Apple Inc. (AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX): Who Can Split Their Stocks

In its most recent earnings release, the company’s management clearly laid out their intention to grow the breadth of its original programming into more documentaries and stand-up comedy specials. The company is rapidly following in the footsteps of Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC)‘s HBO. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has gained a lot of ground on HBO already, and will have a original content library very similar to HBO’s in the future.

Creating shareholder value

Even though stock splits don’t create any real value, they do bring in newer investors on board. By making a stock more accessible to a wider net of investors the likes of Netflix, Apple and Amazon can unlock additional value for their respective shareholders. All these 3 companies have stock prices that trade well above $200 a share, and can squeeze out more value for investors by splitting their shares into smaller pieces.

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