Knowledgeable stock market particip...

Knowledgeable stock market participants agree that-over the longer term-the rate of pullulation in a stock's price is 'driven' by the agency of the rate of growth in its earnings by share ("EPS") or cash run per share ("CFPS").

The Table below contains charts of the historical vegetation in EPS or CFPS for all of the Shareowner DRP securities. While the obliquity of each line provides a visual impression of putting out the numbers in the brackets for each security are the calculated, amalgamate growth rates for as many as 10 years and for the last five years, respectively. The data are before similar one-time effects as restructuring splendors gains from the occasional sale of investments, cumulative accounting adjustments, etc

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