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 ...

Several prominent companies announced stock splits this year, including Nvidia (NVDA), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Broadcom (AVGO), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). But what is a stock split? In this blog ...

Stock splits don't make a stock a better buy or even change your investment value, but they can make a stock more accessible to investors. Costco could justify doing a stock split given its high price ...

A stock splitting its shares is generally a positive sign that the company (and its stock) is doing well. Splits don't change the actual value of an investor's holdings in a company, they just divide ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

While they don't change the fundamentals of a stock, they do act as a signal from management that it expects the stock to keep moving higher. That's because stock splits represent milestones in a ...