Now gift stocks and ETFs to your friends and loved ones

There are different ways to account for this. For P&L purposes, we consider at X+Y the stock was sold, and X+Y is the acquisition price for the person who received the gift.

The other way to do it is that the person receiving the gift says that the acquisition price is X and whenever the stock is sold pays taxes on selling price - X. When you gift within your immediate family, the gift is non-taxable event.