Coke's stock price just crossed an important level that coincided with its last stock split 14 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

Several prominent companies announced stock splits this year, including Nvidia (NVDA), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Broadcom (AVGO), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). But what is a stock split? In this blog ...

A stock split happens when a company's board of directors divides its stock in order to increase total number of shares outstanding. When this happens, a single share reduces in market value as it now ...

A reverse stock split is an action taken by a publicly traded company that reduces the number of existing shares of stock, thereby increasing the price per share. A company may decide to do a reverse ...

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 ...