Earnings Per Share and Dividends

12 Months Ended

Oct. 03, 2020

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share and Dividends

Earnings per Share and Dividends

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

	2020	2019	2018
Basic weighted-average shares outstanding	33,257,684	34,854,614	35,661,638
Dilutive effect of equity-based awards	180,117	324,354	390,669
Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding	33,437,801	35,178,968	36,052,307

There were 136,323, 29,971 and 22,332 common shares from equity-based compensation in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as they would be anti-dilutive.

We declared and paid cash dividends of $0.75, $1.00, $0.50 per share in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.