions.

Sold holdings toggle

PRO users on transaction-based portfolios can now show sold holdings (closed positions) in the holdings table. Toggle it on below the table total to see every position you've held, including those with zero remaining shares.

Sold holdings appear with reduced opacity and a "Sold" badge. Click one to open its transaction history and review the full buy/sell timeline.

This is useful for verifying past trades, reviewing tax-relevant disposals, and keeping a complete audit trail of your portfolio activity.