Over the last 30 years, investors have pretty much always had a new innovation or trend to latch onto. Next-big-thing technologies like the internet, genome decoding, 3D printing, blockchain technology, and the metaverse represent some of the examples of potentially game-changing trends for corporate America.

At the moment, investors have two buzzy trends that they're flocking to. While you're probably familiar with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), you might be unaware of just how popular stocks enacting splits have become.

A stock split is an event that allows a publicly traded company to change its outstanding share count and share price by the same magnitude without having any impact on its market cap or operating performance. Splits come in two forms: forward and reverse.

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