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Share-Based Payments (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
Share-Based Payments [Abstract] |
Weighted average Black-Scholes assumptions for stock options granted |
|  | 2015 |
Expected volatility (%) |  |  | 25.0 | %
Dividend Yield (%) |  |  | 2.2 | %
Risk-free interest rate (%) |  |  | 1.5 | %
Expected life of stock option (years) |  |  | 5.6 |
Summary of the Company's stock option activity and related information |
|  | Number of Options |  |  | Weighted-Average Exercise Price |
Outstanding at May 1, 2014 |  |  | 33,667 |  |  | $ | 44.50 |
Granted |  |  | 955,000 |  |  |  | 112.59 |
Exercised |  |  | 31,667 |  |  |  | 44.29 |
Outstanding at April 30, 2015 |  |  | 957,000 |  |  | $ | 112.45 |
Exercisable at April 30, 2015 |  |  | 2,000 |  |  | $ | 47.78 |
Summary of restricted shares, deferred shares, deferred stock units, and performance units |
|  | Restricted Shares and Deferred Stock Units |  |  | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value |  |  | Performance Units |  |  | Weighted-Average Conversion Date Fair Value |
Outstanding at May 1, 2014 |  |  | 839,188 |  |  | $ | 76.54 |  |  |  | 101,020 |  |  | $ | 104.91 |
Granted |  |  | 109,091 |  |  |  | 104.82 |  |  |  | 75,848 |  |  |  | 111.41 |
Converted |  |  | 101,020 |  |  |  | 104.91 |  |  |  | (101,020) |  |  |  | 104.91 |
Vested |  |  | (416,328) |  |  |  | 68.59 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Forfeited |  |  | (36,082) |  |  |  | 90.65 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Outstanding at April 30, 2015 |  |  | 596,889 |  |  | $ | 91.21 |  |  |  | 75,848 |  |  | $ | 111.41 |
Weighted-average grant date fair values of the equity awards |
Year Ended April 30, |  | Restricted Shares and Deferred Stock Units |  |  | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value |  |  | Performance Units |  |  | Weighted-Average Conversion Date Fair Value |
2015 |  |  | 109,091 |  |  | $ | 104.82 |  |  |  | 75,848 |  |  | $ | 111.41 |
2014 |  |  | 167,134 |  |  |  | 101.08 |  |  |  | 101,020 |  |  |  | 104.91 |
2013 |  |  | 109,770 |  |  |  | 76.37 |  |  |  | 106,666 |  |  |  | 100.54 |

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