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On December 31, 2017, Berclair Inc. had 520 million shares of common stock and 3 million shares of 9%, $100 par value cumulative preferred stock issued and outstanding. On March 1, 2018, Berclair purchased 24 million shares of its common stock as treasury stock. Berclair issued a 5% common stock dividend on July 1, 2018. Four million treasury shares were sold on October 1. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2018, was $850 million. The income tax rate is 40%.
Also outstanding at December 31 were incentive stock options
granted to key executives on September 13, 2013. The options are
exercisable as of September 13, 2017, for 30 million common shares
at an exercise price of $56 per share. During 2018, the market
price of the common shares averaged $70 per share.
In 2014, $62.5 million of 8% bonds, convertible into 6 million
common shares, were issued at face value.
Required:
Compute Berclair’s basic and diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2018. (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)
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