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Earnings per Share (EPS) and Common Stock
9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Earnings Per Share And Common Stock [Abstract]  
Earnings per Share (EPS) and Common Stock

4. Earnings per Share (EPS) and Common Stock

EPS

The following table presents the calculation for both basic and diluted EPS:

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

Three months ended

 

 

Nine months ended

 

 

 

June 30, 2026

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

 

June 30, 2026

 

 

June 30, 2025

 

Net income

 

$

118,780

 

 

$

141,328

 

 

$

876,021

 

 

$

386,204

 

Weighted-average shares outstanding—Basic

 

 

114,677

 

 

 

119,913

 

 

 

117,401

 

 

 

120,106

 

Dilutive effect of restricted stock units

 

 

301

 

 

 

548

 

 

 

443

 

 

 

709

 

Weighted-average shares outstanding—Diluted

 

 

114,978

 

 

 

120,461

 

 

 

117,844

 

 

 

120,815

 

Earnings per share—Basic

 

$

1.04

 

 

$

1.18

 

 

$

7.46

 

 

$

3.22

 

Earnings per share—Diluted

 

$

1.03

 

 

$

1.17

 

 

$

7.43

 

 

$

3.20

 

There were 0.8 million and 0.1 million anti-dilutive shares for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2026, respectively. There were 0.4 million and 0.0 million anti-dilutive shares for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2025, respectively.

Common Stock Repurchases

Our Articles of Organization authorize us to issue up to 500 million shares of our common stock. Our Board of Directors has authorized us to repurchase up to $2 billion of our common stock in the period October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026 (the “current authorization”), and up to $2 billion of our common stock in the period October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2028. The amount remaining under the current authorization for repurchases as of June 30, 2026 is set forth in Part II, Item 2 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds of this Quarterly Report.

On March 17, 2026, we entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement ("ASR") with a major financial institution ("Bank") to repurchase $375 million of our outstanding common stock as a part of our existing share repurchase program. The ASR was funded with proceeds from the Kepware and ThingWorx divestiture. Upon execution of the ASR, we paid the Bank $375 million and received an initial delivery of 1.9 million shares, which represented 80% ($300 million) of the value of the ASR contract.

The remaining $75 million represented the amount held back by the Bank pending final settlement of the ASR, which occurred in June 2026 and resulted in the additional delivery of 0.8 million shares. The total shares repurchased under the ASR equaled $375 million divided by the average daily volume weighted-average price of our common stock during the term of the ASR less a fixed per-share discount. Settlement could have occurred in cash or shares at our election. We accounted for the ASR as an equity transaction; accordingly, this $75 million was recorded as a reduction to Additional paid-in capital in the second quarter of 2026.

In addition to the ASR repurchases described above, in the third quarter and first nine months of 2026, we repurchased 4.3 million shares for $525 million and 7.0 million shares for $975 million, respectively, through open market transactions. In the first nine months of 2026, we also paid $1.1 million in excise taxes related to share repurchases. In the third quarter and first nine months of 2025, we repurchased 0.4 million shares for $75 million and 1.3 million shares for $225 million, respectively, through open market transactions.

All shares repurchased are automatically restored to the status of authorized and unissued.