{"id":4021,"date":"2023-03-11T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/split-shares\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:23:21","slug":"split-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/split-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSplit happens when a stock\u2019s face value is reduced by a certain proportion. Stock split is a corporate action when the company increases the number of its shares as a result of bringing down the face value of its shares. The price of shares comes down as a result of \u2018stock split\u2019. The number of shares increases, but the total value of an investor&#8217;s investment remains the same. Split shares increase liquidity and are more \u2018affordable\u2019 for investors who generally stay away from higher priced shares.<\/p>\n<h2>What are the benefits of Split Shares to shareholders?<\/h2>\n<p>Some advantages of Split Shares to shareholders are:<br \/>\na) Increased liquidity &#8211; Split shares are more accessible to retail investors which results in greater demand, increased trading and thus increased liquidity.<br \/>\nb) Increased accessibility &#8211; for new investors, split shares present an opportunity to participate in the growth of such companies<\/p>\n<h2>What are the benefits of Split Shares to companies?<\/h2>\n<p>Some advantages of Split Shares to companies are:<br \/>\n              1. Greater participation by retail investors<br \/>\n              2. Increased affordability also signifies more trading volumes<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Split happens when a stock\u2019s face value is reduced by a certain proportion. Stock split is a corporate action when the company increases the number of its shares as a result of bringing down the face value of its shares. The price of shares comes down as a result of \u2018stock split\u2019. The number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}