Companies tend to use stock splits for a few different reasons. Traditional stock splits artificially lower a company's share price while increasing the amount of shares outstanding, without changing ...

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Companies can execute stock splits or reverse stock splits to artificially change their share price and outstanding share count. Traditional stock splits are often used after a company has gone on a ...