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Reverse split your stock 2 for 1 ... EPS doubles.

Finance professor pointed this out to me decades ago to show that EPS alone means nothing.

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name one exec who'd cash in if he boosted the EPS by buying back all but a couple shares while earnings fell by 90%.

Reverse split your stock 2 for 1 ... EPS doubles.

Let's take that to mean you know of no CEO that gets extra for masking falling earnings with buybacks.   We can also just agree that the same applies with stock splits.