Learn how to calculate cost basis, adjust for stock splits and dividends, and understand its tax implications with practical examples.

Stock splits are a way for companies to lower their stock price and attract new investors. Learn how they work and how you should respond to a split.

A stock split is when a company increases the number of its outstanding shares of stock to boost the stock's liquidity.

Many stock investments, in particular, are designed to produce a combination of income and capital gains. Total return combines these two types of investment returns into a single metric.

The price of Noble Energy shares will be cut in half this coming Wednesday, when the oil-and-gas-exploration company's previously announced 2-for-1 split goes into effect. This will follow close ...

How to Calculate the Value of Preferred Stock Calculating the value of preferred stock involves taking into account fixed dividend payments and the required rate of return.

In the year after Apple's first 2-for-1 stock split, on June 16, 1987, shares returned 9.6%, outperforming the S&P 500's 9.9% decline during the same period, Ally Invest said in a blog post ...