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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Metabolix is a biomaterials company focused on providing solutions to the plastics industry. Co. has focused on a family of biopolymers found in nature called polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which occur in living organisms and are chemically similar to polyesters. Co. is focused on commercializing PHA performance biopolymers and is targeting its research, development and commercial resources on the use of its Mirel® PHA biopolymers as performance additives in a range of applications where they can improve performance and/or reduce cost in other material systems such as polyvinyl chloride and polylactic acid. According to our MBLX split history records, MBLX has had 1 split. | |
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MBLX (MBLX) has 1 split in our MBLX split history database. The split for MBLX took place on May 27, 2015. This was a 1 for 6 reverse split, meaning for each 6 shares of MBLX owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 166.666666666667 share position following the split.
When a company such as MBLX 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 MBLX split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 166.666666666667 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into MBLX shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of MBLX, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete MBLX split history.
Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
04/28/2014 |
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End date: |
01/06/2017 |
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Start price/share: |
$6.00 |
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End price/share: |
$0.37 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$0.00 |
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Total return: |
-93.83% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-64.42% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$616.74 |
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Years: |
2.70 |
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Ratio |
05/27/2015 | 1 for 6 |
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