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Earnings Per Share | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Earnings Per Share | Earnings Per Share The following table sets forth the reconciliation from basic to diluted weighted-average number of common shares outstanding and the calculations of net earnings per common share attributable to EnerSys stockholders.
|  | Fiscal year ended March 31,
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Net earnings attributable to EnerSys stockholders |  | $ | 160,214 |  |  | $ | 136,150 |  |  | $ | 181,188 |
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding: |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic |  | 43,389,333 |  |  | 44,276,713 |  |  | 45,606,317 |
Dilutive effect of: |  |  |  |  |  |
Common shares from exercise and lapse of equity awards, net of shares assumed reacquired |  | 623,210 |  |  | 644,036 |  |  | 879,406 |
Convertible Notes |  | — |  |  | 553,381 |  |  | 1,567,006 |
Diluted weighted-average number of common shares outstanding |  | 44,012,543 |  |  | 45,474,130 |  |  | 48,052,729 |
Basic earnings per common share attributable to EnerSys stockholders |  | $ | 3.69 |  |  | $ | 3.08 |  |  | $ | 3.97 |
Diluted earnings per common share attributable to EnerSys stockholders |  | $ | 3.64 |  |  | $ | 2.99 |  |  | $ | 3.77 |
Anti-dilutive equity awards not included in diluted weighted-average common shares |  | 1,295 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
In fiscal 2016, the Company paid $172,388, in aggregate, towards the principal balance of the Convertible Notes, including accreted interest, cash equivalent of fractional shares issued towards conversion premium and settled the conversion premium by issuing, in the aggregate, 1,889,431 shares of its common stock, which were included in the diluted weighted average shares outstanding for the period prior to the extinguishment.

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