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Share Repurchases
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Dec. 31, 2012
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| Share Repurchases |
Share Repurchases
In February 2010, the Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program (the “February 2010 authorization”) whereby the Company may repurchase up to an aggregate of $10.0 million of its outstanding Class A Common Stock. During the three and nine months ended December 31, 2011, 1.8 million and 4.4 million shares were repurchased under the February 2010 authorization with a weighted-average per share purchase price of $2.09 and $2.76, respectively. Repurchases in the nine months ended December 31, 2011 include the May 31, 2011 purchase of 1,000,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock, including 618,664 shares that were converted from the Company’s Class B Common Stock. These shares were purchased from the beneficiaries of a voting trust, dated February 23, 1994 (the “Voting Trust”), and from the beneficiaries of other trusts associated with certain family members of Messrs. Robert C. Penny III and Robert W. Foskett. Messrs Penny and Foskett currently are members of the Company’s Board of Directors. They also serve as co-trustees and are beneficiaries of the Voting Trust. The Company paid a total of $3.4 million or approximately $3.43 per share, which represented the volume weighted-average price of the Company's Class A Common Stock for the three daily trading sessions on May 23, 24 and 25, 2011, as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The February 2010 authorization was fully utilized as of November 2011.
In August 2011, the Board of Directors authorized an additional share repurchase program whereby the Company may repurchase up to an aggregate of $20.0 million of its outstanding Class A Common Stock (the “August 2011 authorization”). During the three and nine months ended December 31, 2012, approximately 1.4 million and 5.6 million shares were repurchased under the August 2011 authorization with a weighted-average per share purchase price of $2.04 and $2.20, respectively. There was approximately $0.1 million remaining for additional share repurchases under this program as of December 31, 2012.
Additionally, in the nine months ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company repurchased 124,404 and 113,734 shares of Class A Common Stock, respectively, from certain executives that were surrendered to satisfy the minimum statutory tax withholding obligations on the vesting of restricted stock units and performance-based restricted stock units. These repurchases are not included in the authorized share repurchase program and had a weighted-average purchase price of $2.36 and $3.52 per share, respectively. There were no share repurchases outside of the authorized share repurchase program during the three months ended December 31, 2012 and 2011.
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