Earnings per share (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2019

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 30, 2019		March 31, 2018
Net earnings attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.	$	121,585	208,766
Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interest (1)	—		(305	)
Net earnings available to common stockholders	$	121,585	208,461
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-basic and diluted:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding—basic	72,342		74,453
Add weighted-average dilutive potential common shares—options to purchase common shares and RSUs, net	304		476
Weighted-average common shares outstanding-diluted	72,646		74,929
Earnings per share attributable to Mohawk Industries, Inc.
Basic	$	1.68	2.80
Diluted	$	1.67	2.78

(1) Represents the accretion of the Company’s redeemable noncontrolling interest to redemptive value. The holder put this option to the Company on December 20, 2018 for $33,884.