Earnings per share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 26, 2020

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 26, 2020		September 28, 2019	September 26, 2020	September 28, 2019
Net earnings attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	205,117	155,518	267,374	479,544
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	71,197		72,106	71,190	72,302
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	181		286	172	276
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	71,378		72,392	71,362	72,578
Earnings per share attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	2.88	2.16	3.76	6.63
Diluted	$	2.87	2.15	3.75	6.61