Earnings Per Share

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

8. Earnings Per Share

The following is a reconciliation of the shares used to compute basic and diluted earnings per share (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2017	2016
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding used to compute basic earnings per share	52,658	53,147
Dilutive effect of stock-based awards	591	497
Number of shares used to compute diluted earnings per share	53,249	53,644

During the three months ended March 31, 2017, there were no significant share equivalents that were anti-dilutive when applying the treasury stock method. During the three months ended March 31, 2016, there were 473,000 share equivalents that were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings because they were anti-dilutive when applying the treasury stock method.