Earnings per share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2019

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of earnings per share

A reconciliation of net earnings available to common stockholders 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
	September 28, 2019		September 29, 2018		September 28, 2019	September 29, 2018
Net earnings attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	155,518	227,013		479,544	632,365
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest (1)	—		(670	)	—	(975	)
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	155,518	226,343		479,544	631,390
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	72,106		74,603		72,302	74,599
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	286		342		276	378
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	72,392		74,945		72,578	74,977
Earnings per share attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	2.16	3.03		6.63	8.46
Diluted	$	2.15	3.02		6.61	8.42

⁽¹⁾ Represents the accretion of the Company’s redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemptive value. The holder put this option to the Company on December 20, 2018 for $33,884.