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Repurchase of Helen of Troy Common Stock | 3 Months Ended
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May 31, 2012
Repurchase of Helen of Troy Common Stock |
Repurchase of Helen of Troy Common Stock |
Note 13 – Repurchase of Helen of Troy Common Stock As of May 31, 2012, we are authorized by our Board of Directors to purchase up to 3,022,788 shares of common stock in the open market or through private transactions. Our current equity compensation plans include provisions that allow for the “cashless exercise” of stock options by all plan participants. In a cashless exercise, any required payroll taxes, federal withholding taxes and exercise price of the shares due from the option holder can be paid for by having the option holder tender back to the Company a number of shares at fair value equal to the amounts due. Cashless exercises are accounted for by the Company as a purchase and retirement of shares. For the periods covered in the accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements, there was no open market repurchase activity, however common stock option exercise and director stock compensation activity resulted in the following share repurchases: SHARE REPURCHASES
|  | Three Months Ended May 31, |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Value of common stock received as exercise price of options |  |  |  |  |
Number of shares |  | 44,444 |  | 26,183 |
Aggregate market value of shares (in thousands) |  | $ | 1,476 |  | $ | 837 |
Average price per share |  | $ | 33.20 |  | $ | 31.98 |
Value of common stock received from director stock compensation activity |  |  |  |  |
Number of shares |  | 1,122 |  | - |
Aggregate market value of shares (in thousands) |  | $ | 37 |  | $ | - |
Average price per share |  | $ | 32.88 |  | $ | - |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for an entity's treasury stock, including the average cost per share, carrying basis for each class of treasury stock, description of share repurchase program authorized by an entity's board of directors, the number of shares repurchased, the cost of the shares repurchased, the remaining maximum dollar value of shares available for repurchase under the program, the treatment of the purchase price in excess of the current market value, number of shares held for each class of treasury stock, and other information necessary to a fair presentation. + References No definition available. + Details
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