With the exception of artificial intelligence (AI), there's not a hotter trend on Wall Street right now than companies conducting stock splits.

A stock split is an event where a publicly traded company cosmetically alters its share price and outstanding share count by the same magnitude. It's "cosmetic" in the sense that changing a company's share price and share count by the same factor has no effect on its market cap or operating performance.

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