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Earnings per Share
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Earnings per Share  
Earnings per Share

 

3.Earnings per Share

 

Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 260, Earnings per Share, requires companies to treat unvested share-based payment awards that have non-forfeitable rights to dividend or dividend equivalents as a separate class of securities in calculating earnings per share.  We have granted and expect to continue to grant to employees restricted stock grants that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends.  Such grants are considered participating securities under ASC 260.  As such, we are required to include these grants in the calculation of our basic earnings per share and calculate basic earnings per share using the two-class method. The two-class method of computing earnings per share is an earnings allocation formula that determines earnings per share for each class of common stock and participating security according to dividends declared (or accumulated) and participation rights in undistributed earnings.

 

Basic earnings per share is computed utilizing the two-class method and is calculated based on the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented.

 

Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common and common equivalent shares outstanding during the periods utilizing the two-class method for stock options and nonvested restricted stock.

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations

 

$

203,057

 

$

173,182

 

Loss from discontinued operations

 

(15

)

 

Net income

 

203,042

 

173,182

 

Adjustment for basic earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings allocated to unvested shareholders

 

(1,255

)

(992

)

Numerator for basic earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

From continuing operations

 

201,802

 

172,190

 

From discontinued operations

 

(15

)

 

 

 

201,787

 

172,190

 

Adjustment for diluted earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of reallocating undistributed earnings of unvested shareholders

 

6

 

7

 

Numerator for diluted earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

From continuing operations

 

201,808

 

172,197

 

From discontinued operations

 

(15

)

 

 

 

$

201,793

 

$

172,197

 

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator for basic earnings per share — weighted-average shares

 

107,973

 

107,149

 

Effect of dilutive shares from stock options and restricted stock

 

870

 

1,428

 

Denominator for diluted earnings per share — adjusted weighted-average shares

 

108,843

 

108,577

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic earnings per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations

 

$

1.87

 

$

1.61

 

Income from discontinued operations

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

1.87

 

$

1.61

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diluted earnings per common share:

 

 

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations

 

$

1.85

 

$

1.59

 

Income from discontinued operations

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

1.85

 

$

1.59

 

 

The following shares attributable to outstanding equity awards were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share because their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

 

 

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares excluded from calculation of diluted earnings per share

 

669 

 

261 

 

Weighted-average price per share

 

$

72.87 

 

$

79.67