Wall Street Skinny co-founders Jen Saarbach and Kristen Kelly discuss Meta's (META) recently announced stock split with the Market Hang panel of experts. The panel includes Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments; Kenny Polcari, partner and chief market strategist at Slatestone Wealth; and Barbara Doran, CEO and CIO of BD8 Capital Partners.
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| Market | US stocks |
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| Industry | Interactive Media & Services |
| Market cap | $1.9T |
| Close on 10/21/2026 | 698.43 |
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Three trillion-dollar companies, Micron Technology (MU), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (META), are seen as possible next stock-split candidates. Micron, trading around $940, has split three times (1994, 1995, 2000) and reported record fiscal 2026 revenue driven by AI demand. Microsoft has split nine times, most recently a 2-for-1 split in February 2003, and its shares are above $540, with growth in cloud, AI and Copilot seen as possible support for another split. Meta has never split its stock; with shares just under $750 and second-quarter revenue up 28% year over year, it could be the first. The article ranks Micron as most likely to split first, Meta as hardest to predict, and Microsoft as potentially the last to act given its lowest share price of the three.
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