Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

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

A stock split is when a company decides to increase the number of shares by dividing its existing shares into additional shares. Stock splits don't provide any economic value to the company. They just ...

The split for Microsoft could come at a lower price than comparable stocks. Admittedly, it might be presumptuous to say that Microsoft is the next stock split. Many stocks are soaring to very high ...

Walmart (WMT) investors are gearing up for a stock split. For the 12th time in 50 years, Walmart will conduct a stock split in an effort to make shares more affordable for its employees. Walmart last ...

Sometimes companies choose to split their stock in order to make their shares more accessible. Stock splits do not change the market value of a company. Microsoft has not completed a stock split in ...

As a former claims handler and fraud investigator, Jason Metz has worked on a multitude of complex and multifaceted claims. The insurance industry can be seemingly opaque, and Jason enjoys breaking ...

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 ...