Earnings per Share

9 Months Ended

Jan. 24, 2015

Earnings per Share

Earnings per Share

Note 14: Earnings per Share

Certain share-based compensation awards that entitle their holders to receive non-forfeitable dividends prior to vesting are considered participating securities. We grant restricted stock awards that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends on unvested shares, and we are required to include these participating securities in calculating our basic earnings per common share, using the two-class method.

The following is a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators we used in our computations of basic and diluted earnings per share:

	Quarter Ended						Nine Months Ended
(Unaudited, amounts in thousands)	1/24/15			1/25/14			1/24/15			1/25/14
Numerator (basic and diluted):
Net income attributable to La-Z-Boy Incorporated	$	17,948		$	16,483		$	50,558		$	42,817
Income allocated to participating securities	(97		)	(100		)	(283		)	(354		)
Net income available to common shareholders	$	17,851		$	16,383		$	50,275		$	42,463
Denominator:
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding	51,576			52,516			52,015			52,465
Add:
Contingent common shares	210			361			223			501
Stock option dilution	353			349			302			413
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding	52,139			53,226			52,540			53,379

The above values for contingent common shares reflect the dilutive effect of common shares that we would have issued to employees under the terms of performance-based share awards if the relevant performance period for the award had been the reporting period.

For the nine months ended January 24, 2015, we had outstanding options to purchase 0.4 million shares with a weighted average exercise price of $23.63. We excluded the effect of these options from our diluted share calculation since, for that period, the weighted average exercise price of the options was higher than the average market price, and including the options’ effect would have been anti-dilutive. We did not exclude any outstanding options from the diluted share calculation for the quarter ended January 24, 2015, or the quarter and nine months ended January 25, 2014.