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Where can I find time series of the times of stock splits of NYSE stocks?

• I have 80 time series of stock returns. I would like to find a website that would allow me to enter a stock's ticker, and obtain the exact dates of stock splits for this stock. For example, if I enter FON [ticker for Sprint], I expect to get the dates when that stock had stock splits: December 28, 1989 Month, day, 1999 This site has to be either free, or provide this information for all of the 80 stocks for under $50. Thank you!

• Answer:

  Yahoo! Finance has the information you seek. Here's how to access it: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=IBM. To the right of the boxes with the date range, you'll see four choices. Click on "Dividends Only" and press Enter again. Below you'll see a listing of all dividend payments -- including stock splits. To check other stocks, just enter the ticker symbols. As for harvesting the data, you have two options. First, you can simply copy and paste the data, then sort to weed out the stock splits rather than cash dividends. But in my experience, it's just as fast to simply write down the dividends and save the copying, pasting, and sorting time. V