Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1816G

Ascential PLC

13 March 2020

 

13 March 2020

Ascential plc

("the Company")

Transaction in own shares

Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), the global specialist information company, announces that on 13 March 2020 it purchased through Numis Securities Limited the following number of its ordinary shares for Cancellation at an average price of 281.1815 pence per share:

Number of ordinarysharespurchased:	220,000
Highest purchase price paidpershare:	289.00p
Lowest purchase price paidpershare:	274.00p

Following the above transaction, there are 402,845,798 ordinary shares of 1p each of Ascential plc in issue. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury at the date of this disclosure.

Therefore the above figure (402,845,798) can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to, their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Numis Securities Limited on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

Enquiries:

Louise Meads, Company Secretary  [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (per share)	Time of transaction	Execution venue
1369	275.0	08:19:21	XLON
1499	275.0	08:19:30	XLON
5902	275.0	08:19:34	XLON
351	275.0	08:19:34	XLON
1112	275.0	08:19:34	XLON
1427	276.2	08:21:33	XLON
1361	275.6	08:23:18	XLON
1303	276.2	08:26:12	XLON
1459	275.6	08:30:02	XLON
675	274.4	08:32:04	XLON
743	274.4	08:32:04	XLON
1415	275.0	08:36:09	XLON
1337	275.0	08:36:57	XLON
720	275.0	08:39:16	XLON
599	275.0	08:39:16	XLON
1315	276.0	08:43:33	XLON
1409	276.0	08:51:04	XLON
1051	277.2	08:53:04	XLON
452	277.2	08:53:08	XLON
1217	276.8	08:53:32	XLON
97	276.8	08:53:32	XLON
839	276.4	08:54:30	XLON
717	276.4	08:55:58	XLON
582	276.4	08:55:58	XLON
427	276.4	08:55:58	XLON
797	275.6	08:59:21	XLON
500	275.6	08:59:21	XLON
1326	276.0	09:08:41	XLON
776	276.0	09:08:41	XLON
454	276.0	09:08:41	XLON
1458	284.8	10:06:12	XLON
1225	285.2	10:07:42	XLON
1386	287.0	10:23:34	XLON
880	286.4	10:23:49	XLON
800	286.4	10:23:49	XLON
1254	285.6	10:26:25	XLON
281	284.6	10:28:27	XLON
1000	284.6	10:28:27	XLON
1462	287.0	10:48:23	XLON
189	285.4	10:49:23	XLON
1176	285.4	10:51:55	XLON
630	285.2	10:58:42	XLON
710	285.2	10:58:42	XLON
405	288.2	11:05:10	XLON
701	289.0	13:35:34	XLON
1278	289.0	13:35:34	XLON
1497	289.0	13:35:34	XLON
1315	289.0	13:35:34	XLON
17835	289.0	13:35:34	XLON
1525	289.0	13:39:36	XLON
15462	289.0	13:39:36	XLON
659	289.0	13:39:36	XLON
1410	288.8	13:41:12	XLON
1501	288.4	13:42:11	XLON
1304	287.8	13:45:40	XLON
1271	289.0	13:50:17	XLON
1329	287.2	13:52:33	XLON
1237	285.2	13:59:39	XLON
1459	287.0	14:04:38	XLON
1460	286.0	14:09:54	XLON
1409	285.6	14:16:32	XLON
1304	288.0	14:27:37	XLON
1239	287.4	14:29:42	XLON
1169	285.2	14:38:05	XLON
61	285.2	14:38:05	XLON
189	285.2	14:38:05	XLON
2040	286.0	14:48:54	XLON
