Jose ---
Usually a spilt is like getting a bump in the dividend -- because generally the stock continues to rise -- but now you have twice as many shares. That's not always true - but generally a company splits it's stock because things are going well. That's really the most crucial underlying point -- you want own good (GREAT!) companies to begin with... and the rest just "happens".
Splits are what made the dot bomb companies go crazy with share price growth -- Microsoft - Dell - Intel - etc all split and had babies like rabbits. Back then it was a lot of explosive growth -- where as Coke (KO) is just good old fashioned organic growth.
So here's the real crux of anything like this - whether you buy before - during or after a split -- what you really want to buy is a great company. Don't play the split 'game' -- if it's a company you want to own - great - if not - then move on and buy something else but don't buy just based on some exogenous event.
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