Having trouble understanding what ‘Consolidating Shares’ means. Please can someone ELI5?

I understand that it’s reducing the number of shares and raising the price of each individual share (I think anyway) but not sure if when the price goes up that you are actually making that money on each share since there are now less shares.

Submitted May 15, 2018 at 09:12AM by peardski22 https://ift.tt/2jZmZLY