Over the past four years, Wall Street has been particularly volatile, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S 500, and Nasdaq Composite swinging back and forth between bear and bull markets on a couple of occasions.

Though volatility is perfectly normal for the broader market, heightened vacillations in equities often lead investors to seek out the safety of profitable, time-tested companies. For the past decade, the FAANG stocks have served as something of a safety blanket for investors. But over the past two years and change, stocks enacting splits have also fit the bill.

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