tesla has given investors something to look forward to this coming week a threeforone stock split as of the close of trading on aug 24 tesla shareholders will get a “dividend” of two extra shares the next day tesla stock will start trading at the new price—a third of what it used to be that may amount to little more than cutting the pizza into more slices but individual investors often chow down on bitesized pie one study found that stocks announcing splits typically beat the market by 16 percentage points over the next 12 months