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&lt;div style="margin-top: 12pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6: EARNINGS PER SHARE &amp;#8212; CMS ENERGY&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;The following table presents CMS Energy's basic and diluted EPS computations based on Income from Continuing Operations: &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;td style="border-bottom: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="9" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;In Millions, Except Per Share Amounts&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;Three months ended September 30&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;2010&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;2009&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Income Available to Common Stockholders&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Income from Continuing Operations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;146&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;76&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;(1&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(6&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Charge for Deferred Issuance Costs on Preferred Stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(8&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Preferred Stock Dividends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(3&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(2&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Income from Continuing Operations Available to Common Stockholders &amp;#8212; Basic and Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;134&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;68&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Common Shares Outstanding&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Weighted Average Shares &amp;#8212; Basic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;229.0&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;227.3&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Add dilutive Contingently Convertible Securities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;24.9&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;11.1&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Add dilutive Convertible Debentures&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.6&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Add dilutive Non-vested Stock Awards, Options, and Warrants&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.2&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.1&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="7" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Weighted Average Shares &amp;#8212; Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;254.7&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;238.5&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Income from Continuing Operations per Average Common Share Available to Common Stockholders&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Basic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.58&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.30&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.53&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.29&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="5%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="5%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr style="font-size: 8pt;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;Nine months ended September 30&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;2010&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" align="right"&gt;2009&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Income Available to Common Stockholders&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Income from Continuing Operations&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;335&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;206&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="background: #cceeff;" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(3&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(9&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Charge for Deferred Issuance Costs on Preferred Stock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(8&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Less Preferred Stock Dividends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(8&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;(8&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="font-size: 1px;"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-top: #000000 1px solid;" colspan="7" nowrap="nowrap" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Income from Continuing Operations Available to Common Stockholders &amp;#8212; Basic and Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;316&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;189&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Average Common Shares Outstanding&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Weighted Average Shares &amp;#8212; Basic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;228.4&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;227.0&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Add dilutive Contingently Convertible Securities&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;21.3&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;8.6&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Add dilutive Non-vested Stock Awards, Options, and Warrants&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.1&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.1&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Weighted Average Shares &amp;#8212; Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="right"&gt;249.8&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;235.7&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Income from Continuing Operations per Average Common Share Available to Common Stockholders&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Basic&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.38&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.83&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-indent: -15px; margin-left: 30px;"&gt;Diluted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;1.26&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="left"&gt;$&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;0.80&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contingently Convertible Securities: &lt;/b&gt;When CMS Energy has earnings from continuing operations, its contingently convertible securities dilute EPS to the extent that the conversion value of a security, which is based on the average market price of CMS Energy's common stock, exceeds the principal value of that security. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;In September&amp;nbsp;2010, CMS Energy exercised its mandatory conversion rights for all of its outstanding 4.50&amp;nbsp;percent cumulative convertible preferred stock and charged unamortized issuance costs of $8 million to Charge for Deferred Issuance Costs on Preferred Stock, in Accumulated Deficit, which reduced Net Income Available to Common Stockholders, on its Consolidated Statements of Income. In October&amp;nbsp;2010, CMS Energy issued 11,276,277 shares of its common stock upon conversion. For additional details on contingently convertible securities, see Note 5, Financings. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stock Options and Warrants: &lt;/b&gt;For each of the three and nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2010, outstanding options to purchase 0.4&amp;nbsp;million shares of CMS Energy common stock had no impact on diluted EPS, since the exercise price was greater than the average market price of CMS Energy common stock. These stock options have the potential to dilute EPS in the future. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Non-vested Stock Awards: &lt;/b&gt;CMS Energy's non-vested stock awards are composed of participating and non-participating securities. The participating securities accrue cash dividends when common stockholders receive dividends. Since the recipient is not required to return the dividends to CMS Energy if the recipient forfeits the award, the non-vested stock awards are considered participating securities. As such, the participating non-vested stock awards were included in the computation of basic EPS. The non-participating securities accrue stock dividends that vest concurrently with the stock award. If the recipient forfeits the award, the stock dividends accrued on the non-participating securities are also forfeited. Accordingly, the non-participating awards and stock dividends were included in the computation of diluted EPS, but not basic EPS.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Convertible Debentures: &lt;/b&gt;For the nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2010 and for each of the three and nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2009, there was no impact on diluted EPS from CMS Energy's 7.75 percent convertible subordinated debentures. Using the if-converted method, the debentures would have: &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;increased the numerator of diluted EPS by less than $1&amp;nbsp;million for the three months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2009, from an assumed reduction of interest expense, net of tax;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;increased the denominator of diluted EPS by 0.7&amp;nbsp;million shares for the three months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2009;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;increased the numerator of diluted EPS by $1&amp;nbsp;million for the nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2010, and by $4&amp;nbsp;million for the nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2009, from an assumed reduction of interest expense, net of tax; and&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;increased the denominator of diluted EPS by 0.7&amp;nbsp;million shares for the nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2010, and by 3.0&amp;nbsp;million shares for the nine months ended September&amp;nbsp;30, 2009.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 6pt; font-size: 10pt;" align="left"&gt;CMS Energy can revoke the conversion rights if certain conditions are met. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</NonNumbericText>
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