Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently completed a much-talked-about stock split. Why was it such a big deal? Because Amazon's last such split was more than 20 years ago. As Amazon shares soared -- eventually ...

Back in March, e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it would conduct a 20-for-1 stock split, and in May, shareholders voted to approve it. The split has now officially taken effect, ...

Amazon is the biggest online retailer in the world. It's made tens of billions of dollars in profit, and the company uses that cash to finance its businesses and projects for future earnings growth.

Amazon's 20-for-1 stock split took effect today, at a price of $120 per share Today marked the first trading day following Amazon’s (AMZN) 20-for-1 stock split that the company announced on March 9.

Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has a history of stock splits. Essentially, a stock split is when a company takes its total number of shares and divides each share into multiple shares. The effect is ...