{"id":26229,"date":"2026-04-02T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26229"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:43:09","slug":"what-are-corporate-actions","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-are-corporate-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Corporate Actions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A corporate action is any decision made by a company that brings a material change to its stock or affects its shareholders. When a company announces a bonus issue, pays a dividend, splits its stock, or goes through a merger, each of these is a corporate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a shareholder, corporate actions directly affect the number of shares you hold, the price of those shares, or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Common Corporate Actions You&#8217;ll Come Across<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Dividend<\/strong> &#8211; The company distributes a portion of its profits to shareholders in cash.<\/li><li><strong>Bonus Issue<\/strong> &#8211; Existing shareholders receive additional shares at no cost.<\/li><li><strong>Stock Split<\/strong> &#8211; Shares are divided into multiple units, adjusting the price proportionally.<\/li><li><strong>Rights Issue<\/strong> &#8211; Shareholders get the option to buy additional shares at a discounted price.<\/li><li><strong>Buyback<\/strong> \u2014 The company repurchases its own shares from shareholders.<\/li><li><strong>Merger or Acquisition<\/strong> \u2014 The company combines with or is acquired by another entity.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2855],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26231,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26229\/revisions\/26231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26229"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}