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The best-known recent stock splits: the six months before vs the three months after

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 2026-07-15, from Does a Stock Go Up After a Split?.

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The best-known recent stock splits: the six months before vs the three months after — 7 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerratioex_daterun_up_before_pctafter_3mo_pctspy_3mo_pct
NVDA10-for-12024-06-10165.6-11.22.5
AAPL4-for-12020-08-3167-7.63.6
AVGO10-for-12024-07-1557.45.83.2
TSLA3-for-12022-08-2516.7-38.1-4.1
NFLX10-for-12025-11-17-6.6-30.22.8
GOOGL20-for-12022-07-18-21-11.4-6.4
AMZN20-for-12022-06-06-28.81-5.1
Rows × columns
7 × 6
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The best-known recent stock splits: the six months before vs the three months after, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 7 distinct values (AAPL, AMZN, AVGO…)
ratio text 4 distinct values (10-for-1, 20-for-1, 3-for-1…)
ex_date date 2020-08-31 to 2025-11-17
run_up_before_pct number -28.8 to 165.6 percent
after_3mo_pct number -38.1 to 5.8 percent
spy_3mo_pct number -6.4 to 3.6 percent

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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH
cohort AS (
    SELECT ticker, max(execution_date) AS ex,
           argMax(concat(toString(split_to), '-for-', toString(split_from)), execution_date) AS ratio
    FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
    WHERE ticker IN ('NVDA', 'AVGO', 'NFLX', 'AMZN', 'GOOGL', 'AAPL', 'TSLA')
      AND split_to >= 2 * split_from
      AND adjustment_type IN ('forward_split', 'stock_dividend')
      AND execution_date >= '2020-01-01' AND execution_date <= '2026-01-31'
    GROUP BY ticker
),
bars AS (
    SELECT ticker, toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           toFloat64(argMax(close, window_start)) AS px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE (ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM cohort) OR ticker = 'SPY')
      AND window_start >= '2019-06-01 00:00:00' AND window_start < '2026-07-14 00:00:00'
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY ticker, d
),
series AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           arrayMap(x -> x.1, arraySort(x -> x.1, groupArray((d, px)))) AS days,
           arrayMap(x -> x.2, arraySort(x -> x.1, groupArray((d, px)))) AS prices
    FROM bars GROUP BY ticker
),
spy AS (SELECT days AS sd, prices AS sp FROM series WHERE ticker = 'SPY')
SELECT c.ticker AS ticker,
       c.ratio AS ratio,
       toString(c.ex) AS ex_date,
       round((s.prices[indexOf(s.days, c.ex) - 1] / s.prices[indexOf(s.days, c.ex) - 1 - 126] - 1) * 100, 1) AS run_up_before_pct,
       round((s.prices[indexOf(s.days, c.ex) + 63] / s.prices[indexOf(s.days, c.ex)] - 1) * 100, 1) AS after_3mo_pct,
       round((spy.sp[indexOf(spy.sd, c.ex) + 63] / spy.sp[indexOf(spy.sd, c.ex)] - 1) * 100, 1) AS spy_3mo_pct
FROM cohort c INNER JOIN series s ON s.ticker = c.ticker CROSS JOIN spy
WHERE indexOf(s.days, c.ex) > 130 AND length(s.prices) >= indexOf(s.days, c.ex) + 63
ORDER BY run_up_before_pct DESC

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