National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) currently looks and acts like a different stock or ADR. The reason is because of its reverse stock split, at 1-for-5, which just took effect this week. Now shares are up around $2.48, and the adjusted 52-week trading range is $2.15 to $11.85.
NBG has now reported a net loss for its third quarter , due in part to higher provisions against losses and bad debt. Greece’s economic turmoil played a large part as well. NBG also will need to raise capital before a coming write-down of the Greek debt.
This is becoming a ghost stock and the split-adjustment may just make for less trading in the stock. A $2.50 or so price is not exactly expensive for many of the low-priced and penny stock traders, but reverse splits often remove much of the trading volume regardless of the price. This means that there are now only about 20% as many shares outstanding.
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