Earnings per share (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jul. 04, 2015

A reconciliation of earnings from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc. and weighted average common shares outstanding for purposes of calculating basic and diluted earnings per share is as follows:



	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	July 4, 2015			June 28, 2014	July 4, 2015		June 28, 2014
Earnings from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	186,492		152,750	208,838		233,831
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest ^(a)	(160		)	—	(160	)	—
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	186,332		152,750	208,678		233,831

Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	73,264			72,832	73,123		72,788
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	492			465	521		514
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	73,756			73,297	73,644		73,302

Earnings per share from continuing operations attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	2.54		2.10	2.85		3.21
Diluted	$	2.53		2.08	2.83		3.19

(a) Represents the accretion of the Company's redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemption value. See Note 2, Acquisitions for further information.