Over its publicly traded history, Amazon has split its stock a total of four times. Three of these were during its early years while the dot-com boom was still going on, and one was more recent. But ...

Amazon invests its earnings back into the company to further boost profit. Here’s what you need to know about Amazon’s dividend and stock split history.

Amazon is the biggest online retailer in the world. It's made tens of billions of dollars in profit, and the company uses that cash to finance its businesses and projects for future earnings growth.