What Is A Stock Split and What Causes It?

How they work, examples and (rumoured) upcoming company stock splits...

👋🏼 everyone,

I hope you're all having a good week so far.

There’s a lot of speculation at the minute that the AI giant Nvidia is planning to undertake a stock split, because the price per share is currently (at time of writing) a hefty $843 USD.

Now if you’re scratching your head about what a stock split is, why companies want to do them and most importantly why it matters to you, then please read on.

Today I’ll cover:

• What is a stock split? 🧐

• Why do stock splits happen and what it might mean for you? 🤑

• A case study (using Apple) of a successful stock split

• How to watch out for stock splits 👀

• Stock split - 📹 explainer

• What’s a reverse stock split? And why do investors hate them?

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