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Repurchases Of Common Stock | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Repurchases Of Common Stock [Abstract] |
Repurchases Of Common Stock | Note 11. Repurchases of common STOCK The following is a summary of our open market common stock repurchases, reported on a trade date basis, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 (in thousands, except per share amounts):
|  | For the Three Months Ended |  | For the Nine Months Ended
|  | September 30, |  | September 30,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Shares repurchased 1 |  |  | 1,213 |  |  | 4,393 |  |  | 4,345 |  |  | 7,492
Total cost of shares repurchased |  | $ | 85,975 |  | $ | 272,342 |  | $ | 313,083 |  | $ | 468,968
Average cost per share 1 |  | $ | 70.89 |  | $ | 61.99 |  | $ | 72.05 |  | $ | 62.59
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| (1) |  | Shares repurchased and acquired through employee surrender for payment of minimum required withholding taxes on and before June 15, 2015 and the associated average cost per share have been adjusted to reflect the June 2015 two-for-one stock split. Actual shares repurchased were approximately 2,962,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, and approximately 2,197,000 and 3,746,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.
We primarily acquire shares by means of repurchases in the open market. However, we also acquire shares that are surrendered by employees in payment for the minimum required withholding taxes due on the vesting of restricted stock units and the settlement of deferred stock units, otherwise referred to herein as employee surrenders. The number of shares acquired through employee surrenders during both the three months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 was not material. We acquired approximately 66,000 shares having a total cost of $5.2 million in connection with such employee surrenders during the nine months ended September 3 0, 2015 as compared to approximately 85,000 shares having a total cost of $5.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2014. In conjunction with a two-for-one split of our outstanding shares of common stock enacted on May 18, 2015, IDEXX paid the stock dividend on June 15, 2015 by issuing approximately 46.6 million shares of treasury stock having a total carrying value of approximately $1.5 billion. We issue shares of treasury stock upon the vesting of certain restricted stock units and upon the exercise of certain stock options. The number of shares of treasury st ock issued during both the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 was not material.

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