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The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
A notable exception was Wal-Mart, the best performing stock on the list, with a 29.65% compounded annualized return over a 29-year period. [1] However, Wal-Mart's initial public offering was in 1970 and only started trading on the NYSE on August 25, 1972, [ 4 ] at the end of the bull market.
In March 2000, its stock reached a price $1,305 per share, but by 2002 the price had declined to $2 a share. [4] Blue Coat Systems (formerly CacheFlow): Its stock price rose over 400% on its first day of trading in November 1999. Boo.com: An online clothing retailer, it spent $188 million in just six months. It filed for bankruptcy in May 2000. [5]
The 1980s were a tough time for financial markets. Not one but two recessions in the early '80s, high rates of inflation and unemployment, and Black Monday, one of the worst stock market crashes of...
Lasting through the 1970s and early-1980s, this was the end of a boom that started in 1969, compounded by the 1970s energy crisis coupled with early 1980s Latin American debt crisis. [7] [8] [9] 1973–1974 stock market crash: Jan 1973 UK: Lasting 23 months, dramatic rise in oil prices, the miners' strike and the downfall of the Heath government.
Its last stock split was a 2-for-1 affair on Jan. 13, 2000. Costco's stock has seen a total return of 2,450% since then, leaving the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index far behind with a mere 477% ...
On this day in economic and business history ... Home Depot went public on Sept. 22, 1981, two years after its first stores opened in Atlanta.The home-improvement retailer listed 600,000 shares at ...
The Financial News Network (FNN) was an American financial and business news television network launched on November 30, 1981. The network aimed to broadcast programming nationwide, five days a week, for seven hours a day on 13 stations in an effort to expand the availability of business news for public dissemination.