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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Key Energy Services is an onshore, rig-based well servicing contractor. Co.'s business segments are: Rig Services, which includes the completion of newly drilled wells, workover and recompletion of existing oil and natural gas wells, well maintenance, and the plugging and abandonment of wells at the end of their useful lives; Fishing and Rental Services, which provides fishing services and rental equipment; Coiled Tubing Services, which involves the use of a continuous metal pipe spooled onto a reel to deploy into oil and natural gas wells to perform various applications; and Fluid Management Services, which provides transportation and well-site storage services for various fluids. According to our KEG split history records, KEG has had 2 splits. | |
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KEG (KEG) has 2 splits in our KEG split history database. The first split for KEG took place on December 11, 1992. This was a 178 for 10000
reverse split, meaning for each 10000
shares of KEG owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 178 shares. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 17.8 share position following the split. KEG's second split took place on December 16, 2016. This was a 1 for 200 reverse split, meaning for each 200 shares of KEG owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 17.8 share position pre-split, became a 0.089 share position following the split.
When a company such as KEG 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 KEG split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 0.089 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into KEG shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of KEG, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete KEG split history.

Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
02/20/2015 |
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End date: |
11/27/2019 |
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Start price/share: |
$408.00 |
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End price/share: |
$0.27 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$0.00 |
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Total return: |
-99.93% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-78.45% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$6.62 |
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Years: |
4.77 |
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Date |
Ratio |
12/11/1992 | 178 for 10000
| 12/16/2016 | 1 for 200 |
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