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Stockholders' Equity | 6 Months Ended
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Oct. 24, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Stockholders' Equity | 8. Stockholders’ Equity Restricted Stock Units We granted 4 million restricted stock units (RSUs), including performance-based RSUs (PBRSUs), with a weighted average grant date fair value of $105.45 per share during the six months ended October 24, 2025. In the six months ended October 24, 2025, we granted PBRSUs to certain of our executives. Each PBRSU has performance-based vesting criteria (in addition to the service-based vesting criteria) such that the PBRSUs cliff-vest at the end of a three year performance period, which began on the date specified in the grant agreements and typically ends on the last day of the third fiscal year, following the grant date. The number of shares that will be used to calculate the settlement amount for all of these PBRSUs at the end of the applicable performance and service period will range from 0% to 200% of a target number of shares originally granted. For half of the PBRSUs granted in the six months ended October 24, 2025, the number of shares used to calculate the settlement amount will depend upon our Total Stockholder Return (TSR) as compared to the TSR of a specified group of benchmark peer companies (each expressed as a growth rate percentage) calculated as of the end of the performance period. For the remaining half of the PBRSUs granted in the six months ended October 24, 2025, the number of shares used to calculate the settlement amount will depend upon the Company's billings result average over the three-year performance period. The billings result average is computed based on achievement against annual billings targets, with each target set at the beginning of the respective fiscal year, during the three-year performance period. Billings for purposes of measuring the performance of these PBRSUs means the total obtained by adding net revenues as reported on the Company's condensed consolidated statements of income to the amount reported as the change in deferred revenue and financed unearned services revenue on the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the applicable measurement period, excluding the imp act of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The aggregate grant date fair value of PBRSUs granted in the current year was $62 mil lion, which is being recognized to compensation expense over the remaining performance / service periods. Stock-Based Compensation Expense Stock-based compensation expense is included in the condensed consolidated statements of income as follows (in millions):
|  | Three Months Ended |  |  | Six Months Ended |
|  | October 24, 2025 |  |  | October 25, 2024 |  |  | October 24, 2025 |  |  | October 25, 2024 |
Cost of product revenues |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 3 |  |  | $ | 3 |
Cost of services revenues |  |  | 5 |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 12 |
Sales and marketing |  |  | 42 |  |  |  | 43 |  |  |  | 76 |  |  |  | 78 |
Research and development |  |  | 34 |  |  |  | 37 |  |  |  | 59 |  |  |  | 68 |
General and administrative |  |  | 19 |  |  |  | 15 |  |  |  | 36 |  |  |  | 27 |
Total stock-based compensation expense |  | $ | 102 |  |  | $ | 103 |  |  | $ | 185 |  |  | $ | 188 |
As of October 24, 2025, total unrecognized compensation expense related to equity awards was $790 million, which is expected to be recognized on a straight-line basis over a weighted-average remaining service period of 2.3 years. Stock Repurchase Program In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of an additional $1.1 billion of our common stock. Under our stock repurchase program, we may purchase shares of our outstanding common stock through solicited or unsolicited transactions in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, through accelerated share repurchase programs, pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan or in such other manner as deemed appropriate by our management. The stock repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. The following table summarizes activity related to the stock repurchase program for the six months ended October 24, 2025 (in millions, except for per share amounts):
Number of shares repurchased |  |  | 5.2 |
Average price per share |  | $ | 106.05 |
Stock repurchases allocated to additional paid-in capital |  | $ | 77 |
Stock repurchases allocated to retained earnings |  | $ | 473 |
Remaining authorization at end of period |  | $ | 902 |
Dividends The following is a summary of our activities related to dividends on our common stock (in millions, except per share amounts):
|  | Six Months Ended |
|  | October 24, 2025 |  |  | October 25, 2024 |
Dividends per share declared |  | $ | 1.04 |  |  | $ | 1.04 |
Dividend payments allocated to additional paid-in capital |  | $ | 142 |  |  | $ | 130 |
Dividend payments allocated to retained earnings |  | $ | 65 |  |  | $ | 83 |
On November 20, 2025, we declared a cash dividend of $0.52 per share of common stock, payable on January 21, 2026 to holders of record as of the close of business on January 2, 2026. The timing and amount of future dividends will depend on market conditions, corporate business and financial considerations and regulatory requirements. All dividends declared have been determined by us to be legally authorized under the laws of the state in which we are incorporated.

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