Income Taxes |
9 Months Ended |
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Jul. 31, 2026 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes | Income Taxes To determine our income tax expense or benefit for interim periods, consistent with accounting standards, we apply the estimated annual effective income tax rate to year-to-date results, plus any applicable discrete items, which are recorded in the period in which they occur. Discrete items include, among others, such events as changes in estimates due to the finalization of tax returns, tax audit settlements, expiration of statutes of limitations, tax benefits or expense of uncertain tax positions, tax benefits on equity compensation, and increases or decreases in valuation allowances on deferred tax assets. Our effective tax rates from continuing operations for the nine months ended July 31, 2026 and 2025 were 31.5% and 2.5%, respectively. The difference between our estimated annual effective income tax rate and the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% principally results from U.S. state taxes, a non-U.S. tax rate differential and other permanent differences. The increase in the 2026 effective tax rate compared to the prior year was primarily driven by $3.2 million of discrete items including equity-based compensation award activity, state deferred tax remeasurement from legal entity reorganization activities, changes in reserves for uncertain tax positions, as well as the absence of the impairment which occurred in the prior year. The primary discrete item affecting the 2025 effective rate was the benefit of $10.8 million related to the goodwill impairment which was not recognized for tax purposes. We evaluate the likelihood of realization of our deferred tax assets by considering both positive and negative evidence. We maintain a valuation allowance for certain state net operating losses which totaled $0.8 million as of July 31, 2026 and October 31, 2025, respectively. We also maintain a valuation allowance for capital losses which totaled $3.6 million as of July 31, 2026 and October 31, 2025, respectively. On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was enacted. The Act included several business tax provisions that impacted the Company, including a reclass of our income tax payable and deferred tax liability related to the timing differences on fixed assets depreciation.
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