Employee Stock Plans

3 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2014

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

As of December 28, 2014, there were 47.2 million shares of common stock available for issuance pursuant to future equity-based compensation awards and 7.3 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 28, 2014		Dec 29, 2013
Options	$	12.5	$	12.8
Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”)	39.4		35.0
Total stock-based compensation	$	51.9	$	47.8

Stock option and RSU transactions from September 28, 2014 through December 28, 2014 (in millions):



	Stock Options			RSUs
Options outstanding/Nonvested RSUs, September 28, 2014	19.8			5.4
Granted	2.9			3.1
Options exercised/RSUs vested	(2.1		)	(2.4		)
Forfeited/expired	(0.2		)	(0.2		)
Options outstanding/Nonvested RSUs, December 28, 2014	20.4			5.9
Total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense, net of estimated forfeitures, as of December 28, 2014	$	53.2		$	230.1

- 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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