Earnings per share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Oct. 03, 2015

A reconciliation of earnings from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc. and weighted average common shares outstanding for purposes of calculating basic and diluted earnings per share is as follows:



	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	October 3, 2015			September 27, 2014	October 3, 2015		September 27, 2014
Earnings from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	214,905		151,266	423,743		385,097
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest ^(a)	(31		)	—	(191	)	—
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	214,874		151,266	423,552		385,097

Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	73,915			72,864	73,384		72,814
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	523			512	523		518
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	74,438			73,376	73,907		73,332

Earnings per share from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	2.91		2.08	5.77		5.29
Diluted	$	2.89		2.06	5.73		5.25

(a) Represents the accretion of the Company's redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemption value. See Note 2, Acquisitions for further information.