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Set Up E-mail Alerts For Stock Buybacks » RSS Feed For Stock Buybacks »Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE: CCL) announces that Carnival Investments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, intends to sell up to 25,000,000 existing Carnival plc ordinary shares that it holds in the UK market.
Carnival Corporation & plc intend to use the net proceeds of the Carnival plc Share Sales to repurchase Carnival Corporation common stock on at least an equivalent basis in the U.S. market, and to use the remaining net proceeds, if any, for general corporate purposes. Carnival Corporation & plc only intends to trade where it will derive an economic benefit from the Carnival plc Share Sales and Carnival Corporation Stock Repurchase program.
The Carnival plc Share Sales and Carnival Corporation Stock Repurchase program will be run in conjunction with the previously announced Carnival plc Share Repurchase and Carnival Corporation Stock Issuance program. Only one of the programs will be operated by Carnival Corporation & plc at any given time.
UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE: UMH) renewed its approval of a share repurchase program that authorizes the Company to purchase up to $10 million in the aggregate of the Company's common stock. The Board of Directors initially approved a share repurchase program on June 17, 2008. To date, no shares have been repurchased.
With its fourth quarter earnings report today, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) disclosed that during fiscal 2009 the company repurchased 20 million shares of common stock at an average price of $64. During the first nine months of 2009, GIS repurchased 18.9 million of these shares.
Shares of GIS clsoed up 3.9% today to $58.18 following solid Q4 results and FY10 guidance.
Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) announced the preliminary results of its previously announced modified "Dutch Auction" tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.
Based on the preliminary count by the depositary for the tender offer, Quest expects to purchase approximately 6,850,871 shares in the tender offer, at a price of $14.00 per share, for a total cost of approximately $96 million, excluding fees and expenses related to the tender offer.
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The approximately 6,850,871 shares expected to be purchased in the tender offer represent approximately 7.23% of the shares outstanding on June 29, 2009. These results reflect that a total of approximately 6,850,871 shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn at a price of $14.00 or less per share.
The number of shares to be purchased and the price per share under the tender offer are preliminary. Final results will be determined subject to confirmation by the depositary of the proper delivery of the shares validly tendered and not withdrawn.
Nathan's Famous, Inc. (NASDAQ: NATH) announced that its Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to 500,000 shares of its common stock on behalf of the Company.
Nathan's separately announced that it entered into an agreement pursuant to which it acquired 238,129 of the shares authorized to be purchased under the stock purchase program.
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