MCX Stock Split Impact: What Investors and F&O Traders Need to Know

India’s biggest commodity derivatives exchange- Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) announced it’s first-ever stock split on December 18, 2025. The split ratio is 1:5 of MCX and record date is January 2, 2026. Through stock split it is expected that MCX shares more accessible to investors and change how its derivatives contracts (F&O) are structured.

In stock split company performed a corporate action in which company increases the number of its outstanding shares by dividing each existing share into multiple new shares. In this corporate action the total value of person investment does not change but your numbers of shares is increased with a proportionally lower price per share. For example, in a 1:5 split: