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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Emerging Global Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Titans Index Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective of total return by investing in the constituent securities of the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Titans Index (the “Underlying Index”). The Underlying Index is a stock market index comprised of 30 leading emerging markets companies that Dow Jones Indices deem to be in the Metals & Mining sector of the global economy. The Metals & Mining sector is a sub-sector of the Basic Materials industry, as defined by their ICB (Industry Classification Benchmark) methodology. As of Mar 31 2013, Co. had total assets of $8,563,191 and total investments of $8,502,115. According to our EMT split history records, EMT has had 2 splits. | |
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EMT (EMT) has 2 splits in our EMT split history database. The first split for EMT took place on June 16, 2003. This was a 1 for 5 reverse split, meaning for each 5 shares of EMT owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 200 share position following the split. EMT's second split took place on September 16, 2010. This was a 3 for 1 split, meaning for each share of EMT owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 3 shares. For example, a 200 share position pre-split, became a 600 share position following the split.
When a company such as EMT splits its shares, the market capitalization before and after the split takes place remains stable, meaning the shareholder now owns more shares but each are valued at a lower price per share. Often, however, a lower priced stock on a per-share basis can attract a wider range of buyers. If that increased demand causes the share price to appreciate, then the total market capitalization rises post-split. This does not always happen, however, often depending on the underlying fundamentals of the business. When a company such as EMT 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 EMT split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 600 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into EMT shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of EMT, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete EMT split history.

EMT -- use the split history when considering split-adjusted past price performance. |
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06/16/2003 | 1 for 5 | 09/16/2010 | 3 for 1 |
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