Earnings per Share (EPS) of a business are the portion of its net income of a period that can be attributed to each share of its common stock. Earnings per share can be calculated by dividing net income of a period by the number of common shares outstanding during the period. Companies are required to show EPS with their income statement.

While comparing the profitability of stocks, their prices and the total earnings of the respective companies do not help because we need to compare apples to apples. Therefore we calculate the earnings per share of the stocks. But EPS still is not much helpful if compared directly. It is used to calculate the price/earnings ratio of a stock which is directly compared with the price/earnings ratio of other stocks.

Boulder Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BDBD) has the market capitalization of $662.04 million and its EPS growth ratio for the past five years was 28.80%. The return on assets ratio of the Company was -16.50% while its return on investment ratio was 5.50%. Price to sales ratio was 1.29 while 98.00% of stock was owned by Institutional investors. The Company earned -$123.90 million in prior twelve months.

Emerald Oil Inc (NYSEMKT:EOX) has market capitalization of $171.88 million. The Company has 66.62 million shares outstanding while EPS in next five years is expected to reach 40.00% while EPS growth in past 5 year was 28.80%. The Company’s price to sale ratio was 1.71 while price to book ratio was 0.49.

Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. (ADR) (NASDAQ:GGAL) offered 28.70% EPS for prior five years. The company has 107.30% return on equity value while its ROI ratio was 21.00%. The company has $2.15 billion market capitalizations and the institutional ownership was 17.10%. Its price to book ratio was 1.91. Volatility of the stock was 3.89% for the week while for the month booked as 4.60%.

Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ:GNTX) has market capitalization of $5.12 billion while its P/E ratio was 17.84. The company has the institutional ownership of 84.40% while the Beta factor, which is used riskiness of the security, was 1.22. The company’s EPS growth in prior 5 years was 28.60%. In the liquidity ratio analysis; current ratio was 5.60 while debt to equity ratio was 0.17.

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