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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Demand Media is an Internet company that builds platforms across its media and marketplaces properties that enable communities of creators to reach audiences in lifestyle categories. Co.'s business is comprised of two service offerings: Content and Media, and Marketplaces. Co.'s Content and Media service offering includes its online properties that publish media content, including text articles, videos, photographs and designed visual formats. Through its Marketplaces service offering, Co. operates two art and design marketplaces where communities of artists can market and sell their artwork or designs printed on a range of products. According to our DMD split history records, DMD has had 1 split. | |
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DMD (DMD) has 1 split in our DMD split history database. The split for DMD took place on August 04, 2014. This was a 504 for 1000 reverse split, meaning for each 1000 shares of DMD owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 504 shares. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 504 share position following the split.
When a company such as DMD 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 DMD split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 504 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into DMD shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of DMD, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete DMD split history.
Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
04/22/2014 |
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End date: |
11/08/2016 |
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Start price/share: |
$8.53 |
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End price/share: |
$6.35 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$0.00 |
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Total return: |
-25.56% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-10.93% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$7,443.56 |
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Years: |
2.55 |
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Date |
Ratio |
08/04/2014 | 504 for 1000 |
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