Transaction in Own Shares

FirstGroup plc

Transaction in own shares

FirstGroup plc ("FirstGroup") announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme (the "Programme") announced on 16 December 2022, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”) through RBC Europe Limited.

Date of Purchase	12 April 2023
Number of ordinary shares purchased	255,149
Weighted average price paid (p)	106.02
Highest price paid (p)	108.30
Lowest price paid (p)	105.10

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 33,501,277 Ordinary Shares in treasury.  

Additionally, on 12 April 2023 FirstGroup plc allotted 33,317 shares to satisfy obligations under the Share Incentive Plan (which is an all-employee share plan).

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 717,128,802.  FirstGroup initially intends to hold the purchased shares as treasury shares but may cancel them in the due course.

The total number of voting rights in FirstGroup, excluding treasury shares as at 12 April 2023 is 717,128,802. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, FirstGroup under the FCA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contacts at FirstGroup: Marianna Bowes, Head of Investor Relations David Blizzard, Company Secretary [e-mail] Tel: [phone]	Contacts at Brunswick PR: Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer Tel: [phone]
Contacts at Liberum Capital Limited: Nicholas How / John Fishley / William Hall  Tel: [phone]	Contacts at RBC Europe Limited: James Agnew / Jonathan Hardy / Jack Wood Tel: [phone]

Transaction details

Issuer name: FirstGroup PLC

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

ISIN: GB0003452173

Classification: 2.4. Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares

Intermediary name: RBC Europe Limited

Intermediary Code: ROYCGB22

Timezone: GMT

Currency: GBp

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a breakdown of the individual trades made by RBC Europe Limited on behalf of FirstGroup as part of the Programme is detailed below:

Aggregate information: 

Venue	Weighted average price (pence per share)	Aggregated volume
XLON	160,262	105.89
BATE	32,138	106.27
CHIX	28,581	106.28
TRQX	34,168	106.18

Individual transactions:

