Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Earnings Per Share

In November 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program to acquire up to 3.0 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock. In November 2011, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized an additional share repurchase program to acquire up to 1.3 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock plus an additional amount of common stock to offset dilution resulting from grants under the Company’s equity compensation plans. During the six-month period ended June 30, 2012, the Company repurchased 1.8 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock at a total cost of $114.0 million. These repurchases exhausted the availability under the share repurchase programs announced in November 2008 and November 2011.

In May 2012, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized an additional share repurchase program to acquire up to 1.6 million shares of the Company’s outstanding common stock plus an additional amount of common shares to offset dilution resulting from grants under the Company’s equity compensation plans. As of September 30, 2012, there were 1.6 million shares available for repurchase under this program.

All common stock acquired under repurchase programs will be held as treasury stock and will be available for general corporate purposes.

The following table details the calculation of basic and diluted earnings per common share and antidilutive equity-based awards outstanding not included in the computation of diluted earnings per common share for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 (shares in thousands):


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012		2011		2012		2011
Net income attributable to Gardner Denver	$	64,103	$	73,583	$	194,202	$	200,182
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding:
Basic		49,038		51,601		49,752		52,028
Effect of stock-based compensation awards		193		367		237		400

Diluted		49,231		51,968		49,989		52,428

Earnings Per Share:
Basic	$	1.31	$	1.43	$	3.90	$	3.85

Diluted	$	1.30	$	1.42	$	3.88	$	3.82

Antidilutive equity-based awards outstanding		331		142		324		116

On April 20, 2011, the Company announced that it had reached an agreement with the minority shareholders of its two joint ventures in China, Shanghai CompAir Compressor Co. Ltd. and Shanghai CompAir-Dalong High Pressure Equipment Co. Ltd., to acquire all of their equity interests in these entities, representing 49 percent and 40 percent of the two entities, respectively. The purchase price of RMB 122.0 million ($18.8 million based on exchange rates at the date of payment) was placed by the Company into escrow with the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange during the second quarter of 2011 pending finalization of certain Chinese governmental approvals. Requisite governmental approvals were received and transfer of the equity interests to the Company was completed during the third quarter of 2011. The share purchase was accounted for by the Company as an equity transaction. The cash payment was classified as a cash flow from financing activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. The excess of the cash exchanged for the shares and the carrying value of the non-controlling interests was recorded as a charge to capital in excess of par value on the consolidated balance sheet and resulted in an $8.8 million reduction in stockholders’ equity attributable to Gardner Denver. The non-controlling interests associated with these two joint ventures were eliminated from the consolidated statements of operations and balance sheet as of the closing date.