Earnings Per Share

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share of Common Stock

Earnings Per Share of Common Stock

Set forth below is a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator for basic and diluted earnings per share calculations for the Predecessor periods indicated below:

	Predecessor
	For the Period July 1 - August 31, 2017			Three Months Ended September 30, 2016			For the Period Jan. 1 - August 31, 2017			Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Numerator:
(Loss) income from continuing operations after income taxes attributable to DuPont	(263		)	(70		)	1,624			1,902
Preferred dividends	(2		)	(2		)	(7		)	(7		)
(Loss) income from continuing operations after income taxes available to DuPont common stockholders	$	(265	)	$	(72	)	$	1,617		$	1,895
Income from discontinued operations after income taxes available to DuPont common stockholders	29			72			117			346
Net (loss) income available to common stockholders	$	(236	)	$	—		$	1,734		$	2,241
Denominator:
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding - Basic	868,992,000			874,292,000			867,888,000			874,274,000
Dilutive effect of the company’s employee compensation plans1	—			5,099,000			4,532,000			4,332,000
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding - Diluted1	868,992,000			879,391,000			872,420,000			878,606,000

^1.  Diluted earnings per share considers the impact of potentially dilutive securities except in periods in which there is a loss because the inclusion of the potential common shares would have an anti-dilutive effect.

The following average number of stock options were antidilutive, and therefore not included in the dilutive earnings per share calculations:

	Predecessor
	For the Period July 1 - August 31, 2017	Three Months Ended September 30, 2016	For the Period Jan. 1 - August 31, 2017	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2016
Average number of stock options	4,832,000	4,558,000	1,906	4,885,000