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 ...

While stock splits are not as common as they were a couple of decades ago, a number of notable ones have happened in the past couple of years, including recent ones by Netflix and ServiceNow. Upcoming ...

"Stock split" is a financial term that sounds complicated, but in reality understanding this concept is quite easy. The first component of a stock split that investors need to understand is the ...

Sometimes companies choose to split their stock in order to make their shares more accessible. Stock splits do not change the market value of a company. Microsoft has not completed a stock split in ...

A stock split divides each share of a company's stock into multiple shares. A stock split increases the total number of ...

Companies can initiate forward stock splits or reverse stock splits, which, as mentioned, alter a company's stock price and outstanding share count, either increasing or decreasing them. For example, ...