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Image source: Getty Images. First, though, a quick word about stock splits.These operations reduce the per-share price through the issuance of more shares to current holders of a particular stock.
Image source: Getty Images. 1. Microsoft: A potential 3-for-1 stock split in 2025. Microsoft has completed nine splits since its stock came public in 1986.
It completed a 3-for-1 split in September 2022, which reduced its stock price to $180 (from $540 before the split). However, the stock has surged 112% since then to trade at $383 as of this writing.
Both companies split their stock 20-for-1 in 2022, when each traded for more than $2,000 per share. This brought them down to more reasonable levels, at a split-adjusted $100 per share.
The company has split its stock twice in the last five years: a 4-for-1 split in 2021 followed by a 10-for-1 split in June of this year, bringing its share price to a more affordable $118.
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
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There have been more than 450 forward stock splits year to date, including reverse stock splits. Additional stock splits are on the way in the next few weeks. Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX) conducted ...