ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Gross Margin, Current Liability, Accounts Receivable

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Common stockholders focus on ratios that indicate profitability and dividends payout: earnings per share, gross margin percentage, price-earnings ratio, dividend payout ratio, dividend yield ratio, return on total assets, return on common stockholders" equity, book value per share. Earnings per share (eps) refers to the earnings that are available to the owners of common stock after preferred dividends have been paid. To compute molin company"s eps, first determine the average common shares that were outstanding during the year. To do this, we examine how many shares were outstanding at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year. In this case, this can be determined by looking at the balance sheets. The relation between the market price of a share of stock and the stock"s current earnings per share is often stated in terms of a price-earnings ratio.

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