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For questions related to the various forms of stock splits, reverse stock splits (share consolidations), etc.
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How to get in on the apple stock split if I only have $450 to invest?
If you only have $450 to invest, you can't purchase a full lot of 100 shares even after the split, so you're going to find a broker that will trade "odd lots". If that's the case then it doesn't matte …
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Why don't companies, whose share price plunged, reverse stock split to boost it?
Why don't they reverse stock split to uplift their share prices?
Stock splits (and reverse-splits) are a zero-sum activity (minus what costs there are to actually implement the split). It's like tra …
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Why doesn’t the stock price fall after the record date for a company splitting stock?
That's not how splits (or dividends) work. If you own one share of stock worth $100 and it does a 4-1 split, you will (eventually) have 4 shares worth $25 each. Anyone who buys stock before the split …
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Stock Splits -- What are surplus and capital accounts?
It's just how the dividend is accounted for on the company's financial statements. As a company earns profits, it increases an account on the Balance Sheet called "Retained Earnings" (sometimes called …
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Confused about a reverse stock split
A few possibilities -
The stock price has gone down another 90% after the 10:1 reverse split, and your actual total value did in fact go down to $60
Your broker (or wherever you view your holdings) h …
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Does a stock holder profit from a reverse-stock split?
If I held stock in these companies yesterday, would I have profited by these gains?
No. For DZSI, your 5 shares at $1.10 would now be 1 share at $5.50, so you would have the same total amount. …
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What happens to options held during a reverse stock split?
Bob gave the technical details, but for the practical result for you, you now have options on a "synthetic" underlier that has a strike price 8X lower than the new USO quote (equivalent to the "old" p …
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Do knock-out call options become worthless when the underlying stock is split?
No, the option terms should be adjusted to account for the split. The new knockout price should be $45, the strike price should be halved, and the number of contracts would double.
That said, since k …
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Why do stock exchanges have minimum share price requirements?
One possible reason is to allow reasonable granularity of price movements. With a price of 20 cents, a one cent change in price would be a 5% change, so requiring higher prices would allow for more gr …
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