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Stock-Based Compensation - Stock Option Activity (Details) - Options - $ / shares | 12 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2024 | Apr. 30, 2023
Estimated weighted average fair value for options granted and significant weighted average assumptions used [Abstract] |  |
Weighted average fair value of options on grant date (in dollars per share) | $ 6.47 | $ 9.24
Weighted Average Assumptions [Abstract] |  |
Expected life of options (years) | 6 years 3 months 18 days | 5 years 10 months 24 days
Risk-free interest rate | 4.60% | 2.00%
Expected volatility | 34.00% | 32.40%
Expected dividend yield | 4.60% | 3.40%
Fair value of common stock on grant date (in dollars per share) | $ 30.37 | $ 41.30
Exercise price of stock option grant (in dollars per share) | $ 34.86 | $ 41.30

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- Definition Agreed-upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset relating to the share-based payment award. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(iii) -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147480429/718-10-50-2 + Details
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- Definition The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(ii) -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147480429/718-10-50-2 + Details
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- Definition The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(iv) -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147480429/718-10-50-2 + Details
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- Definition The weighted average grant-date fair value of options granted during the reporting period as calculated by applying the disclosed option pricing methodology. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (d)(1) -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147480429/718-10-50-2 + Details
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