If a management team wishes to undertake efforts specifically aimed at helping the company meet or beat the investor-expected increases in the company's stock price in upcoming years, then it should pursue actions to increase the company's current ratio and thereby provide a very big boost to quickly acnieving an A+ credit rating. raise enough cash to finance needed capital investments in workstation space, workstations, and possibly robotics upgrades by issuing additional shares of stock to; this will improve the company's profitability and stock price in the long run. build the company's brand reputation; a strong, widely-known brand reputation is the biggest factor that drives the company's stock price upward. pay out at least 80% to 90% of its net profits each year in the form of dividends to shareholders. utilize a portion of cash flows from operations to repurchase shares of common stock on a regular basis to help grow EPS