Wednesday's Buybacks: LCA-Vision 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
11/22/2006
LCA-Vision Inc.	LCAV	$50 mln	prior plan complete
11/21/2006
Dollar Tree Stores	DLTR	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Odyssey HealthCare Inc.	ODSY	$10 mln	over 12 months
Spark Networks	LOV	2 mln share	over 18 months
Washington Group International	WGII	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
11/20/2006
American Woodmark Corp.	AMWD	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Aon Corp.	AOC	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
Papa John's International	PZZA	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Steel Dynamics Inc.	STLD	2.5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.	AMTD	20 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Timberland Bancorp	TSBK	5% of outstanding	186,266 shares
Varian Medical Systems	VAR	4.5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Xerox Corp.	XRX	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
11/17/2006
Charter Financial Corp.	CHFN	1 mln shares	tender offer
Commerce Group Inc.	CGI	3.5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Frontier Oil Corp.	FTO	$100 mln	prior plan complete
Tri-Continental Corp.	TY	5% of outstanding	Jan-Dec 2007
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	858,000 shares	5% of outstanding
11/16/2006
Arbitron Inc.	ARB	$100 mln	prior plan complete
Barrett Business Services	BBSI	500,000 shares
Kronos Inc.	KRON	1.25 mln shares	adds to prior plan
OMI Corp.	OMM	$140 mln	adds to prior plan
Seacor Holdings Inc.	CKH	$75 mln	including prior plan
Southwest Airlines	LUV	$400 mln	prior plan complete
11/15/2006
Cisco	CSCO	$7 bln	adds to prior plan
Comerica Inc.	CMA	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
DeVry Inc.	DV	$35 mln	over 2 years
Great Southern Bancorp Inc.	GSBC	700,000 shares	replaces prior plan
InPhonic	INPC	$30 mln
Marchex Inc.	MCHX	3 mln shares
Network Appliance Inc.	NTAP	$800 mln	adds to prior plan
Pall Corp.	PLL	$250 mln	adds to prior plan
11/14/2006
Applebee's International Inc.	APPB	$150 mln	adds to prior plan
Benjamin Franklin Bancorp	BFBC	412,490 shares	5% of outstanding
Encore Wire Corp.	WIRE	1 mln shares	replaces prior plan
Perceptron Inc.	PRCP	$2 mln	adds to prior plan
PrimeEnergy Corp.	PNRG	300,000 shares	adds to prior plan
Prudential Financial	PRU	$3 bln	through 2007
11/13/2006
Black Box Corp.	BBOX	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
China Medical Technologies	CMED	$30 mln
Lawson Software	LWSN	$100 mln	186.4 mln shares outstanding
Pool Corp.	POOL	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Sonic	SONC	$75 mln	adds to prior plan
Vignette	VIGN	$75 mln	over one year
11/10/2006
Air T Inc.	AIRT	$2 mln
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	$600 mln	upon completion of prior plan
CorVel Corp.	CRVL	200,000 shares	adds to prior plan
11/09/2006
Ambassadors Group Inc.	EPAX	$11 mln	adds to prior plan
Amcol International Corp.	ACO	$15 mln	over 2 years
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas	FFBH	5% of outstanding	prior plan complete
Hydril	HYDL	$150 mln
Radian Group Inc.	RDN	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
SureWest Communications	SURW	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
11/08/2006
Frozen Food Express Industries	FFEX	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Orbotech Ltd.	ORBK	1.7 mln shares
PetMed Express Inc.	PETS	$20 mln	24.2 mln shares outstanding
11/07/2006
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	5.16 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Excel Technology Inc.	XLTC	2 mln shares	16.6% of outstanding
PDI Inc.	PDII	1 mln shares	prior plan terminated
Schnitzer Steel Industries	SCHN	4.7 mln shares	15% of outstanding
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	$600 mln
Universal Compression Holdings	UCO	$200 mln	Until Nov 2008
11/06/2006
CheckFree	CKFR	$100 mln	through Aug 2007
Liberty Media	LCAPA	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
Nashua	NSHA	500,000 shares	6.3 mln shares outstanding
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	10 mln shares	over 4 years
TXU	TXU	20 mln shares	adds to prior plan
11/03/2006
C&F Financial Corp.	CFFI	150,000 shares	prior plan complete
Medco Haelth Solutions	MHS	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
Span-America Medical Systems	SPAN	100,000 shares
W.R. Berkley	BER	20 mln shares	adds to prior plan
11/02/2006
Canterbury Park Holding Corp.	ECP	100,000 shares	4 mln shares outstanding
CBS Corp.	CBS	$1.5 bln
Safeco	SAFC	15 mln shares	including prior plan
11/01/2006
Citrix Systems Inc.	CTXS	$300 mln	adds to prior plan
Fair Isaac Corp.	FIC	$500 mln	replaces prior plan
Manpower Inc.	MAN	5 mln shares
Robert Half International	RHI	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Unitrin Inc.	UTR	6 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Valhi Inc.	VHI	5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
10/31/2006
ASV Inc.	ASVI	$50 mln	over 3 years
Captaris Inc.	CAPA	$8 mln	adds to prior plan
