Split stock

(1) Purchases or sales shared with others. (2) Division of the outstanding shares of a corporation into a large number of shares. Ordinarily, splits must be proposed by directors and approved by shareholders.

Split Stock

1. A stock one owns with at least one other person. See also: Joint property.

2. See: Stock split.

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M2 EQUITYBITES-December 2, 2015-NeuroMetrix to reverse split stock on-for-four effective 1 December

NeuroMetrix to reverse split stock on-for-four effective 1 December

Acraglas is often used to repair a splitting or even a completely split stock and works great for this chore as well.

The gunsmith as furniture repairman: gunsmiths are machinists and metalworkers also working with firearms, sort of like furniture composed of metal and wood

EXPLAINING STOCK SPLIT Stock split involves division of equity shares by lowering their face value.

In Smaller Parts

A momentum can be seen in the split stock after the announcement, but it is generally short-lived.

In smaller parts

Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairman of State Bank of India, said: 'The decision to split stock will enhance broader investor participation specifically retail participation and increase in demand will enhance P/E Ratio.

SBI announces stock split

To split stock at such a high ratio as 100-for-one as Livedoor did, was beyond the expectations of the financial authorities.

Japanese editorial excerpts

A common way to accomplish this is to split stock, usually offering two shares in the company's new stock for one share of its old stock; the price of shares then halves.

PUBLISHERS MAKE STOCK MOVES

Hence, Groman and Bashford may be read narrowly as involving a recharacterization of a portion of the split stock consideration as taxable boot.

Proposed section 368 regulations (remote continuity-of-interest doctrine). (Tax Executive Institute's comments submitted to IRS on April 30, 1997)

A stock split boosts the number of outstanding shares of a company, while lowering the per-share market price of the split stock without any change in the aggregate market value at the time of a split.

OSE to delay introduction of 'hybrid' stock deal system

The purpose (of splits), apparently, is to bring the market price of the split stock down to the desired range--in the nineteen forties and fifties, $15 to $40 a share.