Earnings Per Share and Dividends

3 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2018

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share and Dividends

Basic and diluted weighted-average shares outstanding are as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	December 29, 2018	December 30, 2017
Basic weighted-average shares outstanding	34,815,255	35,772,406
Dilutive effect of equity-based awards	310,574	428,648
Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding	35,125,829	36,201,054

For the three months ended December 29, 2018 and December 30, 2017, there were 44,465 and 13,530 common shares from equity-based awards, respectively, excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as they would be anti-dilutive.

We declared and paid cash dividends of $0.25 per share on our Class A and Class B common stock in the first quarter of 2019.