Shares

  

Categories: Stocks

Slices of pie. When you hear "shares," think: common stock. (See: Preferred Shares. See: Preferred Stock.)

You buy a share. Of stock. If a company has 10 million shares of stock and you own a million, you own 10% of the company; you get 10% of the vote for the board of directors. Welcome to America.

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finance a la shmoop what is earnings per share or EPS? okay you know the lemonade

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stand the one with 20 grand in sales and 16 grand in gross profits and yeah will [Balance sheet for Lemonade Stands R Us appears]

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spare you the gross jokes you know the customer asks lemonade.. what the fly

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was doing in his lemonade and yes of course she said the backstroke what else

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would you expect from the people at Schmo really?

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so after gross profits there were operating expenses like those and then

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operating profits down here that 7,500 thing then there were taxes and yeah

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there are always taxes we can grumble about and then finally net income aka [Net income appears on balance sheet]

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this little company the founder owns 60 of them mom owns 10 the new stepdad owns

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20 he was guilted into it by you know the divorce lawyer and Enrique the

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gardener for some reason who has cleverly weaseled his way into the

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families arts and minds owns the last 10 its annual report time and the investors

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want to know what their earnings per share were so that they can all compare

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relative performance on their investments right so the total earnings

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of the company in this example was five thousand two hundred fifty bucks which

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means that the earnings per share of our little lemonade stand company here or

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that 5,250 figure divided by a hundred or 52.50 a share that's [EPS formula appears]

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what each share earned if you divvy the company into a hundred little pie slices

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or parts so yeah earnings per share equals earnings per slice o pie or wait

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lemonade pie has that been done yet time for a new business venture what do you [A plate of lemonade pie appears]

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think we're taking investors just call us please

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