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Certainly diluting shares would usually cause an equal effect on the price. But there is a school of thought that rather than the official number of 70m shares, the market maker has created 100's of millions of synthetic shares "for purposes of liquidity". So there's that consideration.Without checking that share price a split normally takes place to make the shares more attractive to retail investors. I had Tesla shares and they got up to about $700 a pop. This makes them harder to buy for normal folk who fancy a punt, they’ll therefore reduce the price and give you more shares making them a bit more attractive to retail.
If there is a load of demand from the layman (not institutional investors) it could be good for the people that hold those shares.
What’s the price at presently out of interest?
Ps. Whilst it’s not a share split anything that puts more shares in circulation normally dilutes the share price as a simple company value = number of shares in circulation X share price
Current price is bouncing wildly from around $100 to $180.