Although anything having to do with artificial intelligence (AI) has been garnering Wall Street's attention for more than a year, a strong case can be made that the trend investors can't get enough of right now is companies enacting stock splits.

A stock split is a mechanism that allows a publicly traded company to cosmetically alter its share price and outstanding share count by the same factor. It's superficial in the sense that stock splits won't change a company's market cap or in any way impact its operating performance.

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