Transaction Time	Volume	Price (GBp)	Venue
08:01:54	884	108.30	XLON
08:01:54	31	107.90	TRQX
08:01:54	32	107.40	XLON
08:03:06	175	107.30	TRQX
08:03:06	357	107.30	XLON
08:03:06	268	107.30	CHIX
08:03:06	269	107.30	BATE
08:03:06	182	107.30	TRQX
08:03:06	89	107.30	CHIX
08:03:06	89	107.30	BATE
08:13:12	856	107.00	TRQX
08:13:12	71	107.00	XLON
08:13:12	72	107.00	BATE
08:13:12	71	107.00	CHIX
08:13:16	97	107.50	CHIX
08:13:17	97	107.50	XLON
08:13:18	97	107.50	BATE
08:13:22	25	107.60	XLON
08:13:22	93	107.50	CHIX
08:13:22	776	107.50	CHIX
08:20:17	223	107.00	XLON
08:20:17	97	107.00	TRQX
08:20:17	24	107.00	BATE
08:20:17	24	107.00	CHIX
08:22:49	26	106.80	BATE
08:22:49	25	106.80	TRQX
08:22:49	25	106.80	XLON
08:22:49	26	106.80	CHIX
08:26:15	48	107.60	CHIX
08:26:15	88	107.30	XLON
08:26:16	88	107.20	TRQX
08:26:16	89	107.20	BATE
08:26:17	579	107.40	CHIX
08:26:32	578	107.00	TRQX
08:26:32	361	107.00	XLON
08:26:32	579	107.00	BATE
08:26:32	361	107.00	CHIX
08:29:32	132	106.90	TRQX
08:29:32	132	106.90	XLON
08:29:32	121	106.90	BATE
08:29:32	132	106.90	CHIX
08:29:32	11	106.90	BATE
08:30:51	42	107.40	XLON
08:30:52	42	107.40	CHIX
08:30:55	11	107.40	XLON
08:30:58	10	107.40	CHIX
08:31:01	3	107.40	XLON
08:31:54	41	107.10	TRQX
08:31:54	3	107.10	CHIX
08:31:54	42	107.10	BATE
08:31:54	926	107.10	XLON
08:31:54	284	106.90	BATE
08:31:55	459	107.30	XLON
08:31:55	190	107.30	CHIX
08:31:55	695	107.30	BATE
08:31:55	506	107.30	CHIX
08:31:55	460	106.80	BATE
08:31:55	459	106.80	TRQX
08:31:55	460	106.80	CHIX
08:32:19	1,192	106.70	CHIX
08:32:19	1,126	106.70	TRQX
08:32:19	1,192	106.70	XLON
08:32:19	66	106.70	TRQX
08:32:23	190	107.00	BATE
08:32:23	1,849	107.00	BATE
08:32:23	408	106.60	CHIX
08:32:32	685	107.00	BATE
08:32:32	474	107.00	BATE
08:32:32	618	106.70	CHIX
08:32:34	682	107.00	CHIX
08:32:34	30	107.00	CHIX
08:38:21	236	106.80	XLON
08:38:21	235	106.80	TRQX
08:38:21	2,658	106.80	BATE
08:38:21	133	106.80	CHIX
08:44:49	308	106.60	BATE
08:44:49	308	106.60	CHIX
08:53:56	307	106.60	TRQX
08:53:56	308	106.60	XLON
08:53:56	305	106.60	BATE
08:53:56	209	106.60	CHIX
08:58:31	413	106.50	TRQX
08:58:31	413	106.50	XLON
08:58:31	413	106.50	CHIX
08:58:31	413	106.50	BATE
08:58:31	103	106.50	CHIX
08:58:34	287	106.40	TRQX
08:58:34	287	106.40	XLON
08:58:34	287	106.40	BATE
08:58:34	287	106.40	CHIX
09:15:21	136	106.60	XLON
09:15:22	121	106.60	BATE
09:15:22	15	106.60	BATE
09:15:23	446	106.60	XLON
09:15:25	54	106.60	CHIX
09:15:25	563	106.60	CHIX
09:15:28	112	106.60	XLON
09:15:31	34	106.60	BATE
09:15:34	28	106.60	XLON
09:15:37	9	106.60	BATE
09:15:40	7	106.60	XLON
09:15:43	2	106.60	BATE
09:19:24	136	106.40	CHIX
09:19:24	136	106.40	TRQX
09:19:24	154	106.40	CHIX
09:19:24	88	106.40	XLON
09:19:24	158	106.40	BATE
09:19:24	157	106.40	CHIX
09:19:24	157	106.40	XLON
09:19:24	17	106.40	TRQX
09:19:27	647	106.20	TRQX
09:19:27	648	106.20	CHIX
09:19:27	648	106.20	BATE
09:19:27	647	106.20	XLON
09:20:27	930	106.10	TRQX
