An equity investor 1 purchases shares in a publicly listed company. In return, the investor usually receives dividend payments from the company. And, the share price of the company hopefully rises over time as a result of the company's increase in earnings. The simple analysis here expresses the investor's change in relative monetary net worth as a function of the company's dividend yield, its earnings per share, and its price-per-unit-earnings ratio.

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