Perhaps you should stop buying shares. But anyway, there's a number of reasons that stock splits have gone out of fashion.Until the rise of discount, online brokerages, the minimum number of shares you could transact was usually 100. So a stock price north of $50 was a real barrier to entrance for small players. If you have trouble with $500, imagine how it would have been if the entrance fee was $5000 in 1999 dollars? Also, there is a cost associated with each shareholder in internal accounting, mailing fees, vote counting, etc... the companies are quite happy to have fewer shareholders, especially the ones who buy 1 share so they can complain about their bicycles.
