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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
No they don't. It's slightly confusing but when they do a stock split it's because they anticipate the price going up and they have a demand greater than the existing number of shares. 
  
 So when they split them they reduce the value but make it up with the new shares. Then when the value rises as they anticipated they have more shares worth more money. 
  
 Edit. As far as I'm aware with my limited knowledge mate

gpt
No that makes sense. Splitting stock is just that, splitting stock. U have pie, I split pie, u now have 2 'pies' but really is still just one pie. Issuing new shares is you have pie, I now sell more pies flooding the market with pie lowering the value of your pie