Apple has grown increasingly dominant, and its stock is soaring to new heights. The company is aiming to make it easier for more investors to get in on the action with a stock split that will ...

Apple's 7-for-1 stock split on June 9, 2014, was followed by a 36% return over the next year. Shares handily outperformed the S&P 500's 6.6% return over the same period.

Apple's stock split, effective Aug. 31, will lead some money managers to sell shares as they adjust to mimic the Dow Jones industrial average's makeup.

Apple split each of its shares into four. Image source: Getty Images. First of all, investors need to understand that a stock split does not change the fundamental value of a business.

Since going public in 1980, Apple’s stock has split four times. In 1987, 2000 and 2005 the stock was split on a 2-for-1 basis. In June 2014, the Cupertino, Calif., company split the stock on a 7 ...

Due to the split, Apple shares will be unavailable for extended after-hours trading on Friday June 6. Additionally, all equity and option orders open as of the close of the market on June 6 will ...