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Stock Splits and Information: The Role of Share Price

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  • Robert M. Conroy
  • Robert S. Harris

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Managers appear to design stock splits to return the price of the company's shares to the price level achieved after the last split. Reducing the share price below the price achieved in the last split is interpreted by investors and securities analysts as a positive signal.

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  • Robert M. Conroy & Robert S. Harris, 1999. "Stock Splits and Information: The Role of Share Price," Financial Management, Financial Management Association, vol. 28(3), Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:fma:fmanag:conroy99
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    1. Shourun Guo & Mark H. Liu & Weihong Song, 2008. "Stock Splits as a Manipulation Tool: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 37(4), pages 695-712, December.
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    8. Fernando, Chitru S. & Krishnamurthy, Srinivasan & Spindt, Paul A., 2004. "Are share price levels informative? Evidence from the ownership, pricing, turnover and performance of IPO firms," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 377-403, October.
    9. Pavabutr, Pantisa & Sirodom, Kulpatra, 2010. "Stock splits in a retail dominant order driven market," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 18(5), pages 427-441, November.
    10. Bill B. Francis & Iftekhar Hasan & Mingming Zhou, 2013. "The effects of stock splits on the bid-ask spread of syndicated loans," International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(1/2), pages 159-187.
    11. Pradip Banerjee & Prithviraj S. Banerjee, 2012. "Signalling Hypothesis and Clientele Shifts: Evidence from Indian Stock Splits," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 13(2), pages 297-309, June.
    12. Li Eng & Joohyung Ha & Sandeep Nabar, 2014. "The impact of regulation FD on the information environment: evidence from the stock market response to stock split announcements," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 43(4), pages 829-853, November.
    13. Fernando, Chitru S. & Gatchev, Vladimir A. & Spindt, Paul A., 2010. "Institutional Ownership, Analyst Following and Share Prices," Working Papers 10-07, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Weiss Center.
    14. Hu, May & Chao, Chi-Chur & Malone, Chris & Young, Martin, 2017. "Real determinants of stock split announcements," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 574-598.
    15. Fernando, Chitru S. & Gatchev, Vladimir A. & Spindt, Paul A., 2012. "Institutional ownership, analyst following, and share prices," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(8), pages 2175-2189.
    16. Kee H. Chung & Sean Yang, 2015. "Reverse Stock Splits, Institutional Holdings, and Share Value," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 44(1), pages 177-216, March.
    17. Amini, Shima & Buchner, Axel & Cai, Charlie X. & Mohamed, Abdulkadir, 2020. "Why do firms manage their stock price levels?," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    18. Li, Fengyu & Liu, Mark H. & Shi, Yongdong (Eric), 2017. "Institutional ownership around stock splits," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 46(PA), pages 14-40.
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    20. Steve Johnson & Robert Stretcher, 2011. "News and noise: do investors react to stock split announcements differently during periods of high and low market volatility?," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 35(1), pages 71-78, January.
    21. Birru, Justin & Wang, Baolian, 2016. "Nominal price illusion," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 119(3), pages 578-598.
    22. Zaremba, Adam & Okoń, Szymon & Asyngier, Roman & Schroeter, Lucia, 2019. "Reverse splits in international stock markets: Reconciling the evidence on long-term returns," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 552-562.
    23. Ruzbeh J. Bodhanwala, 2015. "Stock Split: A Test of Market Efficiency on Indian Stocks (2001–2013)," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 16(5_suppl), pages 112-124, October.

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