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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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FXCM is a holding company. Through its membership interest in FXCM Holding, LLC, Co. is an online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services to retail and institutional customers. Co.'s primary offering to retail customers is an agency execution or an agency model. Under the agency model, when a customer executes a trade on the price quotation provided by the FX market maker, Co. acts as a credit intermediary, or a riskless principal, simultaneously entering into a trade with the customer and the FX market maker. Co. also provides its customers the ability to trade contract for differences and spread betting through U.K. subsidiaries. According to our FXCM split history records, FXCM has had 1 split. | |
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FXCM (FXCM) has 1 split in our FXCM split history database. The split for FXCM took place on October 01, 2015. This was a 1 for 10 reverse split, meaning for each 10 shares of FXCM owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 100 share position following the split.
When a company such as FXCM 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 FXCM split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 100 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into FXCM shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of FXCM, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete FXCM split history.
Growth of $10,000.00
With Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
04/29/2014 |
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End date: |
02/24/2017 |
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Start price/share: |
$153.00 |
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End price/share: |
$2.80 |
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Starting shares: |
65.36 |
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Ending shares: |
66.17 |
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Dividends reinvested/share: |
$1.80 |
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Total return: |
-98.15% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-75.60% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$185.31 |
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Years: |
2.83 |
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Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
04/29/2014 |
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End date: |
02/24/2017 |
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Start price/share: |
$153.00 |
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End price/share: |
$2.80 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$1.80 |
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Total return: |
-96.99% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-71.05% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$300.52 |
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Years: |
2.83 |
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Date |
Ratio |
10/01/2015 | 1 for 10 |
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