Investors tend to focus on the bottom line when conducting financial analyses. Thus far, you have calculated earnings per share (EPS) as the net income available to common shareholders divided by the number of common shares outstanding. However, when firms use a lot of hybrid securities, their earnings can be distorted. As a result, a few different methods exist for reporting EPS. Read the following statement, which describes one of these reporting methods: Earnings available to common shareholders are divided by the average number of shares actually outstanding during the accounting period. Identify which of the reporting methods this statement describes: Primary EPS Diluted EPS Basic EPS