Stock splits occur when a company decides that their stock price has risen to a level where it is getting harder for investors to buy it in small quantities.
Rice University's David Ikenberry measured the 1 - year and 3 - year performance of all 2 - for - 1
stock splits occurring between 1975 and 1990.
Other 3 - for - 2
stock splits occurred in April 1992, May 1987, April 1984, April 1979, May 1970 and December 1967.
Two for one
stock splits occurred in November 1989, August 1993, February 1996, February 1998, and May 2006.
The stock splits occurred in September 1978, October 1980, October 1983, October 1996, and April 1999.
The stock splits occurred in November 1992, September 1995, February 1999, and February 2000.
Not exact matches
Returns are adjusted for
stock splits,
stock dividends, recapitalizations, and corporate reorganizations as they
occurred; however, no effort has been made to reflect the cost of brokerage commissions or of taxes.
The presence of these SNPs in the ancient horses implies that selection for these traits did not
occur on de novo mutations but on existing variation, which was either contributed to the domesticated
stock by the ancient population through admixture or was cosegregating in both the ancestors of the ancient horses and the ancestors of the domesticated horses after their
split.
The only truly successful investment following a reverse
stock split that has
occurred in my lifetime is Priceline, now known as Booking Holdings, Inc., which orchestrated a reverse 1:6
stock split in 2003 to stimulate the price above $ 20, and it has subsequently gone up to a price over $ 2,000 due to the immense success of priceline.com.
The first two
stock splits were 3 - for - 2 and
occurred in November 1968 and February 1971.
Prior to beginning its record of dividend growth in 1991, SEI Investments
split its
stock twice: 2 - for - 1
splits occurred in February 1983 and June 1987.
Quarterly reports contain financial statements, a discussion from the management, and a list of «material events» that have
occurred with the company (such as a
stock split or acquisition).