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Earnings Per Share | 9 Months Ended
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Jul. 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 Class A EPS | = | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class A Dividends Per Share
40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding + 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | Average Class A Shares Outstanding
Diluted Class A EPS | = | 40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class A Dividends Per Share
40% * Average Class A Shares Outstanding + 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | Average Diluted Class A Shares Outstanding
Basic Class B EPS | = | 60% * Average Class B Shares Outstanding | * | Undistributed Net Income | + | Class B Dividends Per Share
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:
| Three Months Ended July 31, |  | Nine Months Ended July 31,
(in millions) | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Numerator for basic and diluted EPS |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net income attributable to Greif, Inc. | $ | 43.9 |  |  | $ | 46.1 |  |  | $ | 85.3 |  |  | $ | 66.4 |
Cash dividends | (24.7 | ) |  | (24.7 | ) |  | (73.9 | ) |  | (74.0 | )
Undistributed net income (loss) attributable to Greif, Inc. | $ | 19.2 |  |  | $ | 21.4 |  |  | $ | 11.4 |  |  | $ | (7.6 | )
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 of the Company's shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock or any combination of the foregoing. 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 nine months ended July 31, 2016, the Stock Repurchase Committee authorized and the Company executed the repurchase of 110,241 shares of Class B Common Stock. There have been no other shares repurchased under this program from November 1, 2015 through July 31, 2017. The following table summarizes the Company’s Class A and Class B common and treasury shares as of the specified dates:
| Authorized Shares |  | Issued Shares |  | Outstanding Shares |  | Treasury Shares
July 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:
| Three Months Ended July 31, |  | Nine Months Ended July 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Class A Common Stock: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares | 25,834,636 |  |  | 25,781,146 |  |  | 25,815,533 |  |  | 25,746,797 |
Assumed conversion of restricted shares | 658 |  |  | 2,038 |  |  | 3,284 |  |  | 349 |
Diluted shares | 25,835,294 |  |  | 25,783,184 |  |  | 25,818,817 |  |  | 25,747,146 |
Class B Common Stock: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic and diluted shares | 22,009,596 |  |  | 22,009,725 |  |  | 22,009,682 |  |  | 22,079,544 |

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