Recent share-count adjustments on large foreign issuer receipts
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 2026-08-22, from How ADRs Work: Ratios, Fees and Dividends.
| event | old_share_count | new_share_count |
|---|---|---|
| UL Dec 2025 | 9 | 8 |
| HDB Sep 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| SONY Oct 2024 | 1 | 5 |
| NVO Sep 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| HDB Sep 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| INFY Sep 2018 | 1 | 2 |
| IBN Jun 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| BTI Feb 2017 | 1 | 2 |
- Rows × columns
- 8 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
event |
text | 8 distinct values (BTI Feb 2017, HDB Sep 2019, HDB Sep 2025…) | |
old_share_count |
number | 1 to 9 | count |
new_share_count |
number | 1 to 8 | count |
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
SELECT
concat(ticker, ' ', formatDateTime(execution_date, '%b %Y')) AS event,
toUInt32(any(split_from)) AS old_share_count,
toUInt32(any(split_to)) AS new_share_count
FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
WHERE ticker IN ('BABA', 'NVO', 'SONY', 'TM', 'HDB', 'IBN', 'INFY', 'PDD', 'TSM', 'SAP', 'UL', 'BTI', 'ASML', 'MUFG', 'SMFG', 'TEVA', 'ERIC', 'STLA')
AND execution_date >= today() - 3650
AND execution_date <= today()
GROUP BY ticker, execution_date
ORDER BY execution_date DESC
LIMIT 12
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