09:20:27	78	106.10	BATE
09:22:47	46	106.00	XLON
09:22:47	45	106.00	TRQX
09:22:47	46	106.00	BATE
09:22:47	46	106.00	CHIX
09:22:53	17	106.00	XLON
09:22:53	16	106.00	TRQX
09:22:53	17	106.00	CHIX
09:27:58	117	106.10	BATE
09:27:58	138	106.10	BATE
09:27:58	168	105.80	BATE
09:28:01	42	106.10	CHIX
09:28:04	52	106.10	BATE
09:28:04	12	106.10	BATE
09:40:34	10	105.80	XLON
09:40:34	9	105.80	TRQX
09:40:34	10	105.80	CHIX
09:40:34	10	105.80	BATE
09:40:34	3	105.80	BATE
09:42:02	141	105.60	TRQX
09:42:02	141	105.60	XLON
09:42:02	142	105.60	BATE
09:42:02	141	105.60	CHIX
09:42:02	35	105.60	BATE
09:44:56	31	105.30	TRQX
09:44:57	31	105.30	XLON
09:46:31	114	105.60	BATE
09:46:32	113	105.60	CHIX
09:46:35	113	105.60	XLON
09:46:38	108	105.60	TRQX
09:46:38	5	105.60	TRQX
09:46:40	100	105.60	TRQX
09:46:44	29	105.60	BATE
09:46:47	28	105.60	XLON
10:01:07	20	105.60	BATE
10:01:11	20	105.60	CHIX
10:01:14	20	105.60	XLON
10:01:17	19	105.60	TRQX
10:01:20	13	105.60	XLON
10:01:21	5	106.00	XLON
10:01:21	2,436	105.90	XLON
11:11:27	1,830	106.15	CHIX
11:11:27	400	106.10	TRQX
11:11:27	58	106.10	XLON
11:11:27	206	106.10	TRQX
11:11:27	836	106.10	XLON
11:11:27	399	106.10	BATE
11:11:27	407	106.10	CHIX
11:11:27	288	106.10	TRQX
11:11:27	495	106.10	BATE
11:11:27	487	106.10	CHIX
11:28:30	3	106.10	BATE
11:37:10	894	106.10	TRQX
11:37:10	894	106.10	XLON
11:37:10	891	106.10	BATE
11:37:10	894	106.10	CHIX
11:47:30	177	106.00	BATE
11:47:30	896	106.00	XLON
11:47:30	875	106.00	CHIX
11:47:30	200	106.00	TRQX
11:47:30	698	106.00	BATE
11:47:30	695	106.00	TRQX
11:52:44	510	106.00	XLON
11:52:44	44	105.90	TRQX
11:52:44	389	105.90	TRQX
11:53:53	345	106.10	BATE
11:53:53	165	106.10	BATE
11:53:53	414	105.90	TRQX
11:53:54	256	106.10	CHIX
11:53:54	254	106.10	CHIX
11:53:56	236	106.10	XLON
11:53:59	38	106.10	CHIX
11:53:59	89	106.10	CHIX
11:54:02	33	106.10	BATE
11:54:02	31	106.10	BATE
11:54:02	1,089	106.10	BATE
11:54:02	110	106.10	BATE
11:54:02	423	106.10	BATE
11:54:05	59	106.10	XLON
11:54:08	32	106.10	CHIX
11:54:08	30	106.00	TRQX
11:54:08	9	106.00	XLON
11:54:08	421	106.00	BATE
11:54:08	65	106.00	TRQX
11:54:08	15	106.00	XLON
11:56:11	124	105.70	XLON
11:56:11	124	105.70	TRQX
11:56:11	124	105.70	BATE
11:56:11	124	105.70	CHIX
11:58:56	225	105.60	XLON
11:58:56	19	105.60	CHIX
12:01:14	66	105.30	TRQX
12:01:14	267	105.30	CHIX
12:01:14	267	105.30	BATE
12:01:14	483	105.30	XLON
12:01:14	63	105.30	CHIX
12:01:14	66	105.30	BATE
12:01:14	326	105.30	TRQX
12:01:14	91	105.30	TRQX
12:01:14	98	105.30	BATE
12:01:14	153	105.30	CHIX
12:01:14	52	105.30	BATE
12:02:09	521	105.60	CHIX
12:02:09	172	105.50	XLON
12:02:09	349	105.50	XLON
12:03:05	1,002	105.80	TRQX
12:03:05	39	105.80	TRQX
12:59:51	488	105.80	XLON
13:04:19	248	106.00	XLON
13:04:19	49	105.80	TRQX
13:04:19	1,190	105.80	XLON
13:04:19	291	105.80	BATE
13:04:19	359	105.80	CHIX
13:14:29	446	105.70	TRQX
13:14:29	446	105.70	XLON
13:14:29	446	105.70	BATE
13:14:29	446	105.70	CHIX
