Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• REVERSE SPLIT
  
  Occurs when a corporation reduces the number of shares outstanding by reorganizing its capitalization structure. Here, fewer shares may be an effort to have a higher unit share price. One motivation for this is that some exchanges have listing/delisting criteria of which share price is a factor. The proportional ownership of the shareholders does not change but the shares held do change.
  
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