Basic and Diluted Earnings Per Share

12 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2023

ASC 260, Earnings Per Share, requires companies to treat unvested share-based payment awards that have non-forfeitable rights to dividends prior to vesting as a separate class of securities in calculating earnings per share. The Company has granted and expects to continue to grant to certain employees under its restricted stock agreements, grants that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends. Such grants are considered participating securities. Therefore, the Company is required to apply the two-class method in calculating earnings per share. The two-class method of computing earnings per share is an earnings allocation formula that determines earnings per share for each class of common stock and participating security according to dividends declared (or accumulated) and participation rights in undistributed earnings. The dilutive effect of participating securities is calculated using the more dilutive of the treasury method or the two-class method.

Basic earnings per common share was computed using the two-class method by dividing basic net earnings attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted earnings per common share was computed using the two-class method by dividing diluted net earnings attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding plus dilutive common equivalent shares. Dilutive common equivalent shares include all in-the-money outstanding options or other contracts to issue common stock as if they were exercised or converted. Financial instruments that are not in the form of common stock, but when converted into common stock increase earnings per share, are anti-dilutive and are not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share.

During fiscal 2023, 2022 and 2021, restricted stock awards of 1.2 million shares, 1.2 million shares and 1.3 million shares, respectively, were outstanding but not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because they were anti-dilutive.

The following table summarizes basic and diluted earnings per common share attributable to common stockholders:


	Year Ended April 30,
	2023		2022		2021

	(in thousands, except per share data)
Net income attributable to Korn Ferry	$	209,529	$	326,360	$	114,454
Less: distributed and undistributed earnings to nonvested restricted stockholders	4,618		7,343		2,763
Basic net earnings attributable to common stockholders	204,911		319,017		111,691
Add: undistributed earnings to nonvested restricted stockholders	3,912		6,750		2,185
Less: reallocation of undistributed earnings to nonvested restricted stockholders	3,882		6,676		2,165
Diluted net earnings attributable to common stockholders	$	204,941	$	319,091	$	111,711

Weighted-average common shares outstanding:
Basic weighted-average number of common shares outstanding	51,482		52,807		52,928
Effect of dilutive securities:
Restricted stock	384		580		476
ESPP	17		14		1
Diluted weighted-average number of common shares outstanding	51,883		53,401		53,405

Net earnings per common share:
Basic earnings per share	$	3.98	$	6.04	$	2.11
Diluted earnings per share	$	3.95	$	5.98	$	2.09