Oh look you found a good example of a forward split. You're a great researcher. Now find a company that went under "after" a forward split. See if you can find one, or will you just brush it off and say there aren't any? Hmmmmmmmmm
My father-in-law did EXACTLY that! Bought HD decades ago, held thru splits and reinvested dividends, left half a million each to his 4 kids and second wife. It does work! It's also the Warren Buffet axiom: the stock market is a perfect mechanism to take money from the impatient and give it to the patient. (or something like that..)