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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor that provides offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry. Co.'s primary business is the ownership and operation of drillships, semi-submersible rigs and jack-up rigs for operations in shallow to ultra-deepwater areas in both benign and harsh environments. Co. contracts its drilling units to drill wells for its customers on a dayrate basis. Typically, Co.'s customers are integrated oil and gas companies, state-owned national oil companies and independent oil and gas companies. Co. operates in three business segments: Floaters, Jack-up rigs and Other. According to our SDRL split history records, Seadrill Limited has had 1 split. | |
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Seadrill Limited (SDRL) has 1 split in our SDRL split history database. The split for SDRL took place on July 03, 2018. This was a 100 for 26777 reverse split, meaning for each 26777 shares of SDRL owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 100 shares. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 3.73454830638234 share position following the split.
When a company such as Seadrill Limited 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 SDRL split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 3.73454830638234 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into Seadrill Limited shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of SDRL, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete SDRL split history.

Growth of $10,000.00
With Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
03/07/2011 |
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End date: |
06/19/2020 |
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Start price/share: |
$9,786.99 |
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End price/share: |
$0.51 |
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Starting shares: |
1.02 |
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Ending shares: |
1.42 |
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Dividends reinvested/share: |
$3,290.89 |
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Total return: |
-99.99% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-64.17% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$0.72 |
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Years: |
9.29 |
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Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
03/07/2011 |
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End date: |
06/19/2020 |
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Start price/share: |
$9,786.99 |
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End price/share: |
$0.51 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$3,290.89 |
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Total return: |
-66.37% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-11.07% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$3,362.31 |
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Years: |
9.29 |
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Date |
Ratio |
07/03/2018 | 100 for 26777 |
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