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Stock Repurchase Program (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2021
Stock Repurchase Program [Abstract] |
Stock Repurchase And Reissuance Activities | Stock repurchase activities as well as the reissuance of treasury stock for employee stock-based compensation purposes are as follows:
| Three Months Ended July 31, |  | Nine Months Ended July 31,
| 2021(1) |  | 2020(2) |  | 2021(1) |  | 2020(2)
| (in thousands)
Total shares repurchased | 521 |  |  | 149 |  |  | 2,114 |  |  | 1,380 |
Total cost of the repurchased shares | $ | 140,000 |  |  | $ | 20,000 |  |  | $ | 538,082 |  |  | $ | 200,000 |
Reissuance of treasury stock | 564 |  |  | 999 |  |  | 2,093 |  |  | 2,807 |
(1) Do es not include the 99,573 shares and $35.0 million equity forward contract from the June 2021 ASR. (2) The third quarter of fiscal 2020 includes the settlement of the 148,953 shares and $20.0 million equity forward contract from the February 2020 ASR settled in May 2020.

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