today announced that its Board of Directors declared 5-for-4 stock splits on both its Class A Common Stock payable in shares of its Class A Common Stock and on its Common Stock payable in shares of its Common Stock. The stock splits, which will be effected in the form of 25% stock dividends on each of the classes of common stock, are payable to shareholders of record as of April 13, 2012. The additional shares will be distributed to shareholders on or about April 24, 2012. Fractional shares for the stock splits will be paid in cash based on the last sale price of each of the respective classes of common stock on the record date (as adjusted for the stock splits). Today's action marks HEICO's 13th stock dividend or stock split starting in 1995, when the Board began declaring such dividends or stock splits as it deemed appropriate. Laurans A. Mendelson, HEICO's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, remarked, "This stock split reflects our continuing confidence in HEICO's business outlook.