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Software giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a long history of stock splits.Its share count has been reshuffled nine times so far, and a single share from 1987 would be a basket of 288 Microsoft ...
A stock split is when a company divides its stock to increase the number of shares. Suppose one share of a company's stock trades at $100. If management did a 5-to-1 split, that single share would ...
Amid the stock split talk, investors need to keep Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in mind. The current price of around $460 per share is well below the nominal prices at which stocks like Broadcom or ...
July 25, 2005: Yahoo acquires widget engine software Konfabulator that is transformed into a free software platform and renamed Yahoo! Widgets. [46] August 11, 2005: Yahoo acquires 40 percent of Alibaba.com for $1 billion, and Alibaba takes over the operation of Yahoo China. [47] August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo launch integrated DSL service ...
BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
The company's stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble and closed at an all-time high of US$118.75 in 2000; [14] however, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached an all-time low of US$8.11 in 2001. [15] Yahoo! formally rejected an acquisition bid from the Microsoft Corporation in 2008. [16]
Adjusted for subsequent splits, Microsoft’s IPO price based on today’s share count was only about 7.2 cents per share. The stock had more than quadrupled its IPO price by mid-1987.
The stock, which eventually closed at $27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. After the offering, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $519.777 million. [1] Microsoft has subsequently acquired over 225 companies, purchased stakes in 64 companies, and made 25 divestments. Of the companies that ...