This paper reviews various studies of forward and reverse stock splits in the areas of motives for splits, split practices, split effects on firm value, and changes in market activities around splits. It focuses on three hypotheses and their extended evidence. As our analysis shows, the optimal...

We show that three proxies for stock price informativeness, adjusted probability of information based trading (AdjPIN), price non-synchronicity and probability of information-based trading (PIN), decrease significantly due to an enlarged investor base after stock splits. The results are...

Using a unique proprietary account-level trading dataset in China, we investigate how active information acquisition alleviates price-based return comovement, a typical anomaly in stock splits. We find that: 1) individual trading drives the comovement and the trading correlation between split...

This paper reviews various studies of forward and reverse stock splits in the areas of motives for splits, split practices, split effects on firm value, and changes in market activities around splits. It focuses on three hypotheses and their extended evidence. As our analysis shows, the optimal...

This paper reviews various studies of forward and reverse stock splits in the areas of motives for splits, split practices, split effects on firm value, and changes in market activities around splits. It focuses on three hypotheses and their extended evidence. As our analysis shows, the optimal...

We propose a behavioral signaling framework to explain the positive announcement effects of stock splits. (Retail) investors view stock splits as good news and are loss averse. Thus, a stock split can boost investors’ expectations of the firm’s growth potential and its stock price, but may...