Forward and reverse splits by year across US listings
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-09-26, from Do Stock Splits Change Your Dividend?.
| year | forward_splits | reverse_splits |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 415 | 725 |
| 2017 | 373 | 694 |
| 2018 | 514 | 519 |
| 2019 | 388 | 606 |
| 2020 | 346 | 679 |
| 2021 | 401 | 485 |
| 2022 | 362 | 620 |
| 2023 | 356 | 834 |
| 2024 | 447 | 868 |
| 2025 | 423 | 1036 |
- Rows × columns
- 10 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 10 distinct values (2016, 2017, 2018…) | |
forward_splits |
number | 346 to 514 | |
reverse_splits |
number | 485 to 1,036 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
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SELECT
toString(toYear(execution_date)) AS year,
countIf(split_to > split_from) AS forward_splits,
countIf(split_to < split_from) AS reverse_splits
FROM
(
SELECT
execution_date,
ticker,
max(split_from) AS split_from,
max(split_to) AS split_to
FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
WHERE execution_date >= addYears(toStartOfYear(today()), -10)
AND execution_date < toStartOfYear(today())
AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY execution_date, ticker
)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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