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Stock Price
Earnings Per Share
Dividends
Good Dividend Policy
Emergency Loan Penalties
Stock Price Calculation
Earnings Per Share

Earnings per share (EPS) looks at the wealth that is being created on each share of stock. It is a somewhat useful predictor of future earnings. The EPS will either wind up in the stockholders hands directly as a dividend, or it will be retained and used to enhance the wealth creation capabilities of the company. Therefore, one school of thought says that a stock price should reflect the present value of a future EPS stream, and if we can somehow predict that stream we can predict the stock price.