Meade Instruments (FRA:ME1N) Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) : 1.17 Mil (As of May. 2013)

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What is Meade Instruments Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)?

Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. Meade Instruments's average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter that ended in May. 2013 was 1.17 Mil.

Meade Instruments Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Meade Instruments's Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) can be seen below:

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Meade Instruments Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Calculation

Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. They have voting rights and represent ownership in the corporation by the person that holds the shares. They should be distinguished from treasury shares, which are shares held by the corporation itself, having no exercisable rights.

Shares outstanding can be calculated as either basic or fully diluted. The fully diluted shares outstanding count includes diluting securities, such as options, warrants or convertibles.

Please note: GuruFocus named Shares Outstanding (EOP) is the shares for that exact time point. It is usually used to calculate balance sheet related items, such as Book Value per Share, etc. While Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) and Shares Outstanding (Basic Average) are the weighted average shares over a period of time (a year, a quarter, or so). They are usually used to calculate income statement or cashflow statement related items, such as Earnings per Share (Diluted), etc.

Meade Instruments (FRA:ME1N) Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) Explanation

A company may buy back shares or issue shares in any fiscal period. If a company buys back shares, we should observe that the total number of shares decline. If the company issues new shares, the number of shares outstanding increases.

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Usually the presence of treasury shares and a history of buyback are good indicators that company has competitive advantage. But studies have shown that companies usually buy back at wrong time. Buying back shares below its intrinsic value increases value for remaining shareholders. Buying back overvalued shares destroys value for existing shareholders.

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Meade Instruments Corporation is a Delaware Corporation. The Company is a consumer products company that designs, manufactures, imports and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars, spotting scopes, and other consumer optical products.. The Company's brands include Meade and Coronado. They are associated with the amateur astronomy, consumer optical and sporting goods markets. Products such as the LX200 series of telescopes that combine the state-of-the-art LX200 with the precision of Advanced Coma Free (ACF) optics; the LX90GPS that brings GPS capabilities to a moderately priced Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; LS, the newest addition of fully computerized telescopes using 'Lightswitch' technology, which provides a revolutionary self-alignment routine, allowing users with no astronomy experience to enjoy a multi-media guided-tour of the night sky; also, the new LT series, which is its value platform, using the same high-quality mechanics of the LS, but the Deep Sky Imager series of high-performance charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras that have advanced astro-imaging to near point-and-shoot simplicity,. It competes in the United States and Canada with SW Technology Corporation, and Bushnell Performance Optics, Inc., and to a lesser extent, with other smaller companies which service niche markets.

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