Back in the dot-com boom era, stock splits became commonplace in response to soaring share prices. Amid the current artificial intelligence (AI) boom, a similar pattern could be developing. Already, several AI companies have split their shares, and more splits could be on the way among the others that are trading at lofty prices.

One of the more tightly specialized artificial intelligence (AI) stocks on the market had quite a memorable Wednesday. On news that it is bulking up with an acquisition, investors piled into Powerfleet ( AIOT 7.