RE: Consolidation5 Mar 2021 10:45
A share consolidation results in fewer shares held by investors, but a higher share price to compensate. I think one of the main uses of reverse stock splits or consolidations is primarily listing requirements as a company has to keep a share price above certain level to be on certain exchanges (definitely the case with American Stocks).
As an example of the above, If you had 14,000,000 shares at 0.2p, a 1 for 10 consolidation would result in 1,400,000 at 2p. The overall market value hasn't changed apart from, as Vauch said, anything that isn't devisable by the consolidation ratio at the time, but even then there is fractional pay for remainders if it is worth it.
If I have the wrong context here, let me know.