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decrease shareholders' equity: Original post by Cynthia Hartman of Demand Media Publicly held corporations face the ongoing challenge of managing their stock's price and the EPS, or earnings per share, they produce. One of the methods employed to accomplish this, a share buyback, helps firms offset internal events that dilute the company's EPS and affect its shareholders' equity. The strategy may also help counteract the…

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