St Jude to buy back $250m in shares
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
St. Jude Medical announced on Monday (Feb 25) it is to repurchase $250m of its common stock. The company said any shares acquired will be available for general corporate purposes, including offsetting dilution associated with stock option and other equity-based employee benefit plans. As of December 29 2007, St Jude had around 343 million shares outstanding.