";s:4:"text";s:3866:"Investors and market watchers are once again speculating about a Google stock split after the company's shares (GOOG) topped $1,000 on Friday …
Google split its stock in April 2014, which created the A and C shares.
The shares will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on August 31. All rights reserved.
(Watch out, Alderaan!) Some companies have opted for multiple classes of shares, all in the effort of ensuring management maintains the right to control.Multiple classes of shares work best in companies with a proven track record of growth. Find out how its split changed its stock forever. Many were unhappy with what they perceived as an attempt by Google’s cofounders to hoard control over Google. But the proposal was held up in court after shareholders sued to block it, arguing that the terms of the agreement were unfair.
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Shareholders rejected the push on concerns that the split’s unique structure would benefit insiders and not them.A bone of contention cycled around how the tech giant intended to create multiple classes of shares. With these structure insiders owning the Class C shares could sell their holdings and still not dilute their holdings in terms of voting rights, by virtue of owning Class A. After months of litigation, an agreement was reached between the company and shareholders, resulting in the split in 2013.The settlement provided owners of Class C shares with compensation whenever the shares traded at a discount of more than 1% from Class A shares within the first year of trading.
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