diluted shares

To measure it, multiply the current stock price by the fully diluted shares outstanding.

Then divide this number by the number of fully diluted shares outstanding.

Earnings for diluted shares increased to 95 cents for the quarter, up from 53 cents last year.

News Corporation currently owns 20 million of New World's 112 million fully diluted shares outstanding.

The fully diluted shares outstanding count, on the other hand, includes diluting securities, such as warrants, capital notes or convertibles.

The purchase price of $87 billion is based on 883 million fully diluted shares outstanding, according to Warner-Lambert's most recent financial report.

Fewer than 10,000 shares of Nasdaq trade on a typical day, or less than 0.00013 percent of the company's 78.6 million fully diluted shares.

Shareholders of Voice Processing, based in Cambridge, Mass., will own about 30 percent of the combined company's fully diluted shares after the transaction.

Under Gannett's offer, Newsquest shareholders would receive 460 pence ($7.31) in cash for each of 200.4 million fully diluted shares.

Heavy Institutional Holdings Up to 60 percent of Centel's 89 million fully diluted shares are owned by a few score of big institutional shareholders.

Based on Pfizer's closing share price of $35.75 on Friday, that puts the value of the deal for Warner-Lambert's 918.2 million fully diluted shares at $90.27 billion.

Antitrust Factors Under the terms of the agreement, Martin Marietta will begin a cash tender offer today for all but not less than two-thirds of Grumman's fully diluted shares.

Its book value, or net assets divided by diluted shares, is about $16.60 a share, according to Margaret B. Whitfield, an analyst at Brean Murray & Company in New York.

As part of the deal, expected to be completed near the end of the year, USWeb will exchange 1.5 shares for each of CKS's 15.9 million diluted shares outstanding in a pooling of interests.

The annual sales per share should be calculated by taking the net sales for the last four quarters divided by the fully diluted shares outstanding (both of these figures can be found by looking at the press releases or quarterly reports).

Under the terms of the transaction, G.E. will pay 1.055 shares for each of Honeywell's roughly 817 million fully diluted shares, valuing each Honeywell share at $55.39, or about 17 percent more than its Friday closing price of $47.

Diluted shares: To calculate the total number of shares used in the calculation, FASB prescribes using the treasury method to calculate the dilutive effect of any instruments that could result in the issuance of shares, including: