Segment Data

3 Months Ended

Jan. 28, 2022

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Data

3 Segment Data

The company's businesses are organized, managed, and internally grouped into segments based on similarities in products and services. Segment selection is based on the manner in which the company's chief operating decision maker organizes segments for making operating and investment decisions and assessing performance. The company has identified twelve operating segments and has aggregated certain of those operating segments into two reportable segments: Professional and Residential. The aggregation of the company's segments is based on the segments having the following similarities: economic characteristics, types of products and services, types of production processes, type or class of customers, and method of distribution. The company's remaining activities are presented as "Other" due to their insignificance. The company's Other activities consist of the company's wholly-owned domestic distribution company, the company's corporate activities, and the elimination of intersegment revenues and expenses.

The following tables present summarized financial information concerning the company’s reportable business segments and Other activities (in thousands):

Three Months Ended January 28, 2022	Professional		Residential		Other		Total
Net sales	$	672,885	$	255,402	$	4,363	$	932,650
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations)	5,417		15		(5,432)		—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	93,272		31,760		(37,885)		87,147
Total assets	$	2,486,201	$	444,549	$	322,295	$	3,253,045

Three Months Ended January 29, 2021	Professional		Residential		Other		Total
Net sales	$	650,223	$	217,700	$	5,063	$	872,986
Intersegment gross sales (eliminations)	6,642		16		(6,658)		—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes	116,816		32,108		(13,098)		135,826
Total assets	$	1,952,536	$	345,185	$	577,417	$	2,875,138

The following table presents the details of operating loss before income taxes for the company's Other activities:

	Three Months Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	January 28, 2022		January 29, 2021
Corporate expenses	$	(32,828)	$	(11,303)
Interest expense	(7,013)		(7,522)
Earnings from wholly-owned domestic distribution companies and other income, net	1,956		5,727
Total operating loss	$	(37,885)	$	(13,098)