Retained Earnings Total Shareholders' Equity $150,000 $450,000 If the company issued a 6% stock dividend during the year, what would total shareholders' eq issued? uity be after the dividend was 4. At the beginning of 2016 a company had 7,000 shares of common stock outstanding. On August 1, 2016, the company issued another 2,000 shares of common stock. On December 1, 2016 the company issued a 2-for-1 stock split. What quantity of common shares would be used in the 2016 Basic Earnings Per Share calculation