How to Use stock split in a Sentence

stock split

noun
  • The company also announced a four-for-one stock split.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Led a complex 1-for-40 reverse stock split.
    — Mark Curriden, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Not securing approval could result in a reverse stock split.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • CrowdStrike also announced a four-for-one stock split effective in July.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • DuPont’s 1-for-3 reverse stock split goes into effect Wednesday morning.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • After accounting for a reverse stock split, Forbes revised that estimate to 73 million shares.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • ServiceNow completed a 5-for-1 stock split.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Shares of Adani Power skyrocketed over 15% after its five-for-one stock split took effect Monday.
    — Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The enterprise software firm also authorized a 5-for-1 stock split to make shares more accessible to retail investors.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The streaming giant announced Thursday that its board approved a 10-for-1 forward stock split of Netflix common stock.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The purpose of the stock split is to reset the market price of the company’s common stock to a range that will be more accessible to employees who participate in its stock option program.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • After the dot-com bubble burst and Microsoft’s final stock split in 2003, shares entered a long holding pattern that lasted nearly a decade.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The company last enacted a 10-for-1 stock split of its common stock in October 2022.
    — Hugh Leask,fred Imbert,justina Lee, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • The company most recently enacted a seven-for-one stock split that took effect July 14, 2015.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • McDermott also explained why ServiceNow proposed a five-for-one stock split on Wednesday during earnings.
    — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The price of a share of Netflix is about to get less expensive, with the streaming giant’s board of directors signing off on a 10-for-one stock split, the company said Thursday.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The company announced a 10-for-1 stock split Thursday, a move that could make the pricey individual shares more accessible to retail investors.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The electric vehicle maker’s stock fell more than 1% after the company said its 1-for-10 reverse stock split is expected to go into effect after the bell next Friday.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Following the spin, the remaining company, which will be called Honeywell Technologies, will undergo a 1-for-2 reverse stock split.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 26 June 2026
  • Shares of Rivian are off less than 5% this year, while Lucid’s stock is off roughly 45%, including a 1-for-10 reverse stock split in September.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Enterprise software firm ServiceNow also announced a 5-for-1 stock split authorization earlier this week.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Netflix climbed 3% after the streamer announced a 10-for-1 stock split — a largely cosmetic change that’s typically done to rev up retail trader interest.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike a traditional stock split, which increases the number of shares outstanding while lowering the share price proportionally, a reverse stock split reduces the number of shares outstanding and raises the share price proportionally.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • Netflix — Netflix jumped 3% after the streaming giant announced a 10-for-1 stock split , a move that could make individual shares of the company more accessible to the retail investor.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Court records show Patricia Sullivan-Schrenk and Alva returned to court several times over the stock split of what was then Sullivan College Systems.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Netflix said Thursday that its Board of Directors has approved a 10-for-1 forward stock split of the company’s high-flying common stock that trades at well over 1,000 a share.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The value of the entity through which Dolan owns both the Knicks and the New York Rangers has lagged far behind Forbes’ valuations of the two franchises for years, but an upcoming stock split could help attract investors.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Immediately after the spin is complete, Honeywell Technologies will undergo a 1-for-2 reverse stock split, reducing our share count from 390 to 195.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 8 June 2026
  • Shares of Rivian — following near-record gains Wednesday — are up roughly 16% in 2025, while Lucid remains off more than 40%, including a 1-for-10 reverse stock split this summer.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • His fortune reached $20 billion in 2019 and skyrocketed the following year after a Tesla stock split, making Musk the world’s fifth centibillionaire — worth more than $100 billion — by Forbes’ estimate.
    — Robert Frank,hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 12 June 2026

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