Earnings per Share

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

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 income is 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 earnings per share computations for the periods presented below.


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Six Months Ended March 31,
(in millions, except share amounts)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Numerator:
Net income	$	55.3	$	39.3	$	74.8	$	55.6
Less: Allocation to participating securities	(1.7)		(0.9)		(2.2)		(1.2)
Net income allocated to common stockholders	$	53.6	$	38.4	$	72.6	$	54.4






Denominator:
Weighted average number of:
Common shares outstanding	19,112,216		18,872,937		19,025,604		18,811,268
Dilutive potential common shares outstanding:
Share-based awards	558,323		317,016		544,424		321,229
Diluted weighted-average common shares	19,670,539		19,189,953		19,570,028		19,132,497

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 212,892 and 945,211 shares of common stock for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and options to purchase 106,368 and 981,088 shares of common stock for the six months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as they would have been anti-dilutive.