13:14:29	112	105.70	XLON
13:29:58	317	106.00	XLON
13:29:59	317	106.00	CHIX
13:30:02	1,216	106.00	XLON
13:30:05	79	106.00	CHIX
13:30:08	304	106.00	XLON
13:30:11	76	106.10	XLON
13:30:11	22	106.00	XLON
13:31:19	2,344	105.90	XLON
13:31:19	316	105.90	TRQX
13:31:19	317	105.90	BATE
13:31:19	20	105.90	CHIX
13:38:04	86	106.10	XLON
13:38:04	2,837	106.10	XLON
13:39:40	782	105.90	TRQX
13:39:40	894	105.90	XLON
13:39:40	894	105.90	BATE
13:39:40	894	105.90	CHIX
13:39:40	112	105.90	TRQX
14:31:02	3	106.10	CHIX
14:31:02	103	106.10	TRQX
14:31:02	485	106.10	XLON
14:31:02	289	106.10	BATE
14:31:02	240	106.10	TRQX
14:31:02	341	106.10	CHIX
14:31:02	1,191	106.10	XLON
14:31:02	55	106.10	BATE
14:47:40	1,460	106.10	XLON
14:47:40	564	106.10	TRQX
14:47:44	809	106.10	XLON
14:55:23	62	106.50	TRQX
14:55:23	4,746	106.50	TRQX
14:55:23	391	106.30	BATE
14:55:58	1,192	106.30	XLON
14:55:58	2,670	106.30	TRQX
14:55:58	1,192	106.30	BATE
14:55:58	1,192	106.30	CHIX
15:00:36	894	106.20	CHIX
15:00:36	894	106.20	BATE
15:00:36	894	106.20	XLON
15:00:36	833	106.20	TRQX
15:00:36	61	106.20	TRQX
15:03:29	894	106.10	CHIX
15:03:29	894	106.10	BATE
15:03:29	894	106.10	XLON
15:03:29	894	106.10	TRQX
15:09:18	894	106.00	CHIX
15:09:18	894	106.00	TRQX
15:09:18	894	106.00	BATE
15:09:18	894	106.00	XLON
15:09:20	894	106.00	XLON
15:19:54	249	106.10	BATE
15:19:54	894	106.10	TRQX
15:19:54	645	106.10	BATE
15:19:54	894	106.10	CHIX
15:19:54	1,019	106.10	XLON
15:19:54	1,018	106.10	TRQX
15:25:03	544	106.10	CHIX
15:25:03	894	106.10	BATE
15:25:03	894	106.10	TRQX
15:25:03	894	106.10	XLON
15:25:03	350	106.10	CHIX
15:33:31	713	106.00	CHIX
15:33:31	712	106.00	TRQX
15:33:31	1,438	106.00	BATE
15:33:31	713	106.00	XLON
15:37:00	954	106.00	TRQX
15:37:00	194	106.00	BATE
15:37:00	954	106.00	CHIX
15:37:00	545	106.00	BATE
15:37:00	216	106.00	BATE
15:38:14	406	105.90	XLON
15:38:14	833	105.90	TRQX
15:38:14	428	105.90	XLON
15:38:14	633	105.90	BATE
15:38:14	633	105.90	CHIX
15:38:38	429	105.80	TRQX
15:38:42	43	105.90	TRQX
15:38:42	595	105.90	TRQX
15:38:43	107	105.90	TRQX
15:38:45	159	105.90	TRQX
15:38:48	54	105.90	BATE
15:38:51	53	105.90	XLON
15:38:53	53	105.90	CHIX
15:38:57	40	105.90	TRQX
15:39:00	27	105.90	TRQX
15:39:03	14	105.90	XLON
15:39:03	10	105.80	TRQX
15:39:03	13	105.80	CHIX
15:39:03	13	105.80	BATE
15:39:03	7	105.80	TRQX
15:45:03	11	105.70	XLON
15:45:03	11	105.70	CHIX
15:45:06	52	105.80	TRQX
15:45:06	247	105.80	TRQX
15:45:08	54	105.80	CHIX
15:45:08	96	105.80	CHIX
15:45:12	44	105.80	XLON
15:45:12	105	105.80	XLON
15:45:15	75	105.80	TRQX
15:45:18	37	105.80	CHIX
15:45:21	19	105.80	TRQX
15:45:24	11	105.80	BATE
15:45:26	11	105.80	TRQX
15:45:30	9	105.80	CHIX
15:45:33	5	105.80	TRQX
15:45:36	3	105.80	TRQX
15:45:39	3	105.80	BATE
15:45:42	2	105.80	CHIX
15:46:03	1	105.70	BATE
15:46:03	1	105.70	TRQX
15:46:03	37	105.70	XLON
15:46:03	1	105.70	TRQX
15:55:03	115	105.60	CHIX
15:55:57	119	105.60	TRQX
15:55:57	120	105.60	XLON
