Shareholders' Equity

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Equity [Abstract]

Shareholders' Equity

Shareholders’ Equity

On November 11, 2015, the Company entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement (“ASR”) with an investment bank to purchase an aggregate $75 million of the Company’s common stock. The Company received an initial delivery of 1,985,981shares of the Company’s common stock with a fair market value of approximately $63.75 million. On January 6, 2016 this agreement was completed by the investment bank with the delivery of 363,209 shares of the Company’s common stock.

On March 5, 2015, the Company entered into an ASR with an investment bank to purchase an aggregate $100.0 million of the Company’s common stock. As part of the ASR, the Company received an initial delivery of 2,667,992 shares of the Company’s common stock with a fair market value of approximately $85.0 million. On August 6, 2015, the Company was notified by its investment bank that the March 5, 2015 ASR agreement between the Company and the investment bank had been completed in accordance with the terms of the agreement. The investment bank delivered to the Company an additional 391,637 shares of the Company’s common stock for a total of 3,059,629 shares repurchased under the agreement. The delivery of the remaining 391,637 shares occurred on August 11, 2015. At the conclusion of this contract the Company had authorization for $50 million of share repurchases under the original Board authorization.

On July 20, 2015, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $400 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock. After completion of the ASR on January 6, 2016, the Company has approval to repurchase up to $375 million, in the aggregate, of the Company’s outstanding common stock. Since beginning share repurchases in 2014, the Company has repurchased 7,793,579 shares of the Company's common stock at an aggregate cost of $250 million.

Under the authorization from the Company’s Board of Directors, shares may be purchased from time to time, at the Company’s discretion and subject to the availability of stock, market conditions, the trading price of the stock, alternative uses for capital, the Company’s financial performance and other potential factors. These purchases may be carried out through open market purchases, block trades, accelerated share repurchase plans of up to $100 million each (unless otherwise approved by the Board of Directors), negotiated private transactions or pursuant to any trading plan that may be adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.