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Video: What is a Stock Split?
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VisionChina Media is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries and variable interest entities, Co. operates out-of-home advertising network using real-time mobile digital television broadcasts to deliver content and advertising on mass transportation systems in China. Co.'s advertising network consists of digital television displays located on buses and in subway trains and subway platforms that receive mobile digital television broadcasts of real-time content and advertising. Co. also operates various closed-circuit advertising digital displays in certain subway platforms and subway trains in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Tianjin. According to our VISN split history records, VISN has had 1 split. | |
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VISN (VISN) has 1 split in our VISN split history database. The split for VISN took place on December 12, 2012. This was a 1 for 20 reverse split, meaning for each 20 shares of VISN owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 1 share. For example, a 1000 share position pre-split, became a 50 share position following the split.
When a company such as VISN 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 VISN split history from start to finish, an original position size of 1000 shares would have turned into 50 today. Below, we examine the compound annual growth rate — CAGR for short — of an investment into VISN shares, starting with a $10,000 purchase of VISN, presented on a split-history-adjusted basis factoring in the complete VISN split history.
Growth of $10,000.00
Without Dividends Reinvested
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Start date: |
11/07/2014 |
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End date: |
03/17/2017 |
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Start price/share: |
$9.98 |
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End price/share: |
$2.24 |
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Dividends collected/share: |
$0.00 |
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Total return: |
-77.56% |
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Average Annual Total Return: |
-46.96% |
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Starting investment: |
$10,000.00 |
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Ending investment: |
$2,244.51 |
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Years: |
2.36 |
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12/12/2012 | 1 for 20 |
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