Next, 336,620,000 shares were held in the company's treasury at that time, so subtracting this from the number of issued shares means that Johnson & Johnson had 2,783,223,000 outstanding shares at ...

With this weighted average, we can now calculate a different and more accurate EPS of $0.80 per share. Bear in mind that this is a simplified example, and a company's number of outstanding shares ...

Let's say that a company earned $100,000 this year and wants to calculate its earnings per share. At the beginning of the year, the company has 100,000 shares outstanding but issues an additional ...

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