REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2020

Temporary Equity Disclosure [Abstract]

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest [Table Text Block]

Management's estimate of the aggregate Redemption Amount of all Put Rights that the Company could be required to pay is as follows (in thousands):

	As of October 31,
	2020	2019
Redeemable at fair value	$179,415	$136,611
Redeemable based on a multiple of future earnings	41,793	51,653
Redeemable noncontrolling interests	$221,208	$188,264

Schedule of Put Rights [Table Text Block]

A summary of the Put Rights associated with the redeemable noncontrolling interests in certain of the Company’s subsidiaries as of October 31, 2020 is as follows:

Subsidiary Acquisition Year	Operating Segment	Company Ownership Interest	Earliest Put Right Year	Purchase Period (Years)
2005	ETG	95.9%	2021 (1)	4 (2)
2006	FSG	80.1%	2021 (1)	4
2008	FSG	86.2%	2024	4 (3)
2009	ETG	82.5%	2021 (1)	1
2012	FSG	84.0%	2021 (1)	4
2012	FSG	80.1%	2021 (1)	4
2015	FSG	85.0%	2021	3 (4)
2015	FSG	80.1%	2021 (1)	4
2015	FSG	80.1%	2022	4
2015	ETG	80.1%	2021 (1)	2
2017	FSG	80.1%	2022	2 (5)
2018	ETG	85.0%	2021	1
2019	ETG	92.7%	2023	4
2019	ETG	85.0%	2024	4
2019	FSG	80.1%	2026	4
2019	ETG	75.0%	2024	4 (6)
2020	ETG	80.1%	2025	4
2020	FSG	70.0%	2027	4
2020	ETG	75.0%	2024	4 (6)
2020	ETG	90.0%	2025	4

(1)    Currently puttable.

(2)    A portion is to be purchased in a lump sum.

(3)    Based on the Put Right exercised in fiscal 2020, 3.8% of the noncontrolling interest will be acquired by the Company in fiscal 2021 and the Put Right for the remaining 10% interest may be exercised no earlier than fiscal 2024 to cause the Company to purchase the noncontrolling interest over a four-year period.

(4)    The Put Right for the remaining 15% noncontrolling interest may be exercised in 5% increments annually beginning in fiscal 2021.

(5)     Half of the 19.9% noncontrolling interest will be purchased in the year the Put Right is exercised and the other half will be purchased two years later.

(6)     The exercise of the Put Right for either entity will automatically trigger a Put Right exercise for the other entity.