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Microsoft initiated 2-for-1 stock splits in 1987 and 1990. It followed with two 3-for-2 stock splits in the early 1990s and five 2-for-1 splits between 1994 and 2003.
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 ...
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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.
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.
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.