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Earnings for last year were $4.3 million, or $1.84 a common share.

It will be able to buy more than 11.5 million common shares at current prices.

Earlier, the company had set a range of $26 to $31 a share for the 280 million common shares.

Market value figures are based on the price per common share as of March 31, 1995.

That $750 million will be used to buy common shares in the new holding company next year.

Thus a common share can fall only a certain amount in Tokyo.

That is a big reason why the price of the common shares has been falling.

The financing will add more than 300 million common shares.

Its common shares rose $1.25 to close at a record $75.50.

One purchase right will be given for each common share held at the end of business on Sept. 1.