Employee Stock Plans

3 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2013

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

As of December 29, 2013, there were 56.0 million shares of common stock available for issuance pursuant to future equity-based compensation awards and 7.7 million shares available for issuance under our employee stock purchase plan.

Stock-based compensation expense recognized in the consolidated statements of earnings (in millions):



	Quarter Ended
	Dec 29, 2013		Dec 30, 2012
Options	$	12.8	$	11.9
Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”)	35.0		25.5
Total stock-based compensation	$	47.8	$	37.4

Stock option and RSU transactions from September 29, 2013 through December 29, 2013 (in millions):



	Stock Options			RSUs
Options outstanding/Nonvested RSUs, September 29, 2013	22.0			5.8
Granted	2.8			2.3
Options exercised/RSUs vested	(2.2		)	(2.4		)
Forfeited/expired	(0.1		)	(0.1		)
Options outstanding/Nonvested RSUs, December 29, 2013	22.5			5.6
Total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense, net of estimated forfeitures, as of December 29, 2013	$	59.5		$	184.2

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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