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Excerpt from Earnings and Stock Splits <p>The objective of this paper is to examine whether stock splits convey information about firms' earnings in the period surrounding the split announcements. In order to mitigate any confounding effects of simultaneous dividend changes, only firms that do not pay cash dividends at the time of the stock split are included in the sample. Our tests, based on a sample of 121 stock split announcements from the period 1970-1980, lead to several conclusions. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.