Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Alliance Data Systems Corp (NDAQ:ADS)
8K Filing by the Company
Alliance announced today that it would be instituting a buyback program to repurchase up to $600 million of its common stock through 2006. This is significant because Alliance's market cap is only $4.52 billion, which makes this transaction cover around 14% of the company's outstanding stock.

Hastings Entertainment, Inc. (NDAQ:HAST)

8K Filing by the Company
Hastings announced today that it would buyback $2.5 million worth of shares because it believes its stock is current undervalued. This follows the company's previous arrangement to buy back $12.5 million, of which it still has $3.6 million remaining. The company is trading well below its enterprise value ($117 million EV with an $81 million market cap!).

SAIC (NYSE:SAI)
S1/A Filing by the Company
SAIC said today that it would be pricing its shares between $13 and $15 with 75 million shares being issued. The company also revealed that it would be issuing a special dividend of between $1.6 billion and $2.4 billion paid to investors holding prior to the public offering. This is likely occurring because the company is currently employee-owned - so, this would be a bonus before they go public. The company also revealed it was growing at an annualized rate of 15.5% with revenues of $7.8 billion during their latest fiscal year.