Earnings per share (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of earnings per share

A reconciliation of net earnings available to common stockholders and weighted-average common shares outstanding for purposes of calculating basic and diluted earnings per share is as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2018			April 1, 2017
Net earnings attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	208,766		200,554
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest (a)	(305		)	—
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	208,461		200,554
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	74,453			74,212
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	476			542
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	74,929			74,754
Earnings per share attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	2.80		2.70
Diluted	$	2.78		2.68

(a) Represents the accretion of the Company's redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemptive value. The Company will have the option to call and the holder the option to put this noncontrolling interest on May 12, 2018.