Accelerated Share Repurchases, Number Of Agreements

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Accelerated Share Repurchases, Number Of Financial Institutions

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Accelerated Share Repurchases, Ratio Of Prepayment Amount To Closing Stock Price

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Stock Repurchase Program, Increase In Authorized Amount

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Final price paid per share for the purchase of the targeted number of shares, determined by an average market price over a fixed period of time.

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Amount of cash receipt from (payment to) bank; or stock received from (issuance to) bank in the settlement of the accelerated share repurchase agreement.

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The amount of adjustment to stockholders' equity associated with an employee's income tax withholding obligation as part of a net-share settlement of a share-based award.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For net-share settlement of share-based awards when the employer settles employees' income tax withholding obligations, this element represents the number of shares the employees use to repay the employer.

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Number of shares that have been repurchased during the period and are being held in treasury.

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STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM - Additional Information (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Thousands		1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Aug. 15, 2018 USD ($) financial_institution agreement shares	Jan. 29, 2019 agreement $ / shares shares	Nov. 30, 2018 USD ($) shares	Dec. 23, 2018 USD ($) agreement $ / shares shares	Sep. 23, 2018 shares	Dec. 23, 2018 USD ($) shares
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Board authorized increase \| $			$ 5,000,000,000
Net shares of settlements to cover tax withholding obligations (shares) \| shares				9		23
Amount paid for shares under net share settlements \| $				$ 1,400,000		$ 3,800,000
Weighted-average share price (usd per share) \| $ / shares				$ 148.72
Stock repurchase program
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Board authorized increase \| $			$ 5,000,000,000.0
Number of shares repurchased (shares) \| shares			0	1,683	7,807
August 2018 ASR
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Number of accelerated share repurchase agreements \| agreement	4			2
Number of financial institutions \| financial_institution	2
Total repurchase amount \| $	$ 1,400,000,000
Number of shares repurchased (shares) \| shares	5,800			1,700
Percent of prepayment divided by closing stock price	75.00%
August 2018 ASR \| Subsequent event
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Number of accelerated share repurchase agreements \| agreement		2
Number of shares repurchased (shares) \| shares		1,800
Weighted-average share price (usd per share) \| $ / shares		$ 146.00