upcoming stock splits 2024：Stock Splits Continue Their 2024 Comeback

Stock splits are gaining in popularity in 2024 as some companies try to make their stocks look more appealing to retail investors. With the rise of retail investors out of the Covid-19 pandemic came the need to be more appealing to this more active batch of investors. Walmart (NYSE:WMT[1]) 1 and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA[2]) 2 made it clear when they split their stocks this year that the purpose was to be more accessible to a wide range of investors, including employees.

In the second quarter of 2024, announced stock splits reached 100 (out of Wall Street Horizons universe of 11,000 global equities). This is the highest level of stock splits since the second quarter of 2023, which reached 101. However, the first half of 2024 saw 168 split announcements, the highest for a first half in over 10 years.

While total stock splits are up, most of that volume is driven by reverse splits, which have been outpacing traditi...