Meta Platforms has never split its stock before, but a split could help boost confidence in its AI infrastructure plans.
With a price of over $1,000, ASML is overdue for a stock split to become more attractive to individual investors.
CrowdStrike has never split its stock, but now could be a good time as its growth begins to re-accelerate.
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Stock splits multiply or divide a company’s outstanding share count…
Meta Platforms has never split its stock before, but a split could help boost confidence in its AI infrastructure plans.
With a price of over $1,000, ASML is overdue for a stock split to become more attractive to individual investors.
CrowdStrike has never split its stock, but now could be a good time as its growth begins to re-accelerate.
10 stocks we like better than Meta Platforms ›
Stock splits multiply or divide a company’s outstanding share count and thus change each share’s price, but they don’t change its overall market capitalization. When splits occur (especially forward splits), they can be a nice catalyst for the stock, as they tend to make share prices more accessible to the average investor. As such, buying a stock ahead of a split can sometimes be a good move for investors.
Let’s look at three stocks I think are set to enact stock splits next year.
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is the only "Magnificent Seven" stock to have never split its stock. However, with a stock price starting to approach $700, 2026 could be the year Meta management pulls the trigger and splits its stock.
Such a move could help evoke management’s confidence in its stock at a time it wants the market to trust its large artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure spending plans. It also made a smart move by saying it will reduce spending on metaverse projects, as it would be difficult to aggressively pursue both at the same time.
Meanwhile, the company has been seeing good traction from its AI spending, which has been helping drive its ad revenue. It’s using its proprietary Llama AI model to improve its recommendation algorithm, which keeps users on its apps longer, as well as helps advertisers create better campaigns and improve targeting. This helped power a 26% increase in revenue last quarter.
With its stock price over $1,000, ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) is another company that looks poised to split its stock in 2026. The company last had a forward stock split all the way back in April 2000, when it did a 3:1 split. At the time, its price was around $109 (split adjusted) before the split.
Given its stock price, a stock split looks overdue. Meanwhile, it could help get investors excited for one of the most under-the-radar AI plays in the market. The company owns a monopoly on extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), which is the technology needed to make advanced semiconductor chips such as graphics processing units (GPUs). Quite simply, without its EUV machines, there would be no AI boom.