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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Danaos is engaged in providing international seaborne transportation services by operating vessels in the containership sector of the shipping industry. As of February 28, 2017, Co.'s fleet comprised of 53 containerships aggregating 329,588 TEUs. Co. deploys its containerships on multi-year, fixed-rate charters to take advantage of the stable cash flows and high utilization rates typically associated with multi-year charters. Co.'s customers included China Shipping, CMA-CGM, Hanjin, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Niledutch, MSC, Yang Ming and ZIM Israel Integrated Shipping Services. According to our DAC split history records, Danaos has had 1 split. |
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Danaos (DAC) has 1 split in our DAC split history database. The split for DAC took place on May 02, 2019. This was a 1 for 14 reverse split, meaning for each 14 shares of DAC owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 71.4285714285714 share position following the split.
When a company such as Danaos conducts a reverse share split, it is usually because shares have fallen to a lower per-share pricepoint than the company would like. This can be important because, for example, certain types of mutual funds might have a limit governing which stocks they may buy, based upon per-share price. The $5 and $10 pricepoints tend to be important in this regard. Stock exchanges also tend to look at per-share price, setting a lower limit for listing eligibility. So when a company does a reverse split, it is looking mathematically at the market capitalization before and after the reverse split takes place, and concluding that if the market capitilization remains stable, the reduced share count should result in a higher price per share.
Looking at the DAC split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 71.4285714285714 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into Danaos shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of DAC, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete DAC split history.

Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
12/16/2009 |
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End date: |
12/13/2019 |
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Start price/share: |
$67.90 |
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End price/share: |
$8.56 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$0.00 |
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Total return: |
-87.39% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-18.71% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$1,260.72 |
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Years: |
10.00 |
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Ratio |
05/02/2019 | 1 for 14 |
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