# Professor April Klein's joint research on reverse stock splits is spotlighted

1 Faculty News May 24, 2019 ![Barron's logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031072.jpg?itok=FtY-yu99)>

Excerpt from [Barron's](https://www.barrons.com/articles/blue-apron-is-planning-a-reverse-split-heres-what-it-might-mean-51558749873) -- "Researchers from New York University’s Stern School of Business and Emory University found that in 1,600 reverse splits from 1962 to 2001, shares underperformed nonsplit peers by 15.6% in the first year after the split, 36% in the second, and 54% in the third."

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