Earnings per share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 29, 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					Nine Months Ended
	September 29, 2018			September 30, 2017		September 29, 2018		September 30, 2017
Net earnings attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	227,013		270,025		632,365		731,260
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest (a)	(670		)	(46	)	(975	)	(46	)
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	226,343		269,979		631,390		731,214
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	74,603			74,338		74,599		74,330
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	342			503		378		500
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	74,945			74,841		74,977		74,830
Earnings per share attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	3.03		3.63		8.46		9.84
Diluted	$	3.02		3.61		8.42		9.77

(a) Represents the accretion of the Company's redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemptive value resulting from the May 12, 2015 purchase of approximately 90% of all outstanding shares of the KAI Group. The Company has had the option to call and the holder the option to put this noncontrolling interest since May 12, 2018.