Stock-Split Watch: Is Oracle Next? | The Motley Fool

Stock splits have gained in popularity in recent years as the pace of the market’s growth has risen, with many companies going this route in order to get per-share prices back to levels retail investors are comfortable with. Such a move doesn’t alter a company’s fundamentals. It simply reduces the price of each share while increasing the number of outstanding shares proportionally.

Even though a forward stock split is simply a cosmetic move,…