15:55:57	120	105.60	BATE
15:55:57	120	105.60	CHIX
15:55:57	30	105.60	CHIX
15:58:12	26	105.60	BATE
15:58:15	26	105.60	CHIX
15:58:18	25	105.60	TRQX
15:58:21	25	105.60	XLON
15:58:24	7	105.60	CHIX
15:58:27	7	105.60	XLON
15:58:30	7	105.60	BATE
15:58:31	6	105.70	CHIX
15:58:33	6	105.80	TRQX
15:58:33	45	105.70	BATE
15:58:33	1,000	105.70	BATE
15:58:33	520	105.70	BATE
15:58:34	1	105.70	CHIX
16:03:03	2	105.60	XLON
16:03:03	531	105.60	TRQX
16:03:03	532	105.60	BATE
16:03:03	1	105.60	CHIX
16:03:23	46	105.60	XLON
16:07:28	87	105.50	CHIX
16:07:28	86	105.50	TRQX
16:07:28	86	105.50	XLON
16:07:28	87	105.50	BATE
16:08:10	61	105.50	CHIX
16:08:10	23	105.50	CHIX
16:08:10	159	105.50	CHIX
16:09:04	272	105.40	CHIX
16:09:04	144	105.40	TRQX
16:09:04	272	105.40	XLON
16:09:53	175	105.50	CHIX
16:09:55	49	105.50	XLON
16:09:55	126	105.50	XLON
16:09:57	46	105.50	TRQX
16:09:57	44	105.50	TRQX
16:09:57	85	105.50	TRQX
16:10:00	44	105.50	BATE
16:10:00	13	105.50	BATE
16:10:00	31	105.50	BATE
16:10:00	87	105.50	BATE
16:10:03	44	105.50	CHIX
16:10:06	44	105.50	BATE
16:10:09	43	105.50	TRQX
16:10:12	11	105.50	CHIX
16:10:15	11	105.50	TRQX
16:10:18	11	105.50	BATE
16:10:21	3	105.50	CHIX
16:10:24	3	105.50	BATE
16:10:25	2	105.50	TRQX
16:12:24	1	105.30	BATE
16:12:24	1	105.30	CHIX
16:12:26	37	105.40	TRQX
16:12:26	48	105.40	TRQX
16:12:26	141	105.40	TRQX
16:12:26	44	105.40	TRQX
16:12:26	42	105.40	TRQX
16:13:49	174	105.30	TRQX
16:13:49	175	105.30	CHIX
16:13:49	106	105.30	XLON
16:13:49	175	105.30	BATE
16:13:49	68	105.30	XLON
16:16:33	73	105.40	XLON
16:16:33	12	105.30	BATE
16:16:33	9	105.30	BATE
16:16:33	53	105.30	BATE
16:16:33	57	105.10	TRQX
16:17:18	599	105.20	XLON
16:35:18	11,145	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	11,613	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	11,610	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	18,809	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	8,390	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	8,000	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	1,915	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	1,082	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	2,318	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	7,308	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	2,174	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	4,255	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	91	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	4,866	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	5,980	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	5,757	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	2,335	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	1,504	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	4,311	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	2,704	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	1,710	105.80	XLON
16:35:18	2,270	105.80	XLON