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What effect does the issuance of a 2-for-1 stock split have on shares issued and retained earnings?

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The issuance of a 2-for-1 stock split on shares issued and the retained earnings, the share price will be halved.

Thus, a stock split always  increases the number of outstanding shares and proportionately it  lowers the price of the shares ,  In this issuance the  market capitalization of the company remains unchanged.

A stock split is a good decision taken by a company's board of directors to increase the number of shares outstanding by issuing more shares to current shareholders.

Stock splits can improve the  trading liquidity and the stocks are seemed to be more affordable.

The most common split ratios are 2-for-1 and 3-for-1, it means that a stockholder will have two or three shares, respectively, for each share held before the split of stocks.

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