Do Stock Splits ACTUALLY Boost Returns? What the Numbers Say

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00:00 - Intro
01:36 - How Stock Splits Work
02:30 - Why People Think They Boost Returns
03:40 - Arguments Against the Idea
04:24 - My Analysis
05:52 - The Results (Effective Date)
07:31 - The Outliers
08:55 - The Results (Announcement Date)
10:15 - Large Cap Results
11:59 - Takeaways
13:03 - Sponsor

Some have been speculating that upcoming stock splits for big companies will be a source of outsized returns - is this reasonable? I did a small experiment to look into it.

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