Announced Stock Splits

Whether a split is announced as a stock split or stock dividend to receive the additional shares you must buy the splitting stock before and hold it through the execution date. As traders and investors we are mostly interested in the announce and execution dates. These are the dates that have stock price movements associated with them. The date of record has relevance and often can be a turning point in the trend of the stock, but usually has no impact on being entitled to the split effect on the execution date.

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The equities highlighted in blue are stocks the "RightLine Report" and/or the Rightline exclusive list of "100 Stocks Most Likely to Split" forecasted would announce a split.

Below are the stocks that have recently executed or will be executing their splits over the next few days. Good performance or a "pre-split run" can occur as they near their execution dates.

Company Name (Sym)	Split Ratio	Execution Date	Record Date	Announce Date	Announce Price
Mercantile Bankshares (MRBK)	3-for-2	01/30	01/20	01/10	$57.00

The following list of upcoming splitters may be drifting, basing or consolidating which is not unusual. However, as they near their split date be on the look out for increasing momentum around 10 trading days before the execution date, an indicator the stock may be setting up for a pre-split run.

Company Name (Sym)	Split Ratio	Execution Date	Record Date	Announce Date	Announce Price
EMCOR Group, Inc (EME)	2-for-1	02/13	01/30	12/15	$68.39
Celadon Group (CLDN)	3-for-2	02/16	02/01	01/19	$27.27
Titanium Metals Corp (TIE)	2-for-1	02/17	02/06	01/13	$70.98

Below are the stocks that have recently announced or have unusually long split cycles. These stocks are in what we call a "Dormancy Phase." It is from this phase that many stocks move into the most powerful stage of the split cycle, the "Pre-Split Run."

Company Name (Sym)	Split Ratio	Execution Date	Record Date	Announce Date	Announce Price
Aetna (AET)	2-for-1	02/20	02/07	01/27	$93.00
First Cash Financial Services (FCFS)	2-for-1	02/21	02/06	01/26	$31.85
Broadcom Corp (BRCM)	3-for-2	02/22	02/06	01/26	$58.72
Intermagnetics General (IMGC)	3-for-2	02/22	02/06	01/26	$40.07
ITT Industries (ITT)	2-for-1	02/22	02/07	12/16	$97.82
Peabody Energy (BTU)	2-for-1	02/23	02/07	01/23	$89.46
Celgene Corp (CELG)	2-for-1	02/27	02/17	12/28	$57.48
Eagle Materials Inc (EXP)	3-for-1	02/27	02/10	01/25	$128.97
Canadian National Railway (CNR)	2-for-1	03/01	02/22	01/24	$83.47
Schlumberger Limited (SLB)	2-for-1	04/10	03/01	01/19	$112.65
Nabors Industries (NBR)	2-for-1	(a)	(a)	12/13	$77.41

(a) Pending Shareholder's Approval during Q1 2006

Note: You will not find stocks in the tables above with an average daily volume less than 50,000, as we deem them a bit more risky to hold or play.

To view details of RightLine splits forecasted and how they individually performed against the market indices visit Split Candidate Performance.

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