Reverse versus forward splits by 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 2026-09-20, from Upcoming Reverse Stock Splits: Live Calendar.
| year | reverse_splits | forward_splits | reverse_share_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 606 | 388 | 61 |
| 2020 | 679 | 346 | 65.9 |
| 2021 | 485 | 401 | 54.4 |
| 2022 | 620 | 362 | 63 |
| 2023 | 834 | 356 | 70 |
| 2024 | 868 | 447 | 65.9 |
| 2025 | 1036 | 423 | 71 |
| 2026 | 890 | 313 | 74 |
- Rows × columns
- 8 × 4
- 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 | 8 distinct values (2019, 2020, 2021…) | |
reverse_splits |
number | 485 to 1,036 | |
forward_splits |
number | 313 to 447 | |
reverse_share_pct |
number | 54.4 to 74 | 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.
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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
SELECT
toString(toYear(execution_date)) AS year,
countIf(from_shares > to_shares) AS reverse_splits,
countIf(to_shares > from_shares) AS forward_splits,
round(100.0 * countIf(from_shares > to_shares) / count(), 1) AS reverse_share_pct
FROM
(
SELECT
ticker,
execution_date,
max(toFloat64(split_from)) AS from_shares,
max(toFloat64(split_to)) AS to_shares
FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
WHERE execution_date >= toDate('2019-01-01')
AND execution_date <= today()
AND split_from != split_to
AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY ticker, execution_date
)
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
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