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 8 June 2023, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”) through Liberum Capital Limited.

 

Date of Purchase

13 December 2023

Number of ordinary shares purchased

326,163

Weighted average price paid (p)

163.81

Highest price paid (p)

166.80

Lowest price paid (p)

161.00

 

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 94,616,711 Ordinary Shares in treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 656,078,304 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 13 December 2023 is 656,078,304. 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
corporate.comms@firstgroup.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

Contacts at Brunswick PR:


Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

Contacts at Liberum Capital Limited:


Nicholas How / John Fishley
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100 2000 

Contacts at RBC Europe Limited:


James Agnew / Jack Wood
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7653 4000

 

Transaction details

Issuer name: FirstGroup PLC

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

ISIN: GB0003452173

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

Intermediary name: Liberum Capital Limited

Intermediary Code: RINFGB21XXX

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

163.93

219,886

BATE

163.38

41,529

CHIX

163.62

44,100

TRQX

163.84

20,648

 

Individual transactions:

Transaction Time

Volume

Price (GBp)

Platform

08:00:11

722

166.70

TRQX

08:00:11

520

166.70

TRQX

08:00:51

1,203

165.40

CHIX

08:02:12

1,288

165.70

BATE

08:03:00

1200

166.00

BATE

08:03:00

77

166.00

BATE

08:03:16

1,473

166.70

XLON

08:03:16

1,239

166.80

XLON

08:03:16

5343

165.90

XLON

08:03:16

1,419

165.90

XLON

08:03:16

4,180

166.10

XLON

08:03:16

115

165.90

XLON

08:03:16

4000

165.90

XLON

08:03:16

858

165.90

XLON

08:03:20

115

165.90

XLON

08:04:15

1,255

165.40

XLON

08:04:18

1,266

165.00

CHIX

08:04:42

1,255

164.40

XLON

08:08:42

1,294

164.40

XLON

08:10:18

151

165.10

XLON

08:10:21

905

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

806

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

1,297

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

1,300

165.10

XLON

08:10:21

8

165.10

XLON

08:10:21

1,404

165.10

XLON

08:10:21

658

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

341

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

146

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

122

165.20

XLON

08:10:21

372

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

334

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

143

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

119

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

334

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

143

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

800

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

800

165.20

XLON

08:10:36

9

165.20

XLON

08:10:41

497

165.90

TRQX

08:10:41

738

165.90

TRQX

08:10:41

1,156

165.50

BATE

08:10:41

1,118

165.20

XLON

08:10:41

382

165.20

XLON

08:10:41

159

165.00

CHIX

08:10:45

1096

165.00

CHIX

08:11:41

1,401

165.00

XLON

08:12:41

1,418

165.00

XLON

08:13:41

1,498

165.00

XLON

08:14:41

1326

165.00

XLON

08:15:41

1,411

165.00

XLON

08:17:41

1,414

165.00

XLON

08:18:41

1559

165.00

XLON

08:19:41

1287

165.00

XLON

08:28:05

1042

164.90

CHIX

08:29:41

224

165.00

XLON

08:29:41

112

165.00

XLON

08:29:41

488

165.00

XLON

08:29:41

684

165.00

XLON

08:32:41

800

165.40

XLON

08:32:41

606

165.40

XLON

08:36:56

1,422

165.40

XLON

08:42:56

168

165.20

XLON

08:42:56

1,294

165.20

XLON

08:43:14

1,164

