Condensed Consolidated and Combined Statements of Earnings (Parenthetical) shares in Billions	Nov. 01, 2015 shares
Former Parent Company
Shares distributed to shareholder (in shares)	1.8

Represents the number of the company shares distributed by former parent company to the former Parent company stockholders in a spinoff transaction

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