11.   A buyback can boost a stock because it reduces the number of shares outstanding, lifting per-share earnings.

12.   A bidding battle for outstanding Paz Del Rio shares was to resume today and continue tomorrow.

13.   Aegon will also buy about eight percent of its currently outstanding common shares from Vereniging Aegon, its largest shareholder.

14.   Also, Microsoft has a larger amount of shares outstanding, which makes its stock price less volatile.

15.   All outstanding SLH shares are to remain outstanding.

16.   All per-share data reflect the number of shares outstanding prior to this split.

17.   Brazilian stocks fell, led by Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA, amid concern a court may force the state telephone company to dilute the amount of outstanding shares.

18.   But executives at SunTrust noted that according to North Carolina law, Wachovia needed to win more than half of all the outstanding shares.

19.   But he notes that Yahoo currently is not repurchasing stock and forecasts that its total of outstanding shares will continue to balloon.

20.   But in others, Enron actually acted as if the stock had already been issued, including it in the total of outstanding shares.