The market is a voting machine in the short term, but a weighing machine in the long term, so you'd expect share price to follow earnings per share (EPS) outcomes eventually. So it makes sense that experienced investors pay close attention to company EPS when undertaking investment research. We can see that in the last three years Tootsie Roll Industries grew its EPS by 9.6% per year. That growth rate is fairly good, assuming the company can keep it up.