Stock splits are no longer as routine as they were a couple of decades ago, but a string of high-profile ones has put the subject back in the spotlight. In 2025, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) executed a ...

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 ...

After splitting its shares in March 2022, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) saw a 5% jump the following day. The timing of Amazon’s split wasn’t ideal as technology stocks plummeted throughout the spring and ...

Earlier this year, several prominent companies announced stock splits this year, including Nvidia (NVDA), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Broadcom (AVGO), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). Cloud company Arista ...

Dispersion is the word of the year. Thirty-six trading days into 2026, and there are 52-week highs and 52-week lows across the global equity spectrum. Sectors like Information Technology (specifically ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

Stock splits are back in fashion, but a small club of high-priced names has refused to play along for decades, even as peers embrace splits to court retail investors. AutoZone (AZO) and Goldman Sachs ...

A standard stock split will increase the number of shares you own -- while decreasing the value of each share, proportionately. That last bit in italics is important, because it explains why stock ...

Splits aren't an explicit buy signal. PEGA and IBKR are two recent examples of splits. Splits help knock down barriers of entry. We’ve seen many notable splits in recent years, with companies aiming ...