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 ...

Sometimes, companies want to make their stock more affordable, attractive or accessible to investors without lowering the collective value of their shares. They achieve this through stock splits — or, ...

Being able to do the splits is a remarkable feat. If you're not quite bendy enough to strike the pose (it me), you might think the splits are reserved for a select few elite. Don't count yourself out ...

In the summer of 2020, a number of big-name companies began announcing stock splits. (Yes, I’m talking about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)). Despite the current bear market, a number of ...

Few things stoke more investor interest than a stock split. While they don't alter any of a stock's fundamentals like revenue, net income, or free cash flow, splits can create buzz around a stock, ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJIA for short, is America’s oldest stock index and one of the most popular bellwether indicators followed by market analysts and investors. Comprising just 30 ...

When a company splits its stock, the company's overall value doesn't change -- it's just divided differently. Even though stock splits don't change a company's underlying fundamentals, they can shift ...

The free market dictates the price of every publicly traded company’s stock. All share prices exist at the intersection of what the seller is willing to accept and what the buyer is willing to pay.

Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Tesla are tech powerhouses involved in the artificial intelligence (AI) boom -- and are members of the Magnificent Seven stocks that have driven S&P 500 performance in ...