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A stock split or stock divide increases the number of shares in a public company. The price is adjusted such that the before and after market capitalization of the company remains the same and dilution does not occur. Options and warrants are included.
Usage examples of "stock split".
Only yesterday Golden Ferry had soared a dollar because all the business world knew their annual meeting was next week, it had been a good year and it was rumored there was going to be a stock split.
It took all his strength, but suddenly the wooden stock split away from the barrel pins and, when the trigger assembly had been wrenched loose, Sharpe was holding the gun in two useless halves which, still without a word, he dropped into Rossendale's lap.
I'd have to build a shelter for my saddle, stock split logs, maybe, or poles, depending on what was to hand.
In lieu of cash, they offered me stock in the lightbulb company, stock that could mature, with a stock split or two they said, into $10, $12 million -- could be worth that within two years, they said, so good were these new lightbulbs.
Don't be surprised if you get a stock split one of these days soon and double your eight hundred dollars.