A decade of splits, 2016-2025: forward vs reverse totals and the annual score

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 2026-07-26, from What Is a Stock Split? Ratios and Mechanics.

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1 × 4

Computed

2026-07-26

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT sum(forward_splits) AS forward_total,
       sum(reverse_splits) AS reverse_total,
       round(sum(reverse_splits) / sum(forward_splits), 2) AS reverse_per_forward,
       countIf(reverse_splits > forward_splits) AS years_reverse_ahead
FROM (
    SELECT toYear(execution_date) AS year,
           countIf(split_to > split_from) AS forward_splits,
           countIf(split_from > split_to) AS reverse_splits
    FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
    WHERE execution_date >= '2016-01-01' AND execution_date < '2026-01-01'
    GROUP BY year
)