Fair Isaac Corporation, the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a common stock repurchase program to acquire up to $250 million of the company’s outstanding common stock.
This new program replaces Fair Isaac’s previous common stock repurchase program, which authorized the company to acquire up to $200 million of outstanding stock. Under the previous program, Fair Isaac purchased approximately 5.3 million shares of its common stock, at an aggregate cost of approximately $199.7 million.
As of July 31, 2006 Fair Isaac had approximately 62.9 million shares of common stock outstanding. The stock repurchase program, which is open-ended, allows the company to repurchase its shares from time to time in the open market and in negotiated transactions.
Fair Isaac Corporation also announced today that it has declared a two cent per share quarterly dividend, payable on September 22, 2006 to shareholders of record on September 8, 2006. The dividend was declared during a meeting of the company’s Board of Directors on August 28, 2006.