Splits

Reverse stock splits
When a company's stock is trading so low that investors will not touch it, the board of directors may opt to execute a reverse stock split in an attempt to pump up the stock's market price and attract the attention of investors.

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Splits: Splits occur when a company issues more shares to its stockholders (such as two shares for one), or in the case of a reverse split, issues fewer shares (such as one share for two).

Stock Splits
The exchange of existing shares of stock for more newly issued shares from the same corporation. Since the number of shares outstanding increase, the price per share goes down.

Stock Splits
When a stock price gets very high, companies may decide to split the stock to bring its price down.

Â- Stock splits. Stock split in theory, should not have an impact to the stock price. However, it is generally observed that the stock price increases (after taking into account the increase in the number of share) after a stock split.

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Splits can come in odd proportions: 3 for 2, 5 for 4, 1,000 for 1, and so forth depending on the scenario.

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Reverse splits may be used by corporations whose shares are selling at very low market prices. They believe that if the security's price is raised, it will attract more investors.
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Reverse splits are generally used to ensure that a stock will continue to meet listing requirements on the market where it is traded or to encourage purchases by institutional investors, who may not buy stocks priced below a specific point.

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Determined by dividing current stock price by common stockholder equity per share (book value), adjusted for stock splits. Also called Market-to-Book.

Account actions such as any stock splits that have occurred since the initial purchase must be accounted for.

Back to top Asset Allocation Fund A mutual fund that splits its investment assets among stocks, bonds and other investment vehicles in an attempt to provide a consistent return for the investor.

Divisor Denominator in price-weighted indexes to adjust for security changes such as stock splits.

The financial world splits up its calendar into four quarters, each three months long. If January to March is the first quarter, April to June is the second quarter, and so on, though a company's first quarter does not have to begin in January.

Given stock splits, mergers, etc., the calculation became much more complicated; thus the need for a Dow Divisor to enable meaningful comparisons over time. The Dow Divisor in October 2005 was about 0.125.

Split Withholding: When the credit card processing company automatically splits the credit card sales between the business and the finance company per the agreed portion (generally 10% to 22%).

method of random sampling that splits a list of names into two equal groups on an every-other-name basis. One group can then be used as a control group and the other as a test panel .

Determined by dividing the current stock price by current earnings per share (adjusted for stock splits) for one year. If a stock is trading at $20 per share and is earning $2 per share, its P/E ratio is 10.

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High price The highest (intraday) price of a stock over the past 52 weeks, adjusted for any stock splits. High-yield bond See:junk bond. Highly leveraged transaction (HLT) Bank loan to a highly leveraged firm.

In this case, 1000 shares splits to 2000 but the opening price and current price are cut in half.

Stock splits are generally associated with shares having a high face value and which correspondingly trade at a higher price.

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Reverse splits or a reverse stock split are seldom associated with good fortune.

SPLIT-FUNDED ANNUITY:  A contract by which the annuity owner 'splits' their initial premium into two contracts.

Announcements of stock splits, or anticipated stock splits, often generate a great deal of interest in a stock, ...

Stock splits generally are on a two-for-one basis (two shares of new stock are made exchangeable for one share of old).

If you're an investor and your stock splits, the number of shares increases but you receive additional shares, so the value of your investment remains constant.

For instance, if a stock valued at $100 splits 2-for-1, an investor who owns 100 shares would now own 200 shares valued at $50. Splits usually must be voted on by directors and approved by shareholders.

Notes:
Treasury securities, splits, and new issues are all traded on a when-issued basis. The term is actually short for "when, as, and if issued."
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Definition: One company splits up to form two new firms. These new firms are frequently companies which used to be separate prior to the initial merger.
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An international equity placement that splits the offering is split into two branches - domestic and foreign - and each grantee is handled by a separate lead manager.
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stock price by current earnings per share (adjusted for stock splits). earnings per share for the P/E ratio is
determined by dividing earnings for past 12 months by the number of common shares outstanding. Higher ...

Determined by dividing current price by current earnings per share (adjusted for stock splits). Earnings per share for the P/E ratio is determined by dividing earnings for past 12 months by the number of common shares outstanding.

Demerger - Where a business splits into two separate organizations.
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Adjusted exercise price is the price at which an option can be bought or sold, taking into consideration any underlying stock splits.

Determined by dividing net income for the past 12 months by common stockholder equity (adjusted for stock splits). Result is shown as a percentage. Investors use ROE as a measure of how a company is using its money.

Securities dealers trade offerings of new securities, stock splits, and government securities, among others, in the period before the effective listing date. Although the U.S.

Their accumulated values (reflecting price changes, coupon payments, dividends, stock splits, etc.) at the end of the horizon are random. As random quantities, we may assign them expected returns and volatilities.

The original value of an asset for tax purposes (usually the purchase price), adjusted for stock splits, dividends and return of capital distributions.

Dual Syndicate Equity Offering definition :
An international equity placement that splits the offering into two branches - domestic and foreign - and each grantee is handled by a separate lead manager.
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Stocks ammounting to less than one full share, usually resulting from splits, acquisitions, exchanges, or dividend reinvestment programs.
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An international equity placement that splits the offering into two parts - domestic and foreign - and a separate lead manager handles each.
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The prices of the 30 stocks are totaled and then divided by a divisor which is intended to compensate for past stock splits and stock dividends and which is changed from time to time.

Occurrences such as earnings surprises or stock splits that seem to present opportunity to generate abnormal returns for those trading on the news.
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Footnote S To be used on the ex-date for stock splits or stock dividends
Footnote T To be used if the fund began reporting prices to NASDAQ during the current year.
Footnote X To be used by mutual funds on any day a fund goes ex-dividend.

Ex-Dividend
This is the date on which a buyer of shares will not benefit from the dividend. In stock splits, the ex-dividend date is the actual date the split is reflected in the share price.
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Passive management consists of administrative activities such as processing dividends, implementing share splits and ensuring the portfolio always corresponds to the reference index.
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Event anomalies
Occurrences such as earnings surprises or stock splits that seem to present opportunity to generate abnormal returns for those trading on the news.

A number used in the calculation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average that accounts for stock splits and stock dividends.

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Date a split or dividend is reflected in the price of the security (if you buy a stock on the ex-dividend date, you are not entitled to the dividend); for splits, this is the trading day after the distribution is made.
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A type of hedge fund that seeks to profit from unique events such as mergers, acquisitions, stock splits or buybacks.
Ex-Ante
A projection of expected returns - what investors expect to realize as a return.

A similar computation is necessary if stock that you own splits. Basically, to compute the new basis of your shares, you take your existing basis in the investment, and divide it among the shares you now own as a result of the distribution or split.

8-K: A notice filed by publicly-traded companies notifying investors of significant events, such as mergers, acquisition, names changes, bankruptcy, splits, etc.
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See also: Stock split, Banks, Values, Expense, Stockholder Equity