Earnings per Share (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Earnings per Share

Net income is divided by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period to calculate basic earnings per share. Diluted earnings per share is calculated to give effect to RSUs. The following table summarizes the dilutive effect of RSUs to purchase common stock for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022:


	Three months ended September 30,		Nine months ended September 30,
	2023	2022	2023	2022
Weighted average common shares—basic	41,425,208	41,995,027	41,477,095	42,363,919
Dilutive effect of restricted stock units	248,173	186,413	229,772	226,858

Weighted average common shares—diluted	41,673,381	42,181,440	41,706,867	42,590,777

In March 2020, the Company announced its Board of Directors had authorized the Company to increase the purchase of its common stock up to $250 million in the aggregate. This announcement represented the most recent update from the initial authorization, approved in November 2015, of up to $50 million of purchases in the aggregate of its common stock. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company purchased 10,506 and 462,388 shares of its outstanding common stock for $0.3 million and $13.4 million, respectively. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company purchased 76,167 and 1,004,154 shares of its outstanding common stock for $2.1 million and $30.0 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2023, the Company had $92.3 million remaining under the repurchase authorization.

Holders of common stock are entitled to dividends at the discretion of the Company's Board of Directors. In 2021, the Company's Board of Directors declared the first dividend since the Company's initial public offering in 2007. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company's cash dividends declared were $0.04 per share of common stock and total dividends declared and paid on common shares were $1.7 million and $5.0 million, respectively. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company's cash dividends declared were $0.04 per share of common stock and total dividends declared and paid on common shares were $1.7 million and $5.2 million, respectively.