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The value of shareholder wealth in the petroleum industry is not dependent on the relationship between actual dividends or earnings growth. There does not appear to be a positive relationship between stock prices, earnings, and dividend growth for the sample set in this paper used to represent the petroleum producing industry. The companies in this industry appear to have expectable growth strategies and are preparing for long-term profitability.

Born and raised in Richardson, Texas, Stephanie Lewis is a rising senior currently attending Fisk University. After changing schools three times post-high school graduation in 2004, she finally found her home at one of the prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Upon acceptance to the McNair program at Fisk, she began to aspire to attaining a Master"s in nursing and a Ph.D. in marriage and family counseling. Stephanie"s research interests include physical, sexual, and verbal abuse among African American youth, rape and severe trauma coping strategies, understanding the media"s effect of social gender roles and language, holistic health, and the changing conceptualization of motherhood. Her college years have included playing collegiate basketball and volleyball, involvement with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) as well as acceptance into the Phi Theta Kappa (National Junior College Honor Society), and multiple Dean"s Lists.

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