Although Wall Street can be unpredictable, one certainty among investors is that they'll seek out the positive in virtually any situation.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S 500, and Nasdaq Composite falling into a bear market in 2022, investors have eagerly looked for the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. For many, companies enacted stock splits have been that ray of sunshine.

A stock split is an event that allows a publicly traded company to alter its share price and outstanding share count without impacting its market cap or ongoing operations. It's a cosmetic change that either makes a company's share price more nominally affordable for investors without access to fractional-share purchases (i.e., a forward stock split) or increases a company's share price to ensure it remains listed on a major exchange (reverse stock split).

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