Question

Sheridan company had 303000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding at december 31, 2017. no common stock was issued during 2018. on january 1, 2018, sheridan issued 195000 shares of nonconvertible preferred stock. during 2018, sheridan declared and paid $103000 cash dividends on the common stock and $84000 on the preferred stock. net income for the year ended december 31, 2018 was $611000. what should be sheridan's 2018 earnings per common share? (rounded to the nearest penny)

Answer 1

EPS is Net Income attributed to shareholders divided by no. of shares outstanding. The dividend on preferred stock is subtracted from net income before calculating earnings per share (EPS). Following is the formula for Earnings per share

EPS = (Net Income – Preferred Dividend)/ No. of common stocks outstanding

= ($611,000 - $84,000)/ 303,000

= $1.74

Therefore, earnings per share would be $1.74.