<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001127602-21-031249.txt : 20211217
<SEC-HEADER>0001127602-21-031249.hdr.sgml : 20211217
<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20211217124023
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001127602-21-031249
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20211215
FILED AS OF DATE:		20211217
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20211217

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MOELLER PETER D
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001796513

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08649
		FILM NUMBER:		211500559

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8111 LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH
		CITY:			BLOOMINGTON
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55420

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TORO CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000737758
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	LAWN & GARDEN TRACTORS & HOME LAWN & GARDEN EQUIPMENT [3524]
		IRS NUMBER:				410580470
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8111 LYNDALE AVE SOUTH
		CITY:			BLOOMINGTON
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55420-1196
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9528888801

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8111 LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH
		CITY:			BLOOMINGTON
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55420

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	TORO CO/DE
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2021-12-15</periodOfReport>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000737758</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>TORO CO</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>TTC</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001796513</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>MOELLER PETER D</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>8111 LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>BLOOMINGTON</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MN</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>55420</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <officerTitle>VP, International</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-12-15</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness></transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>962</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>3923.822</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-12-15</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>F</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness></transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>295</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>98.03</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>3628.822</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
        <nonDerivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>3919.077</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F3"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>I</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <natureOfOwnership>
                    <value>The Toro Company Retirement Plan</value>
                </natureOfOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeHolding>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <derivativeTable>
        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Non-Qualified Stock Option</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>99.34</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-12-16</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness></transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>6700</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F4"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <value>2031-12-16</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>6700</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>6700</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
    </derivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Represents the payout of a Performance Share Award for the Fiscal 2019 to Fiscal 2021 Performance Period under The Toro Company Amended and Restated 2010 Equity and Incentive Plan, as amended and restated (the &quot;Amended and Restated 2010 Plan&quot;), as approved by the Issuer's Compensation &amp; Human Resources Committee of its Board of Directors on December 14, 2021, and which was conditioned upon and subject to confirmation by the Issuer's Fiscal 2021 financial results that were released on December 15, 2021. Performance Share Awards are paid in shares of common stock under the Amended and Restated 2010 Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Includes 21.556 shares acquired by the reporting person since the date of his last report under a dividend reinvestment feature of the account in which the shares are held.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Includes 28.449 net shares acquired by the reporting person since the date of his last report under the dividend reinvestment feature of The Toro Company Retirement Plan less non-discretionary quarterly administrative fees.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">The option vests in three equal annual installments commencing on the first anniversary of the date of grant.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Angela D. Snavely, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2021-12-17</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>EX-24
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>doc1.txt
<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY (PUBLIC):
<TEXT>
Exhibit 24

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes
and appoints each of Amy E. Dahl, Angela D. Snavely and Timothy C. Quist,
signing singly, true and lawful attorneys-in-fact relative to the filings
identified below in connection with the undersigned's derivative and
non-derivative securities ofThe Toro Company (the ?Company?) to:

(1)	Prepare and execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in
the undersigned?s capacity as an officer of the Company, Forms 3, 4
and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder
(the ?Exchange Act?);

(2)	Prepare and execute for and on behalf of the undersigned,
in the undersigned?s capacity as an officer of the Company, any
Form 144 in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the
?Securities Act?);

(3)	Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 and the timely filing of
such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(4)	Take any other action of any type whatsoever, including
administration of EDGAR filing codes, in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may
be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Limited Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
approve in such attorney-in-fact?s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact might or could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact,
or any substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the
request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
the Securities Act and Exchange Act, including Section 16 of the
Exchange Act and Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power
of Attorney to be executed effective as of the date indicated below,
and said Power of Attorney shall remain in effect until revoked by
the undersigned in writing, or at such time as the undersigned is
no longer an officer of the Company, whichever first occurs.


Signed:		/s/ Peter D. Moeller
		Peter D. Moeller

Dated:	11/14/2021
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