INCOME TAXES

9 Months Ended

Jul. 27, 2025

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

INCOME TAXES

NOTE L - INCOME TAXES

The Company’s tax provision is determined using an estimated annual effective tax rate and adjusted for discrete taxable events that may occur during the quarter. The effects of tax legislation are recognized in the period in which the law is enacted. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are remeasured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years the related temporary differences are anticipated to reverse.

The Company’s effective tax rate was 22.3% and 21.7% for the quarter ended July 27, 2025, and July 28, 2024, respectively. The increase was primarily due to decreased benefits from the purchase of federal transferable energy credits compared to the prior year, offset in part by increased federal deductions and favorable return to provision adjustments in the current year. The Company’s effective tax rate was 22.1% and 22.6% for the nine months ended July 27, 2025, and July 28, 2024, respectively. The Company benefited from increased federal deductions compared to the prior year.

Unrecognized tax benefits, including interest and penalties, are primarily recorded in Other Long-term Liabilities. If recognized as of July 27, 2025, these benefits would impact the Company’s effective tax rate by $17.5 million compared to $17.2 million as of July 28, 2024. The Company includes accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in Provision for Income Taxes, with immaterial expenses included during the quarter ended July 27, 2025, and July 28, 2024. The amount of accrued interest and penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefits was $3.2 million at July 27, 2025, and $2.7 million at July 28, 2024.

Tax Examinations: The Company is regularly audited by federal, state, and foreign taxing authorities.

The IRS concluded its examination of fiscal 2022 in the second quarter of fiscal 2024. The IRS placed the Company in the Bridge phase of the Compliance Assurance Process (CAP) for fiscal years 2023 and 2024. In this phase, the IRS will not accept any disclosures, conduct any reviews, or provide any assurances. The Company has elected to participate in CAP through fiscal year 2026. The objective of CAP is to contemporaneously work with the IRS to achieve federal tax compliance and resolve all or most of the issues prior to filing of the tax return. The Company may elect to continue participating in CAP for future tax years; the Company may withdraw from the program at any time.

The Company is in various stages of audit by several state taxing authorities on a variety of fiscal years, as far back as 2015. While it is reasonably possible that one or more of these audits may be completed within the next 12 months and the related unrecognized tax benefits may change based on the status of the examinations, as of July 27, 2025, it was not possible to reasonably estimate the effect of any amount of such change to previously recorded uncertain tax positions.

The Company is subject to various examinations by foreign tax authorities. With limited exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to foreign tax examinations for fiscal years prior to 2018. See Note J - Commitments and Contingencies for additional information.

Tax Legislation: On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law. OBBBA includes income tax provisions such as a permanent extension of certain provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, elective deductions for domestic research and development, reinstatement of 100% first-year bonus depreciation, and modifications to the international tax framework. The Company assessed the provisions of OBBBA and determined the changes were not material to the Company's

tax provision for the quarter and nine months ended July 27, 2025, and does not expect a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements in future reporting periods.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development published a framework for Pillar Two of the Global Anti-Base Erosion Rules, which is designed to coordinate participating jurisdictions in updating the international tax system to ensure that large multinational companies pay a minimum tax of 15%. Many countries have enacted, or begun the process of enacting, laws based on the Pillar Two framework. The Company considered the applicable tax laws in relevant jurisdictions and concluded the impact of Pillar Two was not material to the Company's tax provision for the quarter and nine months ended July 27, 2025. The Company will continue to evaluate the impact of such legislative changes but does not expect the new tax laws to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements in future reporting periods.