1377	285.6	14:51:38	XLON
1554	284.4	14:53:50	XLON
1419	285.4	14:54:42	XLON
1384	285.2	14:54:47	XLON
1416	284.4	14:58:08	XLON
1409	283.8	14:59:17	XLON
400	283.0	15:01:29	XLON
1043	283.0	15:01:29	XLON
1429	281.8	15:02:44	XLON
1258	279.8	15:05:38	XLON
431	283.0	15:07:20	XLON
578	283.0	15:07:20	XLON
578	283.0	15:07:20	XLON
578	283.0	15:07:20	XLON
1598	282.6	15:07:22	XLON
1032	282.6	15:08:23	XLON
278	282.6	15:08:23	XLON
520	282.4	15:08:23	XLON
960	282.4	15:08:23	XLON
708	281.8	15:10:16	XLON
39	281.8	15:10:16	XLON
800	281.8	15:10:16	XLON
359	281.4	15:11:16	XLON
1308	281.4	15:11:16	XLON
1518	281.0	15:13:11	XLON
2095	278.4	15:31:55	XLON
1396	278.4	15:31:55	XLON
1267	277.4	15:32:40	XLON
1328	275.8	15:36:45	XLON
567	277.0	15:42:36	XLON
339	277.0	15:42:36	XLON
1396	276.8	15:45:25	XLON
1376	276.8	15:45:25	XLON
1732	276.6	15:46:23	XLON
138	275.8	15:49:57	XLON
500	275.8	15:49:57	XLON
1600	275.8	15:49:57	XLON
76	275.8	15:49:57	XLON
1444	276.8	15:51:10	XLON
1290	277.8	15:52:16	XLON
1269	277.6	15:52:30	XLON
668	277.4	15:52:30	XLON
634	277.4	15:52:30	XLON
1269	277.4	15:52:30	XLON
1463	277.2	15:53:09	XLON
1467	281.2	15:57:34	XLON
1242	281.2	15:57:34	XLON
1253	281.4	15:58:32	XLON
670	281.6	15:58:32	XLON
1302	281.4	15:59:26	XLON
1387	281.4	15:59:26	XLON
1850	281.0	15:59:30	XLON
1386	280.4	15:59:31	XLON
1727	280.4	16:01:49	XLON
1481	279.2	16:02:13	XLON
1719	276.8	16:05:11	XLON
1234	274.8	16:07:07	XLON
1356	274.4	16:07:48	XLON
582	274.0	16:08:02	XLON
818	274.0	16:08:02	XLON
934	277.0	16:09:50	XLON
372	277.0	16:09:50	XLON
265	276.8	16:09:53	XLON
800	276.8	16:09:53	XLON
292	276.8	16:09:53	XLON
508	276.8	16:09:53	XLON
971	276.8	16:09:53	XLON
1297	276.6	16:09:53	XLON
1434	276.6	16:11:29	XLON
1376	277.2	16:12:15	XLON
1267	276.8	16:12:22	XLON
1503	277.2	16:13:19	XLON
434	276.6	16:13:23	XLON
1415	276.6	16:13:23	XLON
1434	277.4	16:15:42	XLON
1645	277.4	16:15:42	XLON
2082	276.6	16:18:10	XLON
2417	276.6	16:18:10	XLON
1042	277.2	16:20:17	XLON
252	277.2	16:20:17	XLON
1401	276.8	16:20:45	XLON
1457	276.8	16:20:45	XLON
1053	276.8	16:21:04	XLON
466	276.8	16:21:04	XLON
1519	276.6	16:21:04	XLON
1515	277.4	16:22:30	XLON
66	277.2	16:22:44	XLON
1312	277.2	16:22:46	XLON
1364	277.4	16:22:46	XLON
59	276.8	16:23:21	XLON
644	276.8	16:23:21	XLON
51	276.8	16:23:21	XLON
207	276.8	16:23:21	XLON
286	277.4	16:23:59	XLON
1633	277.4	16:24:00	XLON
1461	277.4	16:24:01	XLON
1502	277.4	16:24:07	XLON
1323	277.0	16:25:06	XLON
1482	277.0	16:25:06	XLON
886	276.6	16:25:10	XLON
507	276.6	16:25:10	XLON
481	276.8	16:25:50	XLON
2008	276.8	16:25:57	XLON
1325	276.8	16:26:05	XLON
148	276.8	16:26:05	XLON
11	277.0	16:26:20	XLON
66	277.0	16:26:20	XLON
2412	277.0	16:26:20	XLON
57	277.0	16:26:20	XLON
272	277.0	16:26:55	XLON
242	277.0	16:26:55	XLON
1008	277.0	16:26:57	XLON

 

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