Dividends and Earnings Per Share |
9 Months Ended |
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Jul. 31, 2025 | |
Dividends and Earnings Per Share [Abstract] | |
Dividends and earnings per share | Note 3 – Dividends and earnings per share:
The FREIT Board of Directors (“Board”) declared a dividend of approximately $748,000 ($0.10 per share) in the third quarter of Fiscal 2025, which will be paid on September 12, 2025 to stockholders of record on August 29, 2025.
Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income attributable to common equity (numerator) by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during each period (denominator). The calculation of diluted earnings per share is similar to that of basic earnings per share, except that the denominator is increased to include the number of additional shares that would have been outstanding if all potentially dilutive shares, such as those issuable upon the exercise of stock options, were issued during the period using the Treasury Stock method. Under the Treasury Stock method, the assumption is that the proceeds received upon exercise of the options, including the unrecognized stock option compensation expense attributable to future services, are used to repurchase FREIT’s stock at the average market price during the period, thereby increasing the number of shares to be added in computing diluted earnings per share.
For the nine and three months ended July 31, 2025, only basic earnings per share is presented since there are no outstanding stock options or other diluted securities. For the nine and three months ended July 31, 2024, the outstanding stock options increased the average dilutive shares outstanding by approximately 3,000 and 4,000 shares, respectively, with no impact on earnings per share. There were no anti-dilutive shares for the nine and three months ended July 31, 2024. Anti-dilutive shares consisted of out-of-the money stock options under the Equity Incentive Plan (See Note 12). |