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Public companies are always happy when their stock prices rise. But sometimes a company is so successful that its stock price rises too high. For that reason, it may implement a stock split. A stock ...

A stock split divides each share of a company's stock into multiple shares. A stock split increases the total number of shares each investor owns by a specified multiple, but it does not change each ...

A stock split consists of an action taken by a company to divide its existing shares into multiple shares. The decision to split a stock is usually made by a company’s board of directors. Stock splits ...

A stock split happens when a company's board of directors divides its stock in order to increase total number of shares outstanding. When this happens, a single share reduces in market value as it now ...