Not very stock-savvy, can someone simply explain the implications of dividends/EPS? I have 47 shares, for example.

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OP, I think D1 is asking what company the stock is in

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If you don't know anything just invest in the vanguard total market index fund and walk away

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Jesus you guys are making this confusing. All you need to worry about is consistently reinvesting the dividend (money company gives back to you as a thanks for investing with them in simplest terms) to keep growing your money (acn automatically does this). Our dividend is right around 2%, which means the company gives you 2% back on the stock price. Very basic example, if you have 1 share at $100 you would get a $2 check from ACN. In our case Morgan Stanley takes that $2 and auto buys (in this fictional example) .02 of another share. So now you have 1.02 shares.

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Do you mean Accenture stock? You can have shares of almost any public company's stock. Some companies (small and fast growing companies) don't give dividends since they want to reinvest everything into the company. Other companies (large, established companies) give dividends to maintain a loyal stockholder base

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Oh ACN stock, sorry. Should've been more clear!

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They won't be returning 100% of that EPS to shareholders, though (they'd be devaluing the company if they did). Most companies have a dividend yield in the 1-4% range.

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Shares of what? EPS= a company's net profit/# overall shares... Dividend is profit that is not reinvested into the form but instead given to shareholders. They divide they up between all the shares and you get a share of the dividend

Shares of...stock? Valued at $121.64 a piece right now.

Thank you for the explanation D1, makes sense. I'm probably only looking at around $50 in dividends because I heard this is around a $1.30 EPS

OP - Shareholders get "one dividend unit" for every share they own. Our dividend is $1.21, so you will get 47*$1.21 = $56.87

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