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Forward and reverse splits per calendar year

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 Cost Basis After a Stock Split, Step by Step.

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Forward and reverse splits per calendar year — 11 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearforward_splitsreverse_splits
2016149266
2017379701
2018516524
2019388606
2020352679
2021404488
2022362622
2023358834
2024451867
20254241036
2026289778
Rows × columns
11 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Forward and reverse splits per calendar year, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year text 11 distinct values (2016, 2017, 2018…)
forward_splits number 149 to 516
reverse_splits number 266 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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
    toString(toYear(execution_date))     AS year,
    toUInt32(countIf(to_val > from_val)) AS forward_splits,
    toUInt32(countIf(from_val > to_val)) AS reverse_splits
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        execution_date,
        any(split_from) AS from_val,
        any(split_to)   AS to_val
    FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
    WHERE execution_date >= subtractYears(today(), 10)
      AND execution_date <= today()
      AND split_from > 0
      AND split_to > 0
    GROUP BY ticker, execution_date
)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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