Net Income Per Share

12 Months Ended

Aug. 28, 2021

4. NET INCOME PER SHARE

In prior periods, the Company’s non-vested restricted stock awards contained non-forfeitable rights to dividends and met the criteria of a participating security as defined by ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share.” Under the two-class method, net income per share is computed by dividing net income allocated to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. In applying the two-class method, net income is allocated to both common shares and participating securities based on their respective weighted-average shares outstanding for the period. The presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share is required only for each class of common stock and not for participating securities with respect to prior periods. As such, the Company presents basic and diluted earnings per share for its common stock. The dilutive effect of participating securities for prior periods is calculated using the more dilutive of the treasury stock or the two-class method. For fiscal year 2019, the Company determined the two-class method to be the more dilutive. As such, the earnings allocated to common stock shareholders in the basic earnings per share calculation was adjusted for the reallocation of undistributed earnings to participating securities to arrive at the earnings allocated to common stock shareholders for calculating the diluted earnings per share. For fiscal years 2021 and 2020, the Company used the treasury stock method, as the Company discontinued its grants of these participating securities in fiscal year 2015 and the remaining restricted stock awards vested in March 2020.

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The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income per common share under the treasury stock method for fiscal years 2021 and 2020 and under the two-class method for fiscal year 2019:



	For the Fiscal Years Ended
	August 28,		August 29,		August 31,
	2021		2020		2019
	(52 weeks)		(52 weeks)		(52 weeks)

Numerator:
Net income attributable to MSC Industrial as reported	$	216,907	$	251,117	$	288,865
Less: Distributed net income available to participating securities		—		—		(45)
Less: Undistributed net income available to participating securities		—		—		(75)

Numerator for basic net income per share:
Undistributed and distributed net income available to common shareholders	$	216,907	$	251,117	$	288,745
Add: Undistributed net income allocated to participating securities		—		—		75
Less: Undistributed net income reallocated to participating securities		—		—		(75)

Numerator for diluted net income per share:
Undistributed and distributed net income available to common shareholders	$	216,907	$	251,117	$	288,745

Denominator:
Weighted-average shares outstanding for basic net income per share		55,737		55,472		55,245
Effect of dilutive securities		356		171		263
Weighted-average shares outstanding for diluted net income per share		56,093		55,643		55,508
Net income per share:
Basic	$	3.89	$	4.53	$	5.23
Diluted	$	3.87	$	4.51	$	5.20

Potentially dilutive securities		314		1,393		1,080

Potentially dilutive securities attributable to outstanding stock options and restricted stock units are excluded from the calculation of diluted net income per share when the combined exercise price and average unamortized fair value are greater than the average market price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, and therefore their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.