165.20

CHIX

08:48:19

1,408

164.70

XLON

08:53:19

1,379

164.60

XLON

08:58:19

1030

164.70

XLON

08:58:19

386

164.70

XLON

08:59:14

304

164.70

CHIX

08:59:25

843

164.70

CHIX

09:05:19

1,319

164.60

XLON

09:11:25

1,051

164.50

CHIX

09:11:25

109

164.40

XLON

09:11:25

1,404

164.40

XLON

09:12:11

108

164.80

TRQX

09:12:11

516

164.80

TRQX

09:12:11

408

164.80

TRQX

09:12:11

1,600

164.60

BATE

09:18:11

568

164.30

XLON

09:18:11

918

164.30

XLON

09:23:11

1,373

164.70

XLON

09:29:11

1,074

164.80

TRQX

09:29:11

1,414

164.60

XLON

09:29:11

171

164.80

TRQX

09:29:11

25

164.70

CHIX

09:29:11

1084

164.70

CHIX

09:39:12

1,325

164.40

XLON

09:40:14

48

164.40

XLON

09:40:14

1,408

164.40

XLON

09:40:14

50

164.40

XLON

09:40:32

1,393

164.00

XLON

09:42:20

400

164.40

BATE

09:42:20

790

164.40

BATE

09:42:20

1040

164.60

BATE

09:44:44

643

164.50

CHIX

09:44:44

439

164.50

CHIX

09:47:05

1105

164.70

TRQX

09:47:05

28

164.70

TRQX

09:50:43

2,581

165.20

XLON

09:50:43

1,513

165.00

XLON

09:57:43

800

164.70

XLON

09:57:43

537

164.70

XLON

09:59:44

1,245

164.50

CHIX

10:01:49

1

164.60

XLON

10:03:06

1323

164.70

XLON

10:11:06

1452

164.60

XLON

10:14:06

1467

164.60

XLON

10:17:02

591

164.40

XLON

10:17:02

864

164.40

XLON

10:24:35

1,550

163.90

XLON

10:26:05

1,119

164.20

CHIX

10:26:21

1,261

164.40

TRQX

10:27:05

1,354

164.20

XLON

10:29:17

800

164.00

XLON

10:29:17

716

164.00

XLON

10:35:17

268

164.00

XLON

10:35:17

213

164.00

XLON

10:35:17

408

164.00

XLON

10:37:17

1,439

164.20

XLON

10:40:17

400

164.20

XLON

10:40:17

400

164.20

XLON

10:40:17

649

164.20

XLON

10:44:05

1,200

164.20

CHIX

10:44:05

35

164.20

CHIX

10:44:05

392

164.00

XLON

10:52:05

663

164.20

XLON

10:52:05

594

164.20

XLON

10:52:05

1412

164.20

XLON

10:55:14

317

164.00

XLON

10:55:14

52

164.00

XLON

10:55:14

1,154

164.00

XLON

11:02:14

1,489

164.00

XLON

11:02:14

335

163.70

CHIX

11:10:11

1,200

164.00

XLON

11:10:11

604

164.00

XLON

11:10:11

1434

164.00

XLON

11:24:11

1229

164.20

CHIX

11:24:11

800

164.20

XLON

11:24:11

259

164.20

XLON

11:24:11

2400

164.20

XLON

11:29:11

800

164.00

XLON

11:29:11

727

164.00

XLON

11:33:11

808

164.00

CHIX

11:33:11

292

164.00

CHIX

11:36:11

400

164.00

XLON

11:36:11

800

164.00

XLON

11:36:11

58

164.00

XLON

11:40:03

400

163.80

XLON

11:40:03

1,108

163.80

XLON

11:48:03

800

163.60

XLON

11:48:03

550

163.60

XLON

11:52:55

1

163.40

CHIX

11:54:38

1,336

163.80

XLON

11:54:38

1,244

163.70

CHIX

11:56:25

1196

163.50

BATE

11:56:25

128

163.50

BATE

11:57:21

358

163.50

TRQX

11:57:41

1,273

163.70

TRQX

11:58:25

1,338

163.70

XLON

12:02:25

1,152

163.70

XLON

12:02:25

144

163.70

XLON

12:09:25

1,048

163.70

XLON

12:09:25

503

163.70

XLON

12:16:53

389

163.50

XLON

12:17:53

400

163.70

XLON

12:17:53

400

163.70

XLON

12:17:53

558

163.70

XLON

12:22:25

1326

163.50

XLON

12:22:25

1072

163.60

CHIX

12:22:25

178

163.60

CHIX

12:36:30

1,415

163.20

XLON

12:36:30

1,085

163.20

XLON

12:36:30

324

163.20

XLON

12:37:25

1,166

163.40

BATE

12:37:26

172

163.30

BATE

12:37:26

148

163.30

BATE

12:37:26

373

163.30

BATE

12:37:26

558

163.30

BATE

12:47:00

683

163.40

CHIX

12:47:00

594

163.40

CHIX

13:06:02

400

163.70

BATE

13:06:02

800

163.70

BATE

13:06:02

72

163.70

BATE

13:06:02

1,200

163.70

BATE

13:06:02

365

163.60

XLON

13:06:02

53

163.50

CHIX

13:06:02

365

163.60

XLON

13:06:02

670

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

1,298

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

400

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

2049

