Thursday's Buybacks: Chemed for $50 Million More

The following are stock buybacks announced over the past 30 days.

(Interested in learning more about buybacks and why they're important? Check out this article.)

COMPANY	SYMBOL	AMOUNT	NOTES
8/2/2006
Credit Acceptance Corp.	CACC	$25 mln	adds to prior plan
Digital Insight Corp.	DGIN	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Florida Rock Industries	FRK	$200 mln	including prior plan
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	PESI	$2 mln	45.78 mln shares outstanding
Starbucks Corp.	SBUX	25 mln shares	adds to prior plan
8/1/2006
Blue Nile Inc.	NILE	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Document Sciences Corp.	DOCX	$1 mln	over 1 year
Equity One Inc.	EQY	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Nabors Industries	NBR	$500 mln
NutriSystem	NTRI	$50 mln	36.3 mln shares outstanding
Symbol Technologies	SBL	$200 mln
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates	VSEA	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Vertrue	VTRU	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
7/28/2006
Christopher & Banks Corp.	CBK	$20 mln	over 2 years
Cymer Inc.	CYMI	$150 mln	41.2 mln shares outstanding
MTC Technologies	MTCT	$10 mln
Waste Management Inc.	WMI	$350 mln
7/27/2006
Chemed Corp.	CHE	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Cognex Corp.	CGNX	$100 mln
Hasbro, Inc.	HAS	$350 mln	prior plan complete
Nutraceutical International Corp.	NUTR	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Provident Financial Services, Inc.	PFS	5% of outstanding	3.3 mln shares
STERIS Corp.	STE	3 mln shares	replaces prior plan
Thomas & Betts Corp.	TNB	3 mln shares	over 2 years
7/26/2006
Advent Software Inc.	ADVS	1.5 mln shares	28 mln shares outstanding
Affiliated Managers Group Inc.	AMG	5% of outstanding	adds to prior plan
Ameristar Casinos, Inc.	ASCA	2.8 mn shares	5% of outstanding
Cigna Corp.	CI	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Cintas Corp.	CTAS	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
CRA International	CRAI	500,000 shares	11.67 mln shares outstanding
CyberOptics Corp.	CYBE	500,000 shares	over 1 year
Intergraph Corp.	INGR	$79 mln	adds to prior plan
NetScout Systems, Inc.	NTCT	3 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Southern Community Financial Corp.	SCMF	1 mln shares
Supervalu Inc.	SVU	10 mln shares	through May, 2007
7/25/2006
Agere Systems	AGR	$200 mln
Charles Schwab Corp.	SCHW	$500 mln	prior plan complete
ChoicePoint Inc.	CPS	$250 mln	adds to prior plan
Ethan Allen Interiors	ETH	2.5 mln shares
Gannett Co.	GCI	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
Guaranty Federal Bancshares	GFED	250,000 shares	8.5% of outstanding
HouseValues, Inc.	SOLD	2 mln shares
Labor Ready Inc.	LRW	$50 mln	prior plan complete
Linear Technology Corp.	LLTC	20 mln shares	over 2 years
Sohu.com Inc.	SOHU	$15 mln	adds to prior plan
United Parcel Service	UPS	$2 bln	1.1 bln shares outstanding
Woodward Governor Co.	WGOV	$50 mln	replaces prior plan
7/24/2006
Bank of Hawaii	BOH	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Catalina Marketing Corp.	POS	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
CKE Restaurants, Inc.	CKR	$30 mln	adds to prior plan
Motorola, Inc.	MOT	$4.5 bln	adds to prior plan
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	340,000 shares	over 6 months
7/21/2006
First National Lincoln Corp.	FNLC	250,000 shares	2.5% of outstanding
Ohio Valley Banc Corp.	OVBC	175,000 shares	over 6 months
PMI Group Inc	PMI	$400 mln	prior plan complete
7/20/2006
Black & Decker Corp.	BDK	8 mln shares	10% of outstanding
Canadian National Railway Co.	CNI	28 mln	5.3% of outstanding
Coca-Cola	KO	300 mln shares	13% of outstanding
Microsoft Corp.	MSFT	$40 bln
Occidental Petroleum Corp.	OXY	20 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Origin Agritech Ltd.	SEED	$10 mln	over 12 months
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	$157.9 mln	over 1 year
Universal Health Services	UHS	5 mln shares
7/19/2006
Commercial Metals Co.	CMC	5 mln shares	prior plan complete
eBay Inc	EBAY	$2 bln	over 2 years
Foundation Coal Holdings Inc.	FCL	$100 mln
Juniper Networks, Inc.	JNPR	$1 bln
OceanFirst Financial Corp.	OCFC	615,883 shares	5% of outstanding
