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What is a Stock Split? And Why Do Companies Split Their Shares? - Duration: 4:32.

Dylan Lewis: Hey, I'm Fool.com editor, Dylan Lewis, and on this episode of FAQ we're

going to talk pizza and stock splits.

OK, I'm going to offer you two different options.

You can have one slice of a 12-inch pizza that's been cut into quarters, or you can

have two slices of a 12-inch pizza that's been cut into eighths.

Which one do you choose?

Think about your answer.

While you do, let's walk through what a stock split is.

All companies that are publicly traded, have a certain number of shares outstanding.

Let's say I have a publicly traded company that's worth $1 million and ownership of

that company is divided into 10,000 shares outstanding.

So, each share is worth $100.

Now, let's say my company puts up some awesome business results.

We release a bunch of new products.

Those products sell really well and customers are happy.

Thanks to the massive boost in sales over a few years, the business grows to

$10 million in value.

Now, each share is worth $1,000, at this point.

As management, I might look at that and say, "You know, that's a lot of money that

people need to have in order to become a shareholder of my company.

I want to make sure that the average person can buy one share and become an investor.

If that's the case, I might decide to do a stock split.

Say I do a five for one split.

One share, now, becomes five.

So, the total shares outstanding will become 50,000 for the company, and the price of each

share will go from $1,000 to $200.

The total value of the business stays the same.

The total value each shareholder holds stays the same.

The only thing that changes is the number of shares and how much they're worth.

That five for one example was for the sake of round numbers and my math skills, but most

stock splits are either two for one or three for two.

Now, you might be thinking: "Why?

If stock splits do nothing for the value, why do companies do them?"

Well, companies might decide to do it to make it easier for the average investor to buy shares.

If someone is trying to save $100 per month to invest, they have to wait a lot longer

to buy shares if they want to buy shares that are priced at $1,000 instead of $50.

This was the main reason Apple decided to go through a seven for one stock split a few

years ago.

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said in 2014: "We're taking this action to make Apple stock more

accessible to a larger number of investors."

Companies will, also, do this because there are some special securities, like options,

that are sold in lots of 100.

We'll talk about options on a future episode, but for the purposes here, just know that

they generally need to be sold in blocks of 100 shares.

So, if a company's stock price is very high, it requires a lot of money upfront to transact

these options.

Like the previous reason, companies might split their stock to make it easier for people

to do that.

One third reason that you'll see companies go through a stock split is that it increases

the number of shares outstanding, meaning there are more available shares to trade,

which can help with liquidity.

There are actually some companies that intentionally avoid splitting their stock, and the main reason:

stock splits are cosmetic changes to a company's ownership.

They don't change the fundamentals of the business at all, and a high share price tends

to attract long-term buy-and-hold investors and it actually makes it harder for people

to short-term trade in and out of a company.

This quote, from Warren Buffett's 1993 annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders,

pretty much sums it up: "Were we to split the stock or take other actions focusing on

stock price rather than business value, we would attract an entering class of buyers

inferior to the exiting class of sellers.

Could we really improve our shareholder group by trading some of our present clear-thinking

members for impressionable new ones who, preferring paper to values, feel wealthier with

nine $10 bills than with one $100 bill?"

Buffet ultimately caved and created a separate class of Berkshire shares and a split, but

he has never split the voting Berkshire A shares, which currently trade at over $300,000 each.

More management teams are starting to think like Buffett.

In 1997, over 100 companies in the S&P 500 split their stocks.

In 2016, that figure was down to seven.

Executives are wising up to the fact that stock splits are not worth their time and

the rise of brokerages offering fractional shares have made it easier for investors with

less money to, still, get into the market.

You'll hear people say, "Oh, stock splits are a bullish sign.

It means the company thinks they're going to keep growing and the share price is going

to keep going up."

No!

It's just shuffling around how ownership is held.

Going back to our pizza example, some people might prefer to get two smaller slices instead

of monster piece of pizza.

The reality is you're getting the same amount of pizza, either way.

The same goes for a stock split.

There may be some short-term movements related to the news, but long-term, shares move because

of the business results that companies put up, not the number of ways ownership is sliced up.

Thanks for watching, guys!

If you enjoyed this video, we've got plenty more like it coming up.

Hit subscribe down on the bottom right and give us a thumbs up.

If you have any questions, on things I hit in the video, drop them in the

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What is a Block Explorer? - Duration: 0:47.

So what's a block Explorer? All a block Explorer is it's a website or any other piece of software that allows you to

See the blockchain so some examples are

blockchain.com

Etherscan.io so these are places where people can go and see

the blocks and the

transactions of the entire blockchain and there are thousands of them and you can go and see them live so

I send ten dollars to Sam via Bitcoin or I send 10 Bitcoin to Sam or whatever

then the transaction actually show

on blockchain.com if I find a correct block

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What Is Inside Of A Black Hole? - Duration: 7:06.

Black holes are a deep dark mystery.

Literally.

Our galaxy alone is thought to contain anywhere between 10 million to a billion of them.

We know they have the ability to destroy planets, maybe even solar systems, but why exactly?

What is going on in there?

Hello and welcome back to Life's Biggest Questions, the channel that wants to answer

everything and anything but actually, curiosity didn't kill the cat… that's just a thing

people say to keep you in your place.

Knowledge is power, but is there anything more powerful than a black hole?

Seemless.

I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What is inside of a black hole?

Okay but I also really quickly want to say that each and everytime I host these videos

Muse's Supermassive Black Hole dances through my head all day….anyone else know that song…just

me?

