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Income Per Share Attributable to Methode Shareholders (Tables)

12 Months Ended

May 03, 2014

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted income per share: 

	Fiscal Year Ended
	May 3, 2014				April 27, 2013				April 28, 2012
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Methode Electronics, Inc.	$	96.1			$	40.7			$	8.4
Denominator:
Denominator for basic earnings per share-weighted average shares outstanding and vested/unissued restricted stock awards	37,973,697				37,406,386				37,366,505
Dilutive potential common shares-employee and director stock options, restricted stock awards and restricted stock units	242,562				480,240				225,475
Denominator for diluted earnings per share	38,216,259				37,886,626				37,591,980
Basic and diluted income per share:
Basic income per share	$	2.53			$	1.09			$	0.22
Diluted income per share	$	2.51			$	1.08			$	0.22

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- Definition

Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 260

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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