Earnings Per Share

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share

Earnings Per Share ("EPS")

There are no adjustments required to be made to net income for purposes of computing EPS. The average number of common shares outstanding is reconciled to those used in the basic and diluted EPS computations as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30		Nine Months Ended September 30
(Millions of shares)	2019	2018	2019	2018
Basic	343.8	347.2	344.1	348.8
Dilutive effect of stock options and restricted share unit awards	2.1	1.6	1.9	1.6
Diluted	345.9	348.8	346.0	350.4

The impact of options outstanding that were not included in the computation of diluted EPS because their exercise price was greater than the average market price of the common shares was insignificant. The number of common shares outstanding as of September 30, 2019 and 2018 was 343.1 million and 346.6 million, respectively.