IAC Interactive Corp.	IACI	60 mln shares	adds to prior plan
International Business Machines	IBM	$4 bln	adds to prior plan
United States Steel Corporation	X	8 mln shares	replaces prior plan
10/30/2006
Arctic Cat Inc.	ACAT	$20 mln	adds to prior plan
CyberKey Solutions Inc.	CKYS	$1 mln	over 6 months
Holly Corp.	HOC	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Republic Services Inc.	RSG	$250 mln	adds to prior plan
10/27/2006
Alexander & Baldwin Inc.	ALEX	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
American Physicians Capital	ACAP	$32 mln	adds to prior plan
Avery Dennison	AVY	5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
BFC Financial Corp.	BFF	1.75 mln shares	5% of outstanding
Exar Corp.	EXAR	$16 mln	adds to prior plan
Home Properties Inc.	HME	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
ITT Corp.	ITT	$1 bln	over 3 years
MTC Technologies Inc.	MTCT	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Red Hat Inc.	RHAT	$250 mln
10/26/2006
American Greetings Corp.	AM	$100 mln
BankUnited Financial Corp.	BKUNA	3 mln shares
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.	COG	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
ChoicePoint	CPS	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Cigna Corp.	CI	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Dow Chemical Co.	DOW	$2 bln	upon completion of prior plan
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
GlaxoSmithKline PLC	GSK	$11.3 bln	over 3 years
Hub Group Inc.	HUBG	$75 mln	through June '08
Interactive Data Corp.	IDC	2 mln shares	prior plan complete
10/25/2006
Centennial Bank Holdings	CBHI	2.5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	$200 mln
Fidelity National Title Group	FNT	25 mln shares	over 3 years
Financial Institutions Inc.	FISI	$5 mln	over 1 year
Kennametal Inc.	KMT	3.3 mln shares	38.6 mln shares outstanding
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	10 mln shares
10/24/2006
Goodrich Corp.	GRP	$300 mlnover 3 years	over 18 months
Keane Inc.	KEA	3 mln shares	over 12 months
Laboratory Corporation of America	LH	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Lone Star Technologies	LSS	$100 mln	through 2007
10/23/2006
Petroleum Development Corp.	PETD	10% of outstanding	over 18 months
S1 Corp.	SONE	15% of outstanding	about $55 mln
United Therapeutics Corp.	UTHR	4 mln shares	over 2 years
Valero Energy Corp.	VLO	$2 bln	adds to prior plan
Waste Connections, Inc.	WCN	$200 mln	adds to prior plan
10/20/2006
Pfizer, Inc.	PFE	$10 bln	through 2007
10/19/2006
American Bancorp of New Jersey	ABNJ	10% of outstanding
Central Valley Community Bancorp	CVCY	$1 mln	through June '07
Grant Prideco, Inc.	GRP	$200 mln	adds to prior plan
TradeStation Group, Inc.	TRAD	$60 mln	aver 4 years
10/18/2006
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	$2.5 bln
Allstate Corp.	ALL	$3 bln	upon completion of prior plan
MASSBANK Corp.	MASB	50,000 shares	adds to prior plan
Valspar Corp.	VAL	4 mln shares	replaces prior plan
10/17/2006
Merrill Lynch & Co.	MER	$5 bln	adds to prior plan
Northern Trust Corporation	NTRS	11 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Yahoo! Inc.	YHOO	$3 bln	over 5 years
10/16/2006
Grainger	GWW	10 mln shares	86 mln shares outstanding
Health Net, Inc.	HNT	$235 mln	adds to prior plan
10/13/2006
Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.	JTX	$200 mln	prior plan complete
PRB Energy Inc.	PRB	10% of shares	through 2006
10/12/2006
Standard Parking Corp.	STAN	$12.5 mln	adds to prior plan
Wendy's	WEN	35.4 mln shares	over 18-24 months
10/11/2006
CKE Restaurants Inc.	CKR	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Chaparral Steel Company	CHAP	$100 mln
10/9/2006
Manatron Inc.	MANA	$1 mln	replaces prior plan
XETA Technologies Inc.	XETA	$960,000	per year
10/6/2006
Steelcase Inc.	SCS	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
10/5/2006
American Standard Companies	ASD	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
10/4/2006
Qwest Communications International Inc.	Q	$2 bln	over 2 years
10/3/2006
Alcan Inc.	AL	5% of outstanding	starting Nov, 2006
Alliance Data Systems	ADS	$600 mln	adds to prior plan
etrials Worldwide, Inc.	ETWC	$1 mln	12.4 mln shares outstanding
Hastings Entertainment, Inc.	HAST	$2.5 mln	adds to prior plan
World Acceptance Corp.	WRLD	$55 mln	replaces prior plan
10/2/2006
Bank of Marin	BMRC	10% of outstanding	over 12 months
STEN Corp.	STEN	200,000 shares	10% of outstanding
9/29/2006
Aetna Inc.	AET	$750 mln	adds to prior plan
Ohio Casualty Corp.	OCAS	$100 mln
9/28/2006
ConAgra Foods Inc.	CAG	$500 mln	adds to prior plan
Jaclyn, Inc.	JLN	125,000 shares	adds to prior plan
Lockheed Martin Corp.	LMT	20 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Mirant Corp.	MIR	$100 mln	over 1 year
Monarch Casino & Resort	MCRI	1 mln shares
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
9/26/2006
Key Technology	KTEC	500,000 shares
9/25/2006
Hansen Naural Corp.	HANS	$25 mln	adds to prior plan
Investors Bancorp	ISBC	5.3 mln shares	10% of outstanding
Oakley, Inc.	OO	$20 mln	adds to prior plan
Pressure BioSciences	PBIO	$500,000
Source: The Online Investor