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Searches for new neutral Higgs bosons of an extended Higgs sector at the LHCcan be interpreted in the framework of the two-Higgs doublet model. Byemploying generic flavor-aligned Higgs-fermion Yukawa couplings, we propose ananalysis that uses experimental data to determine whether flavor alignment is aconsequence of a symmetry that is either exact or at most softly broken. Weillustrate our proposal in two different scenarios based on a few 3 sigma(local) excesses observed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations in their searchesfor heavy scalars. In Scenario 1, an excess of events is interpreted as $A\toZH\to \ell^+\ell^- b\bar{b}$ (where $\ell=e$ or $\mu$), with the CP-odd andCP-even neutral scalar masses given by $m_A=610$ GeV and $m_H=290$ GeV,respectively. In Scenario 2, an excess of events in the production of$t\bar{t}$ and $\tau^+\tau^-$ final states is interpreted as decays of a CP-oddscalar of mass $m_A=400$ GeV. Scenario 1 is consistent with Type-I Yukawainteractions, which can arise in a 2HDM subject to a softly-broken$\mathbb{Z}_2$ discrete symmetry. Scenario 2 is inconsistent with asymmetry-based flavor alignment, but can be consistent with more generalflavor-aligned Higgs-fermion Yukawa couplings.

Accommodating Hints of New Heavy Scalars in the Framework of the Flavor-Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model