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JUNE 26, 2024

5, 1919, Coca-Cola debuted as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange at an initial public offering (IPO) price of $40 per share. Beverage colossus Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is a perfect example. Image source: Getty Images. Unraveling Coca-Cola's stock-split history On Sept.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

History says Nvidia could continue soaring in the second half of 2024 Nvidia became a public company in 1999. The chart below shows its share-price appreciation (or depreciation) in the first and second halves of each full year since its initial public offering (IPO). Read on to learn more.

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JULY 10, 2024

Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split is aimed at increasing a company's share price, often with the goal of meeting continued listing standards on a major stock exchange. Although some reverse-stock splits can be long-term winners, most investors tend to focus their attention on public companies conducting forward splits.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Walmart joins the select group of less than a dozen high-profile companies to have conducted a forward-stock split since the midpoint of 2021. It won't, however, be the last widely owned or high-flying public company to declare a split. To start with, the company's social media real estate is unrivaled.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Investors have gravitated to stock-split stocks A " stock split " is an event that allows a publicly traded company to cosmetically alter its share price and outstanding share count by the same factor. I say "cosmetically," because stock splits have no effect on a company's underlying market cap or its operations.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In September, shares of gym chain Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) dropped to multiyear lows after the company suddenly removed Chris Rondeau from his position as CEO. 2013, leading the company through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. Rondeau had been at the helm since Jan.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

A report issued by JPMorgan Chase 's wealth management division in 2013 found that publicly traded companies initiating and growing their payouts between 1972 and 2012 delivered an annualized return of 9.5%. annualized return for the public companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same 40-year stretch.

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