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TREASURY STOCK
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Equity [Abstract]  
TREASURY STOCK TREASURY STOCK
On October 24, 2017, the Company's Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program that enabled the Company to repurchase up to twenty-five million shares of its common stock (2017 Share Repurchase Program). This program became effective when the Company's previously disclosed twenty million share repurchase program was completed. The Company was not obligated to acquire any specific amount of common stock within any particular timeframe as a result of this share repurchase program. Through December 31, 2022, the Company repurchased a total of 23,790,847 shares for $660.4 million in the open market under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program, and at December 31, 2022, 1,209,153 shares of common stock remained available to be purchased under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program. The Company repurchased 4,549,329 and 1,330,678 shares for $150.0 million and $35.7 million under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program during the nine months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
On May 3, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program that enables the Company to repurchase up to twenty-five million shares of its common stock (2022 Share Repurchase Program). The 2022 Share Repurchase Program will become effective once the 2017 Share Repurchase Program is completed. The Company is not obligated to acquire any specific amount of common stock within any particular timeframe as a result of the 2022 Share Repurchase Program.
On May 9, 2022, the Company entered into accelerated share repurchase (ASR) agreements with Mizuho Markets Americas LLC (Mizuho) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (Wells Fargo) (collectively, the Dealers) to repurchase an aggregate of $150 million of the Company's common stock via accelerated stock repurchase transactions under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program. Under the terms of the ASR, the Company made a $75 million payment to each of the Dealers on May 10, 2022, and received an initial delivery of 1,627,907 shares from each of the Dealers, or 3,255,814 shares in the aggregate, which was approximately 70 percent of the total number of shares of the Company's common stock expected to be repurchased under the ASR agreements. These shares reduced the number of shares of the Company's common stock available for repurchase under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program. Final settlement of the ASR agreements was completed in November 2022. As a result, the Company received an additional 651,213 shares from Mizuho and 642,302 shares from Wells Fargo, or 1,293,515 shares in the aggregate, for $47.9 million, which reduced the number of shares of the Company's common stock available to be repurchased under the 2017 Share Repurchase Program. In total, 4,549,329 shares of the Company's common stock were repurchased under the ASR agreements at an average cost per share of $32.97 during the nine months ended December 31, 2022.
In connection with the delivery of shares of the Company's common stock upon vesting of restricted stock units, the Company withheld 555,651 shares and 531,725 shares at a cost of $19.2 million and $15.2 million, respectively, related to minimum statutory tax withholding requirements on these restricted stock units during the nine months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. These withholding transactions do not fall under the share repurchase programs described above, and therefore do not reduce the number of shares that are available for repurchase under those programs.