Teradyne Inc.	TER	$400 mln
Tompkins Trustco	TMP	450,000 shares	replaces prior plan
7/18/2006
Applied Industrial Technologies	AIT	1.5 mln shares	replaces prior plan
Costco Wholesale Corp.	COST	$2 bln	adds to prior plan
CSG Systems International	CSGS	$350 mln	adds to prior plan
CSX Corp.	CSX	$500 mln	over 12 months
Kearny Financial Corp.	KRNY	1.09 mln shares	5% of outstanding
Slade's Ferry Bancorp	SFBC	5% of outstanding	208,036 shares
Toro Co.	TTC	3 mln shares	adds to prior plan
7/17/2006
ADTRAN, Inc.	ADTN	5 mln shares	upon completion of prior plan
American Woodmark Corp.	AMWD	$20 mln	adds to prior plan
Ituran Location and Control Ltd.	ITRN	$10 mln	23.3 mln shares outstanding
Law Enforcement Associates	AID	$100,000	over 12 months
Pactiv Corp.	PTV	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Stanley Furniture Co.	STLY	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
7/14/2006
Capital Crossing Bank	CAPX	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Paragon Technologies	PTG	$2 mln	adds to prior plan
7/13/2006
International Paper	IP	$3 bln	20% of outstanding
Jeffersonville Bancorp, Inc.	JFBC	50,000 shares	adds to prior plan
7/12/2006
Eaton Vance	EV	8 mln shares
General American Investors	GAM	400,000 shares	adds to prior plan
7/11/2006
Century Bancorp Inc.	CNBKA	300,000 shares	9% of outstanding
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.	CLF	2 mln shares	prior plan complete
Cummins Inc.	CMI	2 mln shares	prior plan complete
Mirant Corp.	MIR	$1.25 bln	300.2 mln shares outstanding
7/10/2006
Audiovox Corporation	VOXX	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Franklin Resources, Inc.	BEN	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Simple Tech	STEC	$10 mln	over 18 months
7/06/2006
Acuity Brands Inc.	AYI	2 mln shares	4.5% of outstanding
City National Corp.	CYN	1.5 mln shares	prior plan nearly complete
Laidlaw International, Inc.	LI	$500 mln
Sunoco	SUN	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
7/05/2006
Yadkin Valley Financial Corp.	YAVY	100,000 shares
6/30/2006
First Community Corp.	FCCO	150,000 shares	4.5% of outstanding
6/29/2006
AFC Enterprises	AFCE	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
CA, Inc.	CA	$2 bln	through March, 2007
Circuit City Stores	CC	$400 mln	adds to prior plan
Computer Sciences Corp.	CSC	$2 bln
Limited Brands	LTD	$100 mln	upon completion of prior plan
6/28/2006
Bottomline Technologies Inc.	EPAY	$10 mln	24 mls shares outstandindg
Cigna Corp.	CI	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Genesco	GCO	$20 mln
Jabil Circuit	JBL	$200 mln	over 1 year
Pinnacle Bancshares, Inc.	PLE	73,900 shares	5% of outstanding
6/27/2006
BB&T Corp.	BBT	50 mln shares	adds to prior plan
CorVel Corp.	CRVL	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Wells Fargo and Co.	WFC	25 mln shares	1.7 bln shares outstanding
6/26/2006
Energen Corp.	EGN	9 mln shares	adds to prior plan
First American Corp.	FAF	$300 mln	adds to prior plan
Thor Industries	THO	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
6/23/2006
Linktone Ltd.	LTON	$20 mln	prior plan complete
NVR Inc.	NVR	$300 mln	5.75 mln shares
6/22/2006
Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.	AACC	2.5 mln shares	6.7% of outstanding
First Cash Financial Services	FCFS	2 mln shares	prior plan complete
Health Grades	HGRD	3 mln shares	28.5 mln shares outstanding
Mentor Corp.	MNT	1.7 mln shares	adds to prior plan
6/21/2006
Best Buy	BBY	$1.5 bln	replaces prior plan
Books-A-Million	BAMM	$10 mln	replaces prior plan
Hudson City Bancorp	HCBK	56,975,000 shares	10% of outstanding
Parkvale Financial Corp.	PVSA	283,400 shares	5% of outstanding
6/20/2006
Euroweb International Corp.	EWEB	700,000 shares	over 6 months
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	12 mln shares	3.6% of outstanding
Pemier Global Services, Inc.	PGI	7 mln shares	prior plan complete
White Electronic Designs Corp.	WEDC	5% of outstanding	24.6 mln shares outstanding
6/19/2006
Avocent	AVCT	3 mln shares	expands prior plan
California Pizza Kitchen	CPK	$30 mln	adds to prior plan
Gymboree	GYMB	$55 mln	adds to prior plan
Nike	NIKE	$3 bln	over 4 years
Value Click	VCLK	$50 mln	5.7 mln shares outstanding
Source: The Online Investor