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Lucent became a "darling" stock of the investment community in the late 1990s, and its split-adjusted spinoff price of $7.56/share rose to a high of $84. Its market capitalization reached a high of $258 billion, and it was at the time the most widely held company with 5.3 million shareholders.
Partnering with AT&T as a technology provider, McCaw introduced their "Cellular One" service in 1990, the first truly national cellular system. AT&T purchased 33% of the company in 1992 and arranged a merger in 1994 that made Craig McCaw one of AT&T's largest shareholders. In 2002, the company was spun off from AT&T to become AT&T Wireless ...
AT&T announced in 1995 that it would split into three companies: a manufacturing/R&D company, a computer company, and a services company. NCR, Bell Labs and AT&T Technologies were to be spun off by 1997. In preparation for its spin-off, AT&T Technologies was renamed Lucent Technologies. Lucent was completely spun off from AT&T in 1996.
A stock split is when a company decides to exchange its stock for more (and sometimes fewer) shares of its own stock, with the price per share adjusting so that there is no change in the overall ...
Here's what history tells us about stock splits. Since Nvidia's split, its stock is up about 10%. Since Walmart's, the stock is up about 34%. Chipotle hasn't fared so well; its stock is down 10% ...
The new AT&T Inc. lacks the vertical integration that characterized the historic AT&T Corporation and led to the Department of Justice antitrust suit. [23] AT&T Inc. announced it would not switch back to the Bell logo, [24] thus ending corporate use of the Bell logo by the Baby Bells, with the lone exception of Verizon.
Even with a stagnant dividend, AT&T stock currently yields about 4.9%. That's historically on the low side for AT&T, so a dividend hike could be on the table in 2025.
On May 17, 2021 AT&T announced that it was spinning off its content subsidiary WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery, Inc. to form a new company, Warner Bros. Discovery, subject to regulatory approval. The deal, which closed in April 2022, was structured as a Reverse Morris Trust; at the time the deal was completed, AT&T's shareholders held ...