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by dripton 2141 days ago
Meh. Total non-event. Once upon a time I hated splits because they made record-keeping more complicated, but the online brokers do a good job of tracking basis across splits now. Once upon a time there was a real reason to do splits to enable easier purchases, but the online brokers allow fractional shares now. So, just not excited either way about splits anymore.
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Matt Levine made me notice that there's still an effect of stock splits on making options more accessible i.e. there are brokers for fractional shares, but not options on fractional shares/fractional options.

I am pretty sure this is irrelevant, but it's interesting.