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Stock Splits Disappearing

Companies reluctance to split their shares boosts average price of S&P 500.

By Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg | Updated on May 08, 2012

Stock splits, enticements to investors in bull markets for decades, have been pushed to the brink of extinction by chief executive officers still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis.

Four companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index split their shares this year and 16 did in 2011, down from an average of 35 from 2004 through 2007 and a fraction of the 102 in 1997, data compiled by S&P and Bloomberg show. The disappearance of splits less than five years after stocks began their biggest plunge since the Great Depression underscores changing behavior by CEOs as well as individuals who haven’t returned to equities.

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