In this edition of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool One analyst Jason Moser takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks: "Whatever happened to stock splits? There was a time when stocks were always splitting."

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Were stock splits more common in the past than today? How should a split affect your view of a stock?