Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285867977
Author: Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 15, Problem 2P
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To calculate: Stock price after the splitting 3 for 2 stocks.
Stock split: When a company has large number of outstanding shares, then the board of directors decided to issue more shares to current shareholders, which resulted in decreasing the number of outstanding shares and increasing the shares prices.
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