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Segment Data | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Data |
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The company's businesses are organized, managed, and internally grouped into segments based on similarities in products and services. Segment selection is based on the manner in which management organizes segments for making operating and investment decisions and assessing performance. The company has identified ten operating segments and has aggregated certain of those segments into two reportable segments: Professional and Residential. The aggregation of the company's segments is based on the segments having the following similarities: economic characteristics, types of products and services, types of production processes, type or class of customers, and method of distribution. The company's remaining activities are presented as "Other" due to their insignificance. The Professional business segment consists of turf and landscape equipment; rental, specialty, and underground construction equipment; snow and ice management equipment; and irrigation products. Turf and landscape equipment products include sports fields and grounds maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment, landscape creation and renovation equipment, and other maintenance equipment. Rental, specialty, and underground construction equipment products include horizontal directional drills, walk and ride trenchers, compact utility loaders/skid steers, vacuum excavators, stump grinders, turf renovation products, asset locators, pipe rehabilitation solutions, materials handling equipment, and other after-market tools. Snow and ice management equipment products include snowplows, salt and sand spreaders, and related parts and accessories for light and medium duty trucks, utility task vehicles, skid steers, and front-end loaders. Irrigation products consist of sprinkler heads, electric and hydraulic valves, controllers, computer irrigation central control systems, coupling systems, and ag-irrigation drip tape and hose products, as well as professionally installed lighting products offered through distributors and landscape contractors that also purchase irrigation products. Professional business segment products are sold mainly through a network of distributors and dealers to professional users engaged in maintaining golf courses, sports fields, municipal properties, agricultural fields, residential and commercial landscapes, and removing snow and ice, as well as directly to government customers, rental companies, and large retailers. The Residential business segment consists of walk power mowers, riding mowers, snow throwers, replacement parts, and home solutions products, including trimmers, blowers, blower-vacuums, and underground, hose, and hose-end retail irrigation products sold in Australia and New Zealand. Residential business segment products are sold to homeowners through a network of distributors and dealers, and through a broad array of home centers, hardware retailers, and mass retailers, as well as online. The company's Other activities consist of the company's wholly-owned domestic distribution companies, the company's corporate activities, and the elimination of intersegment revenues and expenses. Corporate activities include general corporate expenditures (finance, human resources, legal, information services, public relations, business development, and similar activities) and other unallocated corporate assets and liabilities, such as corporate facilities and deferred tax assets and liabilities. The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies in Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Related Data. The company evaluates the performance of its Professional and Residential business segment results based on earnings from operations plus other income, net. The business segment's operating profits or losses include direct costs incurred at the segment's operating level plus allocated expenses, such as profit sharing and manufacturing expenses. The allocated expenses represent costs that these operations would have incurred otherwise, but do not include general corporate expenses, interest expense, and income taxes. Operating loss for the company's Other activities includes earnings (loss) from the company's domestic wholly-owned distribution companies, corporate activities, other income, and interest expense. The company accounts for intersegment gross sales at current market prices. The following tables present summarized financial information concerning the company's reportable segments and Other activities (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2019 |  | Professional |  | Residential |  | Other |  | Total
Net sales |  | $ | 2,443,448 |  |  | $ | 661,274 |  |  | $ | 33,362 |  |  | $ | 3,138,084 |
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations) |  | 59,453 |  |  | 310 |  |  | (59,763 | ) |  | — |
Earnings (loss) before income taxes |  | 380,914 |  |  | 65,151 |  |  | (123,932 | ) |  | 322,133 |
Total assets |  | 1,592,065 |  |  | 430,495 |  |  | 307,987 |  |  | 2,330,547 |
Capital expenditures |  | 57,246 |  |  | 16,970 |  |  | 18,665 |  |  | 92,881 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | $ | 63,885 |  |  | $ | 11,897 |  |  | $ | 11,916 |  |  | $ | 87,698 |
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2018 |  | Professional |  | Residential |  | Other |  | Total
Net sales |  | $ | 1,946,999 |  |  | $ | 654,413 |  |  | $ | 17,238 |  |  | $ | 2,618,650 |
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations) |  | 29,798 |  |  | 312 |  |  | (30,110 | ) |  | — |
Earnings (loss) before income taxes |  | 399,806 |  |  | 64,807 |  |  | (92,216 | ) |  | 372,397 |
Total assets |  | 916,106 |  |  | 199,273 |  |  | 455,605 |  |  | 1,570,984 |
Capital expenditures |  | 58,109 |  |  | 16,014 |  |  | 16,001 |  |  | 90,124 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | $ | 38,585 |  |  | $ | 9,999 |  |  | $ | 12,693 |  |  | $ | 61,277 |
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2017 |  | Professional |  | Residential |  | Other |  | Total
Net sales |  | $ | 1,811,705 |  |  | $ | 673,247 |  |  | $ | 20,224 |  |  | $ | 2,505,176 |
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations) |  | 27,893 |  |  | 332 |  |  | (28,225 | ) |  | — |
Earnings (loss) before income taxes |  | 379,496 |  |  | 74,704 |  |  | (101,016 | ) |  | 353,184 |
Total assets |  | 836,600 |  |  | 189,578 |  |  | 467,609 |  |  | 1,493,787 |
Capital expenditures |  | 29,786 |  |  | 10,605 |  |  | 17,885 |  |  | 58,276 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | $ | 41,313 |  |  | $ | 10,308 |  |  | $ | 13,365 |  |  | $ | 64,986 |
During fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2018 , no customer accounted for 10 percent or more of total consolidated gross sales. Sales to one customer in the Residential segment accounted for 10.0 percent of total consolidated gross sales in fiscal 2017. The following table presents the details of operating loss before income taxes for the company's Other activities (in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended October 31 |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Corporate expenses |  | $ | (124,422 | ) |  | $ | (92,541 | ) |  | $ | (100,928 | )
Interest expense |  | (28,835 | ) |  | (19,096 | ) |  | (19,113 | )
Other income |  | 29,325 |  |  | 19,421 |  |  | 19,025 |
Total operating loss |  | $ | (123,932 | ) |  | $ | (92,216 | ) |  | $ | (101,016 | )
The following table presents net sales for groups of similar products and services (in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended October 31 |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Equipment |  | $ | 2,747,935 |  |  | $ | 2,210,047 |  |  | $ | 2,060,354 |
Irrigation and lighting |  | 390,149 |  |  | 408,603 |  |  | 444,822 |
Total net sales |  | $ | 3,138,084 |  |  | $ | 2,618,650 |  |  | $ | 2,505,176 |
The following geographic area data includes net sales based on product shipment destination and long-lived assets, which consist of net property, plant, and equipment, and is based on physical location in addition to allocated capital tooling from U.S. plant facilities (in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended October 31 |  | United States |  | Foreign Countries |  | Total
2019 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales |  | $ | 2,413,153 |  |  | $ | 724,931 |  |  | $ | 3,138,084 |
Long-lived assets |  | $ | 395,937 |  |  | $ | 41,380 |  |  | $ | 437,317 |
2018 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales |  | $ | 1,975,562 |  |  | $ | 643,088 |  |  | $ | 2,618,650 |
Long-lived assets |  | $ | 230,246 |  |  | $ | 41,213 |  |  | $ | 271,459 |
2017 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales |  | $ | 1,893,249 |  |  | $ | 611,927 |  |  | $ | 2,505,176 |
Long-lived assets |  | $ | 194,338 |  |  | $ | 40,892 |  |  | $ | 235,230 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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