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Segment Data | 12 Months Ended
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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 eleven 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 reportable business segment consists of turf and landscape equipment; rental, specialty, and underground construction equipment; snow and ice management equipment; and irrigation and lighting products. Turf and landscape equipment products include sports fields and grounds mowing and 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, stand-on 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 primarily include snowplows; stand-on snow and ice removal equipment, including the related snowplow, snow brush, and snow thrower attachments; 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 and lighting 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 landscape lighting products offered through distributors and landscape contractors that also purchase irrigation products. Professional reportable business segment products are marketed and 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 reportable business segment consists of walk power mowers, zero-turn riding mowers, snow throwers, replacement parts, and home solutions products, including grass trimmers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, blower-vacuums, chainsaws, Power Shovels, string trimmers, and underground, hose, and hose-end retail irrigation products sold in Australia and New Zealand. Residential reportable business segment products are marketed and 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 reportable business 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 reportable business segment results based on earnings from operations plus other income, net. The reportable business segment's operating profits or losses include direct costs incurred at the reportable business 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 business segments and Other activities (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2020 |  | Professional |  | Residential |  | Other |  | Total
Net sales |  | $ | 2,523,452 |  |  | $ | 820,745 |  |  | $ | 34,613 |  |  | $ | 3,378,810 |
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations) |  | 46,703 |  |  | 80 |  |  | (46,783) |  |  | — |
Earnings (loss) before income taxes |  | 426,560 |  |  | 113,669 |  |  | (133,159) |  |  | 407,070 |
Total assets |  | 1,940,844 |  |  | 282,061 |  |  | 630,323 |  |  | 2,853,228 |
Capital expenditures |  | 49,975 |  |  | 13,669 |  |  | 14,424 |  |  | 78,068 |
Depreciation and amortization |  | $ | 70,460 |  |  | $ | 12,607 |  |  | $ | 12,548 |  |  | $ | 95,615 |
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 |
During fiscal 2020, 2019, and 2018 no customer accounted for 10.0 percent or more of total consolidated gross sales. 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 |  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Corporate expenses |  | $ | (108,396) |  |  | $ | (124,422) |  |  | $ | (92,541) |
Interest expense |  | (33,156) |  |  | (28,835) |  |  | (19,096) |
Earnings from wholly-owned domestic distribution companies and other income, net |  | 8,393 |  |  | 29,325 |  |  | 19,421 |
Total operating loss |  | $ | (133,159) |  |  | $ | (123,932) |  |  | $ | (92,216) |
The following table presents net sales for groups of similar products and services (in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended October 31 |  | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Equipment |  | $ | 2,985,295 |  |  | $ | 2,747,935 |  |  | $ | 2,210,047 |
Irrigation and lighting |  | 393,515 |  |  | 390,149 |  |  | 408,603 |
Total net sales |  | $ | 3,378,810 |  |  | $ | 3,138,084 |  |  | $ | 2,618,650 |
The following geographic area data includes net sales based on product shipment destination and long-lived assets, which consist of property, plant and equipment, net, 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 |  | International Countries |  | Total
2020 |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales |  | $ | 2,700,694 |  |  | $ | 678,116 |  |  | $ | 3,378,810 |
Long-lived assets |  | $ | 426,378 |  |  | $ | 41,541 |  |  | $ | 467,919 |
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 |

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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://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -Subparagraph (a) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8721-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -Subparagraph (f) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -Subparagraph (e) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -Subparagraph (d) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 22 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8736-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 15 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8657-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -Subparagraph (b) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8721-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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