EARNINGS PER SHARE DATA

9 Months Ended

Jul. 29, 2018

The reported net earnings attributable to the Company were used when computing basic and diluted earnings per share. The following table sets forth the shares used as the denominator for those computations:



	Three Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
(in thousands)	July 29, 2018	July 30, 2017	July 29, 2018	July 30, 2017
Basic weighted-average shares outstanding	530,606	528,165	529,953	528,487
Dilutive potential common shares	13,156	10,649	13,399	11,017
Diluted weighted-average shares outstanding	543,762	538,814	543,352	539,504

For the third quarter and nine months ended July 29, 2018, a total of 10.6 million and 7.6 million weighted-average stock options, respectively, were not included in the computation of dilutive potential common shares since their inclusion would have had an antidilutive effect on earnings per share, compared to 2.4 million and 3.4 million, respectively, for the third quarter and nine months ended July 30, 2017.