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

525

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

334

163.60

XLON

13:06:05

473

163.50

CHIX

13:06:41

1,123

163.70

TRQX

13:13:19

2,413

163.50

XLON

13:16:19

1253

163.50

XLON

13:28:45

3916

163.50

XLON

13:28:45

512

163.30

CHIX

13:28:45

618

163.30

CHIX

13:29:34

165

163.30

TRQX

13:29:50

379

163.30

CHIX

13:30:27

400

163.60

XLON

13:30:27

400

163.60

XLON

13:30:27

505

163.60

XLON

13:30:27

122

163.60

XLON

13:31:02

1,242

163.50

TRQX

13:32:27

800

163.60

XLON

13:32:27

688

163.60

XLON

13:34:37

1,186

163.50

XLON

13:34:37

334

163.50

XLON

13:35:34

342

163.40

CHIX

13:39:37

1,560

163.50

XLON

13:39:37

441

163.40

CHIX

13:41:21

374

163.40

CHIX

13:46:37

1,359

163.50

XLON

13:51:37

1,033

163.60

BATE

13:51:37

485

163.60

XLON

13:51:44

944

163.60

XLON

13:52:02

670

163.60

CHIX

13:52:02

400

163.60

CHIX

13:52:02

217

163.60

CHIX

13:53:47

400

163.60

XLON

13:53:47

400

163.60

XLON

13:53:47

400

163.60

XLON

13:53:47

144

163.60

XLON

13:59:03

1,340

163.60

XLON

14:03:03

2,227

163.60

XLON

14:03:37

800

163.60

BATE

14:03:37

440

163.60

BATE

14:06:03

1,361

163.60

XLON

14:07:03

400

163.50

XLON

14:07:03

400

163.50

XLON

14:07:03

652

163.50

XLON

14:07:03

439

163.40

CHIX

14:07:03

705

163.40

CHIX

14:15:28

379

163.50

XLON

14:15:37

400

163.50

XLON

14:15:37

571

163.50

XLON

14:15:37

400

163.50

XLON

14:15:37

400

163.50

XLON

14:15:37

998

163.50

XLON

14:17:37

1,500

163.50

XLON

14:17:37

580

163.30

CHIX

14:20:15

313

163.30

CHIX

14:20:15

373

163.30

CHIX

14:21:02

244

163.30

TRQX

14:22:44

400

163.30

TRQX

14:22:44

400

163.30

TRQX

14:27:01

233

163.30

TRQX

14:27:01

376

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

400

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

133

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

533

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

87

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

127

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

1,336

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

133

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

400

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

828

163.20

XLON

14:30:59

1,349

163.20

XLON

14:31:14

787

163.20

BATE

14:31:14

479

163.20

BATE

14:31:14

26

162.80

CHIX

14:31:38

782

163.00

CHIX

14:31:38

364

163.00

CHIX

14:31:47

1,268

163.00

XLON

14:31:47

1,124

163.30

TRQX

14:35:22

1,421

163.10

XLON

14:36:48

1,166

163.10

CHIX

14:37:22

400

163.10

XLON

14:37:23

149

163.10

XLON

14:37:30

722

163.10

XLON

14:37:30

275

163.10

XLON

14:40:30

1548

163.10

XLON

14:42:30

800

163.10

XLON

14:42:30

607

163.10

XLON

14:43:42

1,487

162.90

XLON

14:43:43

1,136

162.80

CHIX

14:46:34

400

162.70

XLON

14:46:34

230

162.70

XLON

14:46:34

400

162.70

XLON

14:46:34

377

162.70

XLON

14:50:27

573

162.90

CHIX

14:50:27

151

162.90

XLON

14:50:27

29

162.90

XLON

14:50:27

27

162.90

XLON

14:50:27

94

162.90

CHIX

14:50:27

437

162.90

CHIX

14:50:27

265

162.90

XLON

14:55:39

1,554

162.90

XLON

14:55:39

1,426

162.90

XLON

14:55:39

1,495

162.90

XLON

14:55:39

1,388

162.90

BATE

14:55:39

1249

162.90

BATE

15:01:13

358

162.70

XLON

15:01:13

1,090

162.70

XLON

15:01:13

1,528

162.70

XLON

15:01:13

1,284

162.70

XLON

15:01:13

1,034

162.70

CHIX

15:02:32

368

162.60

TRQX

15:09:58

358

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

1,066

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

1,137

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

1466

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

343

