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A split share corporation is a corporation that exists for a defined period of time to transform the risk and investment return (capital gains, dividends, and possibly also profits from the writing of covered options) of a basket of shares of conventional dividend-paying corporations into the risk and return of the two or more classes of publicly traded shares in the split share corporation.
The stock has gained 26,920% over the past decade (as of this writing), prompting management to initiate a 10-for-1 stock split earlier this year -- after a 4-for-1 split in 2021.
The stock is up 54% year to date in 2024 and up 1,580% over the past 10 years (as of this writing). This encouraged the company to declare a 10-for-1 stock split , which it completed in July.
However, the outlook for Wall Street's stock-split stocks differs greatly as we steam toward the new year. Based on the forecasts of select Wall Street analysts, two AI stock-split stocks offer ...
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.
Dividend stripping or cum-ex trading can be used as a tax avoidance strategy, [1] enabling a company to distribute profits to its owners as a capital sum, instead of a dividend, which offers tax benefits if the effective tax rate on capital gains is lower than for dividends.
The second high-flying stock-split stock that smart investors should avoid in November, and arguably well beyond, is AI enterprise analytics software provider MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR).
The stock will trade on an ex-distribution basis (adjusted for the amount of the dividend paid) on the trading day after the dividend payment date, and thereafter. To be entitled to a special dividend of less than 25% of the share price, you need to be a stockholder on the record date.