Earnings per Share

The Company presents basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) using the two-class method which requires all outstanding unvested share-based payment awards that contain rights to non-forfeitable dividends and therefore participate in undistributed earnings with common stockholders be included in computing earnings per share. Under the two-class method, net earnings are reduced by the amount of dividends declared in the period for each class of common stock and participating security. The remaining undistributed earnings are then allocated to common stock and participating securities, based on their respective rights to receive dividends. Restricted stock awards granted to certain employees and directors contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends at the same rate as common stock, and are considered participating securities. Basic EPS has been computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding.

The following is a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of the diluted net income per share computations for the periods presented below.



	Year Ended September 30,
(in millions, except share amounts)	2017			2016			2015
Numerator:
Net income	$	6.4		$	54.7		$	55.7
Less: Allocation to participating securities	(0.1		)	(1.0		)	(1.3		)
Net income allocated to common stockholders	$	6.3		$	53.7		$	54.4
Denominator:
Weighted average number of:
Common shares outstanding	18,395,987			18,410,561			18,525,374
Dilutive potential common shares outstanding:
Share-based awards	291,367			214,811			406,861
Diluted shares outstanding	18,687,354			18,625,372			18,932,235

The dilutive effect of share-based awards is reflected in diluted net income per share by application of the treasury stock method, which includes consideration of unamortized share-based compensation expense.

Options to purchase 230,135, 910,060 and 997,459 shares of common stock for fiscal years ended September 30, 2017, 2016, and 2015, respectively, were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share because they would have been anti-dilutive.