As inventory splits have turn into a rarity and shares well-liked with retail traders have become more and more costly, lots of buying and selling in these securities happens in odd tons. The economic value of fifty shares of a $100 inventory, in spite of everything is identical as the financial worth of a hundred shares of a $50 stock. But excluding odd lot data from SIP feeds for these higher-priced shares eliminates quite so much of price discovery info for investors and widens perceived spreads in these stocks somewhat artificially.