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 achieving an A+ credit rating utilize a portion of cash flows from operations to repurchase shares of common stock on a regular basis to help grow EPS. pay out at least 80% to 90% of its net profits each year in the form of dividends to shareholders. 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