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 ...

Generally, stock splits mean that good things are happening for the company and investors are happy. Enterprise software company ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) fits that description. The stock has appreciated ...

Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) split its shares this month and now they are trading at one-tenth of what they were before the split. For investors, that means a lower share price, and perhaps the ...

Rising stock prices in the past year and a half have made it easy for many companies to justify deploying stock splits. While stock splits don't really change anything for investors, they can often ...

Many investors might rightly wonder why companies announce splitting their stocks. After all, having more or less shares doesn’t change the overall picture for a company. From a mathematical ...

There is no science to predicting which companies will resort to a stock split and when, but observers can use some clues to make educated guesses. Stock splits help make a company's shares look more ...

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 ...

But what if you want more slices? Not more pizza, just more slices? Easy to solve. Just run your pizza slicer down the middle of each existing slice, and voilà: eight slices instead of four. This same ...

At the surface level, stock splits lower a company's share price by proportionately increasing the number of shares. Suppose you have 10 shares of a company trading at $100 per share. You would have ...