Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

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 ...

"Stock split" is a financial term that sounds complicated, but in reality understanding this concept is quite easy. The first component of a stock split that investors need to understand is the ...

A stock split is a financial engineering exercise during which a company proportionally increases the number of its outstanding shares while reducing its stock price by the same ratio. For example, in ...