Microsoft stock splits

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Microsoft’s Stock Has Split Nine Times

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Microsoft has split its stock nines times since it went public back in March 1986. Put very, very simply, a company will generally split its stock when its share price becomes too high.
Since Microsoft has had six 2-for-1 splits and three 3-for-1 splits, one original Microsoft share would now be equal to 288 shares today. Interestingly the price of Microsoft’s stock at its initial public offering was $21 a share, at the time of writing a share is now around the $23 mark. One original MSFT share would now be worth over $6,000. 

I bet you're wondering, "why would they post content that isn't theirs?" Well, we wanted to write a post about stock splits and how you can look past a company's stock and see how they've faired over history, just by using their history of stock splits. This is just a reference article.