1 Stock-Split Stock to Buy Hand Over Fist in August and 1 to Avoid Like the Plague

When examined over long stretches, history shows that Wall Street's major indexes head decisively higher. But over shorter timelines, the directional movement in stocks is no more certain than a coin flip.

Over the trailing-two-year period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S 500, and Nasdaq Composite have all surged to new highs, plummeted into a bear market, and are all, once again, pushing higher. When Wall Street whipsaws investors, they have a tendency to seek out time-tested businesses. In recent years, the answer for investors has been to gravitate to stocks enacting splits.

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