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

339

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

400

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

724

162.70

XLON

15:13:25

1098

162.70

BATE

15:13:25

96

162.70

BATE

15:13:25

703

162.70

CHIX

15:13:25

354

162.70

CHIX

15:13:25

1062

162.70

CHIX

15:13:25

400

162.70

BATE

15:13:25

400

162.70

BATE

15:13:25

400

162.70

BATE

15:13:26

42

162.60

TRQX

15:13:26

83

162.60

TRQX

15:13:26

786

162.60

TRQX

15:13:28

124

162.60

TRQX

15:13:28

234

162.60

TRQX

15:13:28

964

162.60

TRQX

15:17:16

335

162.50

XLON

15:18:25

85

162.60

CHIX

15:18:25

400

162.60

CHIX

15:18:25

619

162.60

CHIX

15:19:07

800

162.50

XLON

15:19:07

225

162.50

XLON

15:19:07

154

162.50

XLON

15:19:07

246

162.50

XLON

15:19:07

1,105

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

400

162.30

CHIX

15:28:25

15

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

2959

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

1,984

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

283

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

197

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

3

162.50

XLON

15:28:25

818

162.30

CHIX

15:28:25

1200

162.30

BATE

15:28:25

791

162.40

BATE

15:28:25

400

162.40

BATE

15:28:25

107

162.40

BATE

15:31:42

800

162.60

TRQX

15:31:42

458

162.60

TRQX

15:35:55

358

162.50

XLON

15:42:13

358

162.50

XLON

15:46:28

5,415

162.70

XLON

15:46:28

400

162.70

XLON

15:46:28

908

162.70

XLON

15:46:28

1,604

162.70

CHIX

15:46:47

1,208

162.70

BATE

15:47:52

1,537

162.70

XLON

15:47:52

330

162.70

XLON

15:51:52

800

162.70

CHIX

15:51:52

383

162.70

CHIX

15:51:52

334

162.90

BATE

15:51:52

878

162.90

BATE

15:51:52

6

162.90

BATE

15:51:52

655

162.80

XLON

15:51:52

1537

162.90

BATE

15:55:27

533

163.00

TRQX

15:55:27

492

163.00

TRQX

15:57:02

4

163.00

TRQX

15:59:54

45

163.00

TRQX

16:04:48

414

162.80

XLON

16:04:48

128

162.80

XLON

16:04:48

437

162.80

XLON

16:04:48

271

162.80

XLON

16:04:48

96

162.80

XLON

16:04:48

20

162.80

XLON

16:05:21

414

162.80

XLON

16:05:21

1,237

162.80

XLON

16:05:21

1,183

162.80

CHIX

16:09:21

1

162.70

CHIX

16:09:35

17

162.80

CHIX

16:09:36

1249

162.80

CHIX

16:09:54

128

163.00

BATE

16:09:54

400

163.00

BATE

16:09:54

400

163.00

BATE

16:09:54

294

163.00

BATE

16:09:54

1078

163.00

TRQX

16:10:21

1,478

162.80

XLON

16:14:47

1,250

162.80

XLON

16:18:02

588

162.80

BATE

16:18:02

647

162.80

BATE

16:18:02

668

162.60

CHIX

16:18:02

2018

162.70

XLON

16:18:02

2,241

162.70

XLON

16:18:54

130

162.60

TRQX

16:18:54

797

162.60

TRQX

16:20:45

1,250

162.80

BATE

16:20:45

1,659

162.80

BATE

16:20:47

379

162.30

XLON

16:25:00

400

162.30

XLON

16:25:00

275

162.30

CHIX

16:25:44

3

162.30

XLON

16:25:47

1,410

162.50

XLON

16:25:47

492

162.50

XLON

16:25:47

800

162.50

XLON

16:25:47

456

162.50

XLON

16:25:47

624

162.30

CHIX

16:27:39

64

162.20

BATE

16:28:17

800

162.50

XLON

16:28:17

640

162.50

XLON

16:28:17

1,109

162.50

BATE

16:28:17

1,010

162.50

BATE

16:28:17

257

162.50

BATE

16:29:43

180

162.80

BATE

16:29:43

632

162.80

BATE

16:29:43

169

162.80

BATE

16:29:43

283

162.80

BATE

16:29:43

4,576

162.70

XLON

16:29:43

32

162.60

XLON

16:29:43

1,213

162.50

BATE

16:29:47

176

162.80

BATE

16:29:47

13

162.80

BATE

16:29:47

14

162.80

BATE

16:29:47

129

162.80

BATE

16:29:48

914

162.80

BATE

16:29:48

11

164.00

BATE

16:29:48

345

164.00

BATE

16:29:48

345

164.00

BATE

16:29:48

230

164.00

BATE

16:29:48

274

164.00

BATE

16:29:55

19

161.00

XLON

 



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