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SUBSIDIARY SHARE REPURCHASE | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 30, 2011
SUBSIDIARY SHARE REPURCHASE [Abstract] |
SUBSIDIARY SHARE REPURCHASE | NOTE 15 – SUBSIDIARY SHARE REPURCHASE During fiscal year 2011, the board of directors of PSMC, a subsidiary of the Company based in Taiwan, authorized PSMC to repurchase for retirement shares of its outstanding common stock on the open market. The repurchase programs, the last of which expired in October 2011, resulted in 21.6 million shares being repurchased for $9.9 million. PSMC's repurchase of these shares increased the Company's ownership of PSMC from 57.53% at October 31, 2010, to 62.25% at October 30, 2011. The tables below present the effect of the change in Photronics, Inc.'s ownership interest in PSMC on the Company's equity for fiscal years ended October 30, 2011, October 31, 2010 and November 1, 2009.
|  | Year Ended |
|  | October 30, 2011 |  |  | October 31, 2010 |  |  | November 1, 2009 |
Net income (loss) attributable to Photronics, Inc. |  | $ | 16,229 |  |  | $ | 23,922 |  |  | $ | (41,910 | )
Decrease in Photronics, Inc.'s additional paid-in capital for PSMC's repurchase of 21.6 million shares of its common stock |  |  | (201 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Change from net income (loss) attributable to Photronics, Inc. and transfer to noncontrolling interest |  | $ | 16,028 |  |  | $ | 23,922 |  |  | $ | (41,910 | )

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