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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Frontline is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an international shipping company. Co. operates the following oil tankers: very large crude carriers and Suezmax tankers. Co. also operates LR2/Aframax tankers, which are clean product tankers. Co. operates through subsidiaries located in Bermuda, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Norway, the U.K. and Singapore. Co. is also involved in the charter, purchase and sale of vessels. According to our FRO split history records, Frontline has had 2 splits. | |
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Frontline (FRO) has 2 splits in our FRO split history database. The first split for FRO took place on February 03, 2016. This was a 1 for 5 reverse split, meaning for each 5 shares of FRO 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. FRO's second split took place on February 02, 2016.
When a company such as Frontline 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 FRO split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 200 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into Frontline shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of FRO, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete FRO split history.
Growth of $10,000.00
With Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
03/31/2014 |
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End date: |
03/27/2024 |
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Start price/share: |
$19.65 |
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End price/share: |
$23.28 |
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Starting shares: |
508.91 |
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Ending shares: |
915.13 |
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Dividends reinvested/share: |
$6.69 |
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Total return: |
113.04% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
7.86% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$21,306.60 |
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Years: |
10.00 |
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Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
03/31/2014 |
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End date: |
03/27/2024 |
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Start price/share: |
$19.65 |
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End price/share: |
$23.28 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$6.69 |
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Total return: |
52.52% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
4.31% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$15,247.87 |
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Years: |
10.00 |
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Date |
Ratio |
02/03/2016 | 1 for 5 | 02/02/2016 | 1 for 1 |
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