1.   HP got a boost last week when the Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big investors on corporate proxy issues, endorsed the deal.

2.   Information for the survey was taken from corporate proxy reports.

3.   ISS studies corporate proxy issues and then makes recommendations to its clients on how to vote.

4.   Neither of these numbers appears in corporate proxy statements, which use one of two other methods for valuing options.

5.   Similar questions are winning broad support in corporate proxies all over the country.