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Michael Weiss, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer stated: "Our Board believes that at the current price our stock is undervalued based on many criteria, including the long-term growth prospects for the Company, and th

Just after its earnings release this week, Express (NASDAQ:EXPR) announced a new $100 million share repurchase program to use the firm's available cash over the next 18 months.

Focus Media Holding has a potential upside of 31.4% based on a current price of $26.68 and an average consensus analyst price target of $35.04.

Focus Media Holding is currently below its 50-day moving average (MA) of $31.99 and should find support at its 200-day MA of $26.67.

Focus Media (NASDAQ:FMCN) announced its intention to increase the size of its previously announced share repurchase program from $300 million to $450 million and to extend the termination date of the repurchase program to December

The company also approved a 7% increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $0.16 per common share.

Best Buy's (NYSE:BBY) board of directors authorized a new $5 billion share repurchase program. The new program replaces the company's prior $5.5 billion share repurchase program, which was announced on June 27, 2007 and had about

That's a 30% increase over the previous dividend of $0.12, and represents an annual yield of 1.4%, based on the stock's closing price yesterday of $47.96.

The board also renewed the company's share repurchase program, authorizing the purchase of 110 million shares over time. Since last February, the company has repurchased about 92 million shares.

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UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) announced today a dividend of $0.16 per share, to be paid on June 21, 2011, to all shareholders of record of UnitedHealth Group common stock as of the close of business on June 7, 2011.

The incremental $1.0 billion share repurchase authorization, which is effective immediately, increases its Class A share repurchase program, announced on September 14, 2010, to an aggregate of $2.0 billion.

MasterCard (MA) announced that its Board of Directors has amended its existing share repurchase program authorizing the company to repurchase an incremental $1.0 billion of its Class A common stock in open market transactions.

Under the program, the company may repurchase shares of company stock on the open market or in negotiated transactions in an amount to maintain up to 34 mln shares in Treasury, an increase in the repurchase authorization of 12 mln

DENTSPLY International Inc. (XRAY) is up 1.4% to $36.99, after announcing that its board of directors has increased the company's authorization to repurchase shares under its stock repurchase program.

KeyCorp announced that it completed the repurchase of $2.5B of Fixed-Rate Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B issued to the Department of the Treasury as a result of Key's participation in the Capital Purchase Program of the Troub

The accelerated share repurchase was in addition to its announced plan to buy back about $2.5 billion of outstanding shares throughout 2011.

Home Depot also reiterated its fiscal 2011 sales and earnings per share outlook. It expects sales to be up 2.5% for the year, and sees EPS of $2.20, excluding share repurchases.

Home Depot (NYSE:HD) said it will buy back $1 billion of outstanding shares through an accelerated share repurchase program with Barclays Capital.

The company said it will use the proceeds to fund its share buyback and capital-expenditure programs.

ConocoPhilips shares are up 1.53%, or $1.18, to $78.40.

Shares of ConocoPhilips (COP) are higher after the oil major announced announced plans to sell an additional $5billion to $10 billion of non-core assets over the next two years.

Education Management (EDMC) is up near 3%, after it says it increased its stock repurchase program from $150 million to $250 million. So far, it has repurchased 8.5 million shares at a cost of $125.8 million through March 9. The p