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Ecker Company reports $1,625,000 of net income and declares $227,500 of cash dividends on its preferred stock for the year. At year- end, the company had 390,000 weighted average shares of common stock.
1. What amount of net income is available to common stockholders?
| Net income | ||
| To preferred stockholders | ||
| Net income available to common stockholders | $ | 0 |
2. What is the company's basic EPS?
| Basic Earnings per Share | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choose Numerator: | / | Choose Denominator: | Basic Earnings per Share | |
/ | = | Basic earnings per share | ||
| / | = | |||
| 1 | ||||
| Net income | 1625000 | |||
| To preferred stockholders | 227500 | |||
| Net income available to common stockholders | 1397500 | |||
| 2 | ||||
| Basic Earnings per share | ||||
| Choose Numerator: | / | Choose Denominator: | = | Basic earnings per share |
| Net income available to common stockholders | / | Weighted-average outstanding shares | = | Basic earnings per share |
| 1397500 | / | 390000 | = | 3.58 |