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Income Per Share Attributable to Methode Shareholders (Tables)

12 Months Ended

May. 02, 2015

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

Schedule of the Computation of Basic and Diluted Income Per Share

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

	Fiscal Year Ended
	May 2, 2015				May 3, 2014				April 27, 2013
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Methode Electronics, Inc.	101.1				$	96.1			$	40.7
Denominator:
Denominator for basic earnings per share-weighted average shares outstanding and vested/unissued restricted stock awards	38,686,715				37,973,697				37,406,386
Dilutive potential common shares-employee, restricted stock awards and restricted stock units	580,151				242,562				480,240
Denominator for diluted earnings per share	39,266,866				38,216,259				37,886,626
Basic and diluted income per share:
Basic income per share	$	2.61			$	2.53			$	1.09
Diluted income per share	$	2.57			$	2.51			$	1.08

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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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-Name Accounting Standards Codification



-Topic 260



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