Earnings Per Share

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

8. Earnings Per Share

The following is a reconciliation of the shares used to compute basic and diluted earnings per share (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended		Six Months Ended
	June 30,		June 30,
	2017	2016	2017	2016
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding used to compute basic earnings per share	52,823	53,422	52,741	53,284
Dilutive effect of stock-based awards	650	489	634	499
Number of shares used to compute diluted earnings per share	53,473	53,911	53,375	53,783

During the three months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, and the six months ended June 30, 2017, there were no significant share equivalents that were anti-dilutive when applying the treasury stock method. During the six months ended June 30, 2016, there were 445,036 share equivalents that were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings because they were anti-dilutive when applying the treasury stock method.