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Why a stock split makes shares look cheaper

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Cutting a single chart into eight slices instead of four does not give you more chart, but try telling that to the financial sector. Corporations perform stock splits to simply divide their existing equity into smaller mathematical fractions, making the share price appear incredibly cheap without changing the underlying corporate valuation at all.

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