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As a result of its skyrocketing stock price, Nvidia's board of directors authorized a 10-for-1 stock split in May of this year, bringing the company's stock price down from over $1,200 to around $120.
After a dramatic bull run in recent weeks, Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) stock was finally giving up gains, as investors seemed to be taking profits after Friday's pop. Palantir stock was ...
There appears to be some pressure for a stock split for Home Depot. Few stocks have matched its track record for overall returns (total return of 421% over the past decade compared to the S&P 500 ...
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 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.
The average return after a stock split is announced in the year that follows is 25.4%. That's about a 13% greater return than the market over the same period. This chart lays it out nicely.
With the split, the two companies began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 3, 2006. Investors anticipated Viacom benefiting from the split, but instead, it dropped approximately 20 percent, while CBS Corporation rose 9 percent, that same year, Paramount Parks became a wholly-owned theme park unit of CBS Corporation.
Students protesting on campuses across US ask colleges to cut investments supporting Israel By COLLIN BINKLEY, STEVE LeBLANC and BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS Associated Press Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies ...