yahoo likely made a math error -- dividing by 2 instead of multiplying by 2 to get common shares. A bit ago, the sites had XIN missing earnings, when in fact they healthily beat earnings -- the mistake was due to a similar math error. Tracing it back, most of the sites get the data from Thomson Reuters. They get it from the company. So, if one analyst at TR makes a msitake, the mistake propagates to the retail investment sites.