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Earnings Per Share | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2017
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Earnings Per Share | EARNINGS PER SHARE The Company has two classes of common stock and, as such, applies the “two-class method” of computing earnings per share (“EPS”) as prescribed in ASC 260, “Earnings Per Share.” In accordance with this guidance, earnings are allocated in the same fashion as dividends would be distributed. Under the Company’s articles of incorporation, any distribution of dividends in any year must be made in proportion of one cent a share for Class A Common Stock to one and one-half cents a share for Class B Common Stock, which results in a 40% to 60% split to Class A and B shareholders, respectively. In accordance with this, earnings are allocated first to Class A and Class B Common Stock to the extent that dividends are actually paid and the remainder is allocated assuming all of the earnings for the period have been distributed in the form of dividends. The Company calculates EPS as follows:
Basic | = | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class A Dividends Per Share
Class A EPS | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding + 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | Average Class A Shares Outstanding
Diluted | = | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class A Dividends Per Share
Class A EPS | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding + 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | Average Diluted Class A Shares Outstanding
Basic | = | 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class B Dividends Per Share
Class B EPS | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding + 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | Average Class B Shares Outstanding
|  | * Diluted Class B EPS calculation is identical to Basic Class B calculation
The following table provides EPS information for each period, respectively:
| Year Ended October 31,
(in millions, except per share data) | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Numerator |  |  |  |  |
Numerator for basic and diluted EPS – |  |  |  |  |
Net income attributable to Greif | $ | 118.6 |  |  | $ | 74.9 |  |  | $ | 71.9 |
Cash dividends | 98.6 |  |  | 98.7 |  |  | 98.7 |
Undistributed net loss attributable to Greif, Inc. | $ | 20.0 |  |  | $ | (23.8 | ) |  | $ | (26.8 | )
Denominator |  |  |  |  |
Denominator for basic EPS – |  |  |  |  |
Class A common stock | 25.8 |  |  | 25.8 |  |  | 25.7 |
Class B common stock | 22.0 |  |  | 22.1 |  |  | 22.1 |
Denominator for diluted EPS – |  |  |  |  |
Class A common stock | 25.8 |  |  | 25.8 |  |  | 25.7 |
Class B common stock | 22.0 |  |  | 22.1 |  |  | 22.1 |
EPS Basic |  |  |  |  |
Class A common stock | $ | 2.02 |  |  | $ | 1.28 |  |  | $ | 1.23 |
Class B common stock | $ | 3.02 |  |  | $ | 1.90 |  |  | $ | 1.83 |
EPS Diluted |  |  |  |  |
Class A common stock | $ | 2.02 |  |  | $ | 1.28 |  |  | $ | 1.23 |
Class B common stock | $ | 3.02 |  |  | $ | 1.90 |  |  | $ | 1.83 |
The Class A Common Stock has no voting rights unless four quarterly cumulative dividends upon the Class A Common Stock are in arrears. The Class B Common Stock has full voting rights. There is no cumulative voting for the election of directors. Common Stock Repurchases In June 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the purchase of an additional 4,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock or any combination of the foregoing; this additional authorization was additive to the shares that remained outstanding under prior authorizations. In July 2017, the Company's Stock Repurchase Committee authorized and the Company executed the repurchase of 2,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, which reduced the remaining amount of shares that may be repurchased by the Company to 4,703,487. During the year ended October 31, 2016, the Stock Repurchase Committee authorized and the Company executed the repurchase of 110,241 shares of Class B Common Stock as part of the program. There have been no other shares repurchased by the Company from November 1, 2014 through October 31, 2017. As of October 31, 2017, the Company had repurchased 3,296,513 shares, including 1,425,452 shares of Class A Common Stock and 1,871,061 shares of Class B Common Stock, under this program. The following table summarizes the Company’s Class A and Class B common and treasury shares at the specified dates:
| Authorized Shares |  | Issued Shares |  | Outstanding Shares |  | Treasury Shares
October 31, 2017: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Class A Common Stock | 128,000,000 |  |  | 42,281,920 |  |  | 25,835,281 |  |  | 16,446,639 |
Class B Common Stock | 69,120,000 |  |  | 34,560,000 |  |  | 22,007,725 |  |  | 12,552,275 |
October 31, 2016: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Class A Common Stock | 128,000,000 |  |  | 42,281,920 |  |  | 25,781,791 |  |  | 16,500,129 |
Class B Common Stock | 69,120,000 |  |  | 34,560,000 |  |  | 22,009,725 |  |  | 12,550,275 |
The following is a reconciliation of the shares used to calculate basic and diluted earnings per share:
| Year Ended October 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Class A Common Stock: |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares | 25,820,470 |  |  | 25,755,545 |  |  | 25,668,204 |
Assumed conversion of stock options and unvested shares | 2,470 |  |  | 1,348 |  |  | 5,901 |
Diluted shares | 25,822,940 |  |  | 25,756,893 |  |  | 25,674,105 |
Class B Common Stock: |  |  |  |  |
Basic and diluted shares | 22,009,193 |  |  | 22,062,089 |  |  | 22,119,966 |
No stock options were antidilutive for the years ended October 31, 2017, 2016, or 2015.

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