Latest Share repurchase Stories

-- Authorization to repurchase up to 10 percent of shares outstanding ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE: LYB) today announced that at its Annual General Meeting, shareholders approved a proposal to authorize the company to repurchase up to 10 percent of the company's outstanding stock. As a result, the Supervisory Board has approved a share repurchase program of up to 10 percent of the company's shares over the next 12...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today that its board of directors has authorized an additional $4 billion for the repurchase of the company's common stock. With today's authorization, the company's outstanding share repurchase authorizations total approximately $5 billion. Northrop Grumman currently plans to repurchase shares with the goal of retiring approximately 25 percent of its shares outstanding by the...

CHICAGO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT) today announced a 29 percent increase in its quarterly dividend. The Company's Board of Directors declared its second quarter 2013 cash dividend of $0.09 per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend will be payable on June 11, 2013 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 28, 2013. "Today's announcement underscores our confidence that our long-term growth and 4G strategy will continue to...

FRISCO, Texas, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comstock Resources, Inc. ("Comstock" or the "Company") (NYSE: CRK) announced today that its Board of Directors declared its first dividend payable to its stockholders and has approved an open market share repurchase plan following the divestiture of the Company's West Texas oil and gas properties. As announced yesterday, Comstock completed the divestiture of it West Texas oil and gas properties which generated $808 million in net...

Declared 147th Consecutive Quarterly Dividend DALLAS, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) (the "Company") returns value to Shareholders. Southwest Airlines' Board of Directors, at its meeting held today, significantly increased the Company's quarterly dividend to $.04 per share from $.01 per share. Annualized, this amounts to over $100 million. The increase in the quarterly dividend will begin with the 147(th) consecutive quarterly dividend declared...

WESTBROOK, Maine, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase by the Company of up to an additional 4.0 million shares of its common stock under its ongoing share repurchase program. Repurchases may be made in the open market (including through Rule 10b5-1 plans) or in negotiated transactions. These shares are in addition to the 2,226,420 shares remaining under the Company's share...

AMSTERDAM, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the provider of Internet and mobile security, privacy and optimization to 150 million active users, today announced that it has adopted a share repurchase program under which AVG intends to repurchase shares to cover its obligations to deliver shares under its employee stock options incentive and restricted share units plans. Under the repurchase program AVG may repurchase up to 2,500,000 ordinary shares. "Our...

LIVONIA, Mich., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Valassis (NYSE: VCI), a leader in intelligent media delivery, announced today that our Board of Directors approved an increase to our stock repurchase program authorization by 6.0 million shares of our common stock. As of March 31, 2013, we had approximately 1.6 million shares available for repurchase under the prior authorization. During the first quarter of 2013, we repurchased $21.2 million, or 725,512 shares, of our common stock at an...

MONETT, Mo., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY) today announced its Board of Directors increased the quarterly cash dividend by fifty-four percent (54%) to $.20 per share. The cash dividend on its common stock, par value $.01 per share, is payable on May 30, 2013, to stockholders of record as of May 17, 2013. At April 30, 2013, there were 86,112,301 shares of the common stock outstanding. Its Board of Directors also increased the...

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Radware(R) (NASDAQ: RDWR), a global leader of application delivery [http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and application security [http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ] solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced that its board of directors has authorized a share repurchase plan allowing the repurchase of up to $40 million of ordinary shares....