Guides
Stock gifting, explained
Straight answers to the questions people actually ask before giving stock — including the ones where the honest answer is that you want a different product than ours.
How to gift stock
The four realistic ways to give stock in the US — a brokerage transfer, a custodial account, a fractional-share service, or a market-linked gift — and what each asks of the recipient.
Can you gift stock without a brokerage account?
Yes, but the answer differs for the sender and the recipient, and most guides only answer one of them. What is genuinely possible without an account on either side.
Is a stock gift taxable?
Who actually pays, what the 2026 annual exclusion covers, when Form 709 comes into it, and how a transferred share differs from a market-linked gift. Not tax advice.
Looking for something shorter? The FAQ covers how Beestow itself works, and How It Works walks through sending a gift step by step.