2021-6-4 · MerBod, however, compensates its employees and suppliers with 80,000 in cash and 2,000 shares of stock, at an average market price of 5 per share. The cost to each company is the same: 90,000. But their net income and EPS numbers are very different. KapCorps net income before taxes is 10,000, or 1.25 per share.