Earnings Per Share

3 Months Ended

Dec. 27, 2015

Earnings per Share

As discussed in Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, on April 9, 2015, we effected a two-for-one stock split of our $0.001 par value common stock for shareholders of record as of March 30, 2015. All share and per-share data presented in this note has been retroactively adjusted to reflect this stock split.

Calculation of net earnings per common share (“EPS”) — basic and diluted (in millions, except EPS):



	Quarter Ended
	Dec 27, 2015		Dec 28, 2014
Net earnings attributable to Starbucks	$	687.6	$	983.1
Weighted average common shares outstanding (for basic calculation)	1,485.9		1,498.8
Dilutive effect of outstanding common stock options and RSUs	17.4		18.0
Weighted average common and common equivalent shares outstanding (for diluted calculation)	1,503.3		1,516.8
EPS — basic	$	0.46	$	0.66
EPS — diluted	$	0.46	$	0.65

Potential dilutive shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options (both vested and nonvested) and nonvested RSUs, calculated using the treasury stock method. The calculation of dilutive shares outstanding excludes out-of-the-money stock options (i.e., such options’ exercise prices were greater than the average market price of our common shares for the period) because their inclusion would have been antidilutive. Out-of-the-money stock options totaled approximately 2.4 million and 7.8 million as of December 27, 2015 and December 28, 2014, respectively.