The free market dictates the price of every publicly traded company’s stock. All share prices exist at the intersection of what the seller is willing to accept and what the buyer is willing to pay.

Two industry-leading businesses are ideally positioned to announce and complete their respective first-ever splits.

Stock splits allow public companies to cosmetically alter their share price and outstanding share count by the same magnitude. Macroeconomic tailwinds and ongoing innovation have helped one industrial ...

Euphoria surrounding stock splits played a key role in propelling the S&P 500 to a new high. One of Wall Street's newest stock-split stocks -- Fastenal -- is set to complete its ninth split next week.