A 2 for 1 stock split refers to a corporate action by a stock company wherein the face value of a stock is cut in half and after the action date, there will be twice the number of shares of that company in the market.
Say for ex: XYZ limited has 1 million stocks in the market with each of face value $10, after the split there will be a total of 2 million stocks in the market of the same company each with a face value of $5.
The net worth or the market capitalization of the company would remain the same after the split. So effectively, the market price of the company would also get cut in half when the split happens.
The second Lucent stock split occurred on 04/01/1999. Lucent Technologies, a multinational telecommunications equipment company offered a 2 for 1 stock split.
This actually sounds like a "reverse stock split." In such a transaction, which is done to increase the stock price without changing the company's market cap, a company trading three million shares at $10 who did a 1:3 reverse stock split would finish the day trading 1 million shares at $30. The other way is the "stock split," which is done to get the stock price down, one share at $30 becomes three shares at $10.
Alltel had the following stock splits: 12/16/68 5 for 4 2/1/72 4 for 3 5/29/87 3 for 2 7/14/89 3 for 2 7/9/93 2 for 1
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Lucent did not have a reverse stock split. On December 1, 2006 Lucent merged with Alcatel to become Alcatel-Lucent. Lucent shareholders received .1952 Alcatel-Lucent American Depository Shares (ADSs) for each share of Lucent stock..
The second Lucent stock split occurred on 04/01/1999. Lucent Technologies, a multinational telecommunications equipment company offered a 2 for 1 stock split.
A 2 for 1 split on 4/1/1998, and another 2 for 1 split on 4/1/1999.
Jun 29, 1999 2:1
2 for 1 or half
Split adjusted, the stock of GM was 41.13 on 1/3/1989 and 42.25 on 12/29/1989. The price ranged from 39.13 - 50.50. A 3 for 2 stock split occurred on 3/29/1989. Use Yahoo Finance's 'Historical Prices' link for a particular stock to recover prices as they were on that date (not split adjusted).
Avaya stock did not split.
This actually sounds like a "reverse stock split." In such a transaction, which is done to increase the stock price without changing the company's market cap, a company trading three million shares at $10 who did a 1:3 reverse stock split would finish the day trading 1 million shares at $30. The other way is the "stock split," which is done to get the stock price down, one share at $30 becomes three shares at $10.
According to Yahoo! Finance, Walmart's stock has had nine two-for-one splits since its IPO. There was one split in 1982 and six 2:1 splits since then. The following list shows the history of WMT stock splits: 25-Aug-75 [2:1] 17-Dec-80 [2:1] 12-Jul-82 [2:1] 11-Jul-83 [2:1] 07-Oct-85 [2:1] 13-Jul-87 [2:1] 09-Jul-90 [2:1] 26-Feb-93 [2:1] 20-Apr-99 [2:1]
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$7501.28 2 shares bought in 1983 have split 2:1 3 times since then, so now you have 16 shares. At today's closing price of 468.83, times 16, equals 7501.28. When a stock splits 2:1 your number of shares double. a 3:1 split triples your number of shares, and so on.
Stock split means to increase the existing number of shares to more shares for example if a person has 10 shares and company announce stock split for 2 for 1 it means the person who has 10 shares will have now 20 shares of the same price. it doesnot change the total value of shares investment but change the value per share.
A 1 for 100 reverse stock split means that you will receive 1 new share for your currently held 100 shares. Example: You hold 100,000 shares of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) after the 1 for 100 stock split you will hold 1,000 new shares of MSFT