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how to accurately calculate apple's eps
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on closer look, it appears that google finance relies on the last released 10-k statement (filing date 10/30/2013), but outstanding shares as of last 10-q statement. using these forms, you get ($37,037m / 5.989b ) = $6.18 eps. i think this is good to note, as you can manually calculate a more up to date eps value than what the majority of investors out there are relying on.
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