Two industry-leading businesses are ideally positioned to announce and complete their respective first-ever splits.

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A stock split is when a company decides to increase the number of shares by dividing its existing shares into additional shares. Stock splits don't provide any economic value to the company. They just ...

The split for Microsoft could come at a lower price than comparable stocks. Admittedly, it might be presumptuous to say that Microsoft is the next stock split. Many stocks are soaring to very high ...

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A stock split divides each share of a company's stock into multiple shares. A stock split increases the total number of shares each investor owns by a specified multiple, but it does not change each ...