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value: 1.50 points

On December 31, 2015, Ainsworth, Inc., had 650 million shares of common stock outstanding. Thirty five million shares of 8%, $100 par value cumulative, nonconvertible preferred stock were sold on January 2, 2016. On April 30, 2016, Ainsworth purchased 50 million shares of its common stock as treasury stock. Twenty million treasury shares were sold on August 31. Ainsworth issued a 4% common stock dividend on June 12, 2016. No cash dividends were declared in 2016. For the year ended December 31, 2016, Ainsworth reported a net loss of $215 million, including an after-tax loss from discontinued operations of $550 million.

Compute the per share amount of income or loss from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2016. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places. Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)