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One of the primary reasons companies split their stock is to keep the price in a more natural trading range where there's likely to be more liquidity.

An n-way stock split in theory should reduce the price by a factor of n (that is, a 2:1 split ought to halve the price) but what we're seeing now is likely just price discovery based on the bullish earnings report.



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