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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000771497-25-000008
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20250328

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ABM INDUSTRIES INC /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000771497
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-TO DWELLINGS & OTHER BUILDINGS [7340]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	07 Trade & Services
		EIN:				941369354
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE LIBERTY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		7TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10006
		BUSINESS PHONE:		212 297-0200

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		ONE LIBERTY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		7TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10006

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ABM INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950110

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	AMERICAN BUILDING MAINTENANCE INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="iae4f9d6e73514cc5ad25cacbb6c95611_36"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.234%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"><div><img alt="imagea.jpg" src="imagea.jpg" style="height:71px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:152px"></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">One Liberty Plaza, 7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:6.47pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-3.48pt;vertical-align:baseline">th</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"> Floor</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">New York, N.Y. 10006</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Office&#58; (212) 297-0200</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Fax&#58; (212) 297-0375</font></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">March 28, 2025</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">VIA EDGAR</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Division of Corporate Finance</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Office of Trade &#38; Services</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">100 F Street, NE</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Attention&#58; Ta Tanisha Meadows and Joel Parker</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Re&#58; </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">     </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">ABM Industries Incorporated </font></div><div style="text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2024 </font></div><div style="text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Form 8-K Filed December 18, 2024 </font></div><div style="text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">File No. 1-08929</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Ladies and Gentlemen&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">On behalf of ABM Industries Incorporated (referred to as &#8220;ABM,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;our,&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), please find our response to the letter from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) dated March 6, 2025 with respect to the above-referenced filings. All references to years within this letter are to our fiscal year, which ends on October 31. To assist with your review, we have included the Staff&#8217;s comment in italics directly above our response.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">Form 8-K Filed December 18, 2024 </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">Exhibit 99.1 </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Financial Measures </font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">1. </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">We note your adjustment for &#34;Prior year self-insurance adjustment&#34; in arriving at Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA. Please tell us how you concluded this adjustment does not represent an individually tailored accounting principle. Refer to Question 100.04 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Response&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">Background </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">The Company uses a combination of insured and self-insurance programs to cover workers&#8217; compensation, general liability, automobile liability, property damage, and other insurable risks. Additionally, we are self-insured for certain employee medical and dental plans.  As of October 31, 2024, we had gross insurance claim reserves totaling $619.4 million, which includes claims that occurred as early as 1988 through October 31, 2024. </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">We engage a professional third-party claims administrator to administer all claims. The administrator establishes an initial claim estimate that is used in the evaluation of our insurance reserves. Our claims management process is further augmented by ABM internal resources and other external resources and involves a comparison of actual trends to expected trends as well as monitoring of claims developments. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">We record our reserves for workers&#8217; compensation, general liability, automobile liability, and property damage insurance claims based upon all available information to develop our best </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.234%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"><div><img alt="imagea.jpg" src="imagea.jpg" style="height:71px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:152px"></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">One Liberty Plaza, 7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:6.47pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-3.48pt;vertical-align:baseline">th</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"> Floor</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">New York, N.Y. 10006</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Office&#58; (212) 297-0200</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Fax&#58; (212) 297-0375</font></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">estimate of insurance claims reserves for our current fiscal and prior fiscal years, as information is obtained, which includes known trends and events and third-party independent actuarial determined estimates of required reserves. </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">For periods in which a third-party actuarial valuation is not performed, we conduct reviews to evaluate patterns and trends related to changes made to claims reserves and claims payment activity for the period. </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">ABM&#8217;s Non-GAAP Self-Insurance Adjustment</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">As disclosed in our Press Release dated December 18, 2024 furnished as an exhibit to our Current Report on Form 8-K, page 14, the Company adjusts net income (loss) to eliminate changes to its self-insurance reserves to the extent that those reserve changes relate to claims that occurred prior to the beginning of the then-current fiscal year (a &#8220;Prior Year Adjustment&#8221;). Accordingly, net income (loss) is only adjusted by a Prior Year Adjustment and our current operating results continue to include our best estimate of our self-insurance programs&#8217; incurred expense for that fiscal year. </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Even though our non-GAAP Prior Year Adjustment excludes amounts from the most directly comparable GAAP measure, we have concluded that this non-GAAP adjustment does not represent an individually tailored accounting policy that causes the presentation of the Company&#8217;s non-GAAP measure to be misleading based on the following&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.15pt">The adjustment does not shift the measure from an accrual basis of accounting to a cash or modified basis of accounting.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.15pt">The adjustment has no impact on recognized revenue.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.15pt">The adjustment does not include transactions that are also reportable in another company&#8217;s financial statements.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.15pt">The adjustment does not change the pattern of recognition of the Company&#8217;s insurance expense for the current year, but does reflect part, but not all, of an accounting concept&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#9702;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.11pt">For the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company adjusted income from continuing operations by $20.3 million to reflect unfavorable developments in its estimate of ultimate losses related to insurance reserves that occurred prior to November 1, 2024. It should be noted that such adjustment represented 3.2% of our total gross insurance claim reserves at October 31, 2024. It should also be noted that the Prior Year Adjustments for fiscal years 2023 and 2022 were favorable and resulted in insurance reserves reductions.  Accordingly, the Company has consistently made Prior Year Adjustments to its self-insurance reserve balance, whether the adjustments were favorable or unfavorable.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#9702;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.11pt">We believe the exclusion of these amounts is useful to shareholders as it provides additional insight into how management views the current operating results of the Company, rather than including positive or negative adjustments that related to the prior periods. These Prior Year Adjustments reflect developments of claims that could date back many years and are often influenced by unpredictable changes in regulatory, legal or medical trends that management has little ability to influence. As a result, these Prior Year Adjustments can also change in value significantly from period-to-period, including reversing positive or negative adjustments.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#9702;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.11pt">The Company further believes the exclusion of any Prior Year Adjustment from net income (loss) is useful to shareholders by enabling them to better assess our operating performance in the context of current fiscal year recognized revenues and profitability. </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.233%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:32.234%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"><div><img alt="imagea.jpg" src="imagea.jpg" style="height:71px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:152px"></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">One Liberty Plaza, 7</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:6.47pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;position:relative;top:-3.48pt;vertical-align:baseline">th</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%"> Floor</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">New York, N.Y. 10006</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Office&#58; (212) 297-0200</font></div><div style="text-align:right;text-indent:-54pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Fax&#58; (212) 297-0375</font></div></td></tr></table></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.15pt">The adjustment does not render the measure inconsistent with the underlying economics or ignore certain aspects of the economics&#58; </font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%">&#9702;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:107%;padding-left:14.11pt">As discussed above, a Prior Year Adjustment does not exclude any insurance expense incurred during the Company&#8217;s current fiscal year. Thus, any known trends that have impacted a Prior Year Adjustment are reflected in our current year operating performance results.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Accordingly, we believe our Prior Year Adjustment to income from continuing operations for the year ended October 31, 2024 does not result in misleading information or an individually tailored accounting measure that violates the principles of Question 100.04 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Disclosure Interpretations.</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">If you have any questions with respect to any of the information in this letter, please email me at earl.ellis&#64;abm.com</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Very truly yours,</font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">&#47;s&#47; Earl R. 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