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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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GAIN Capital Holdings is a holding company. Co. is a provider of trading services and solutions, focusing on over-the-counter and exchange-traded markets. Co. operates in two segments. Through its retail segment, Co. provides its customers around the world with access to a range of global financial markets, including spot forex exchange, precious metals trading, as well as contracts for difference, which are investment products with returns linked to the performance of underlying assets. Co.'s futures segment provides execution and risk management services for exchange-traded futures and futures options on main United States and European futures and options exchanges. According to our GCAP split history records, GCAP has had 1 split. | |
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GCAP (GCAP) has 1 split in our GCAP split history database. The split for GCAP took place on September 11, 1996. This was a 1 for 5
reverse split, meaning for each 5
shares of GCAP 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.
When a company such as GCAP 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 GCAP 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 GCAP shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of GCAP, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete GCAP 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: |
07/31/2020 |
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Start price/share: |
$10.01 |
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End price/share: |
$6.04 |
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Starting shares: |
999.00 |
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Ending shares: |
1,238.32 |
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Dividends reinvested/share: |
$1.40 |
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Total return: |
-25.21% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-4.53% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$7,481.03 |
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Years: |
6.26 |
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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: |
07/31/2020 |
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Start price/share: |
$10.01 |
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End price/share: |
$6.04 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$1.40 |
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Total return: |
-25.67% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-4.63% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$7,432.11 |
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Years: |
6.26 |
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Date |
Ratio |
09/11/1996 | 1 for 5
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