*editors play clip.*

Right – before we get into this video, I want to ask you what YOU think is inside a

black hole?

While you are down there leaving a comment, why don't you hit that thumbs up button

and share this video with a person that needs to see the inside of a black hole today.

Also if you want to connect with the team that went into making this video, there are

links to our socials in the description box.

Okay, black holes.

So black holes were first discussed in the 18th century, but it was David Finkelstein's

1958 publication that established them as a region of space from which nothing can escape.

Fast forward 60 years and we now know a little more about black holes but, excuse the very

intentional pun, we are still very much in the dark.

In fact, one of the biggest goals in astrophysics is to understand and observe what happens

in a black hole.

What we do know is that black holes are areas of space and time that exhibit such strong

gravitational pulls on all things, from particles to radiation and even light, that nothing

can escape it.

This has lead scientists to realise that black holes are very, very, very dense.

There are two types of observable black hole – Supermassive and Stellar Mass…although

there may well be a third; miniature black holes.

At the moment we are going to talk about the two observables.

Supermassive black holes have the mass of many millions, maybe even billions, of stars

and stellar mass black holes are still dense, but on a much smaller scale.

These black holes comes from the gravitational collapse of a huge star.

Our sun, would need to be around 25 times its size to create a supernova and then a

black hole.

Stellar mass black holes can be anywhere from 10 times as dense as our sun.

The nearest one to earth is thought to be up to 12 times the mass of our sun.

Named Monocerotis, it is 3,000 lightyears away…that's 18 trillion miles….

It would take the fastest rocket we have on earth hundreds of thousands of years to reach

it…so, probing is basically at this point not an option….we are doing our best when

it comes to telescopes; Hubble can actually observe light from 13.2 billion lightyears…so

we can see them…we just can't travel to get a better look.

So, as you may have gathered, because of the limitations of current technology, we can

only observe what is going on surrounding a black hole, rather than knowing exactly

what is inside – however our observations give us a clue.

It seems that blackholes are so, so dense that they cause the laws of physics as we

know to break down.

The way gravity works is that objects of a lower mass are drawn to objects of a higher

mass.

Black holes have extremely high masses and they start to break down things that approach

it.

It can tear planets and even stars apart.

The black hole is kind of like a drain in slow motion, Particles that have been torn

from what they previously are, as well as radiation and light, swirl in that hole until

they fall in.

This swirl is called the event horizon…which is very much the point of no return – from

this point you can't see any light as no light can escape.

We have never seen beyond the event horizon, all we see is what is not there – darkness…a

black hole.

We do have some pretty educated theories as to what could be inside, though.

Well, for starters, it is hot.

The event horizon may as well be called the ring of fire - as the material gets consumed

by the black hole, friction heats it up to billions of degrees, producing lots of radiation,

and outflows of energy and charged particles.

Beyond that, it is thought that the black hole is like a funnel, leading down to a small,

very very very dense place just one atom wide, as matter is destroyed and sucked into the

hole, it is stretched out in a process scientist call spaghettification.

The thing is…. even if we could get up close to a black hole – anything or anybody we

have on earth would be destroyed and sucked in by it – so couldn't report back exactly

what is inside.

It is a paradox.

Although, the paradox in theory could be broken if something could travel fast enough through

it – perhaps faster than the speed of light.

It's just a theory, but some cosmologists are pretty keen on it.

Even if we could travel that fast – I am not sure I would want to be the one testing

it out.

Toward the end of his life, Professor Stephen Hawking was working on a theory of multiverses.

He alluded to the possibility of a black hole spilling its matter out into a separate place….a

new universe, maybe.

He said The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage

to another universe.

But you couldn't come back to our universe."

So…what is in a black hole….If it sounds like I haven't really answered the question

so much as I have discussed black holes in general, you would be right.

As of yet, we simply do not know what is inside a black hole, but as we discuss them and study

them.

The answer may be closer on the horizon than we think, too.

Scientists have created a machine called the Large Hadron Collider – it is a particle

smasher that they want to use to simulate some of the things that happened at the beginning

of the universe.

Not only could this machine shed more light on the big bang – some think it could create

miniature black holes.

This may be a touch far fetched, but if it could…then perhaps we would be able to answer

this question once and for all.

So guys, what do you think is in a black hole?

Let me know in the comments section down below.

Also why don't you click that thumbs up button to and the notification bell to be

the first to hear big answers.

My head feels like it has been sucked into a black hole so I need to get out of here.

Thanks for listening.

I am your host Rebecca Felgate, I'll catch you in the next video, but until then – stay

curious, stay alert and never ever stop questioning.

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What is Sickle Cell Disease with Dr. Jegede - Duration: 1:30.

Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of the hemoglobin.

Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen.

It is a very chronic

and lifelong disease that affects mostly the African-American,

but other tribes also can be affected,

but in the United States it is mostly seen in the African-American population.

Unfortunately, pain is the hallmark

of the symptoms of sickle cell disease and because of the sickle shape of these cells, they are not as mobile as

you have in a normal red blood cell,

so they block all the small vessels in the body - we call them micro-vessels,

- and when they block them, of course the downward path is devoid of oxygen.

Because of that you have a lot of pain and tissue damage.

It is a chronic disease, but it is manageable

The patient will need to be a lot of things on their own to be able to manage,

especially to prevent complications.

So, the first thing I will say is to come and establish care with us in the Patient Care Center.

It is dedicated for sickle cell patients.

We manage this patient in a comprehensive way, we assess them, diagnose them

and also manage them.