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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Noncash Expense [Abstract] |
Allocated Share-based compensation expense disclosure | The impact on our results for share-based compensation was as follows:
| Years Ended October 31,
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
| (in millions)
Cost of products and services | $ | 44 |  |  | $ | 41 |  |  | $ | 34 |
Research and development | 15 |  |  | 16 |  |  | 13 |
Selling, general and administrative | 70 |  |  | 73 |  |  | 65 |
Total share-based compensation expense | $ | 129 |  |  | $ | 130 |  |  | $ | 112 |
Schedule of Share-Based Payment Award, Stock Options, Valuation Assumptions | The following assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of awards granted.
| Years Ended October 31,
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
Stock Option Plan: |  |  |  |  |
Weighted average risk-free interest rate | 4.1% |  | 4.4% |  | 3.9%
Dividend yield | 0.7% |  | 0.8% |  | 0.6%
Weighted average volatility | 29% |  | 29% |  | 28%
Expected life | 5.5 years |  | 5.5 years |  | 5.5 years
LTPP: |  |  |  |  |
Volatility of Agilent shares | 30% |  | 28% |  | 31%
Volatility of selected peer-company shares | 16%-62% |  | 16%-70% |  | 22%-84%
Pair-wise correlation with selected peers | 29% |  | 30% |  | 42%
Post-vest restriction discount for all executive awards | 6.7% |  | 6.4% |  | 7.1%
Summary of stock option award activity | The following table summarizes employee stock option award activity of our employees and directors for 2025.
| Options Outstanding |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price
| (in thousands) |  |
Outstanding at October 31, 2024 | 1,005 |  |  | $ | 134 |
Granted | 240 |  |  | $ | 137 |
Exercised | (129) |  |  | $ | 119 |
Cancelled | (202) |  |  | $ | 144 |
Outstanding at October 31, 2025 | 914 |  |  | $ | 134 |
Schedule of share-based compensation, shares authorized under stock option plans, by exercise price range | The options outstanding and exercisable for equity share-based payment awards at October 31, 2025 were as follow:
| Options Outstanding |  | Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices | Number Outstanding |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price |  | Aggregate Intrinsic Value |  | Number Exercisable |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price |  | Aggregate Intrinsic Value
| (in thousands) |  | (in years) |  |  |  | (in thousands) |  | (in thousands) |  | (in years) |  |  |  | (in thousands)
$109.00 - $120.00 | 204 |  |  | 5.3 |  | $ | 110 |  |  | $ | 7,347 |  |  | 191 |  |  | 5.1 |  | $ | 110 |  |  | $ | 6,945 |
$120.01- $130.00 | 183 |  |  | 8.1 |  | $ | 124 |  |  | 4,088 |  |  | 112 |  |  | 8.0 |  | $ | 124 |  |  | 2,489 |
$130.01 - $140.00 | 211 |  |  | 8.8 |  | $ | 138 |  |  | 1,857 |  |  | 20 |  |  | 7.6 |  | $ | 136 |  |  | 216 |
$140.01 & Over | 316 |  |  | 6.6 |  | $ | 154 |  |  | 57 |  |  | 263 |  |  | 6.5 |  | $ | 155 |  |  | 21 |
| 914 |  |  | 7.1 |  | $ | 134 |  |  | $ | 13,349 |  |  | 586 |  |  | 6.4 |  | $ | 134 |  |  | $ | 9,671 |
Schedule of Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-Based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Grant Date Intrinsic Value | The following table summarizes the aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised and the fair value of options granted in 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| Aggregate Intrinsic Value |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price |  | Per Share Value Using Black-Scholes Model
| (in thousands) |  |  |  |
Options exercised in fiscal 2023 | $ | 25,303 |  |  | $ | 41 |  |  |
Black Scholes per share value of options granted during fiscal 2023 |  |  |  |  | $ | 47 |
Options exercised in fiscal 2024 | $ | 22,762 |  |  | $ | 64 |  |  |
Black Scholes per share value of options granted during fiscal 2024 |  |  |  |  | $ | 41 |
Options exercised in fiscal 2025 | $ | 1,384 |  |  | $ | 119 |  |  |
Black Scholes per share value of options granted during fiscal 2025 |  |  |  |  | $ | 44 |
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Activity | The following table summarizes non-vested award activity in 2025 primarily for our LTPP and restricted stock unit awards.
| Shares |  | Weighted Average Grant Price
| (in thousands) |  |
Non-vested at October 31, 2024 | 2,136 |  |  | $ | 136 |
Granted | 927 |  |  | $ | 133 |
Vested | (815) |  |  | $ | 137 |
Forfeited | (168) |  |  | $ | 134 |
Change in LTPP shares in the year due to not meeting performance targets | (40) |  |  | $ | 158 |
Non-vested at October 31, 2025 | 2,040 |  |  | $ | 134 |

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