Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7263G
Ashtead Group PLC
09 August 2016
 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

Ashtead Group plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 2 September 2015, the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme initially announced on 14 June 2016:

 

Date of purchase:                                            09 August 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   45,392 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1200.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1191.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1197.2377 pence

               

               

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.              

               

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds  51,951,989 Shares in Treasury.   

               

The Company has 501,373,565 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury).This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

The schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Barclays on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Ashtead Group plc

 

Will Shaw, Director of Investor Relations, +44 (0)20 7726 9700

 

  

Schedule of Purchases

 

Shares purchased:           Ashtead Group PLC (ISIN CODE: GB000536739)

Date of purchases:          09 August 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1197.6104

6,825

Chi-X Europe

1197.3385

2,691

Turquoise

1195.8454

4,283

London Stock Exchange

1197.3374

31,593

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

117

12.00

08:01:01

London Stock Exchange

1120

11.99

08:02:03

London Stock Exchange

289

12.00

12:04:12

London Stock Exchange

632

11.99

12:04:13

Turquoise

108

11.99

12:04:16

Chi-X Europe

1121

11.99

12:04:17

London Stock Exchange

134

11.99

12:04:17

Turquoise

361

11.99

12:04:17

Chi-X Europe

994

11.98

12:04:21

London Stock Exchange

174

11.98

12:04:21

London Stock Exchange

302

11.99

12:05:08

London Stock Exchange

951

12.00

12:06:55

London Stock Exchange

147

12.00

12:06:55

London Stock Exchange

676

12.00

12:06:55

London Stock Exchange

442

12.00

12:07:50

Chi-X Europe

402

12.00

12:07:50

BATS Europe

290

12.00

12:08:57

London Stock Exchange

731

12.00

12:08:57

London Stock Exchange

1199

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

45

12.00

12:11:17

Turquoise

500

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

314

11.99

12:11:17

BATS Europe

602

11.99

12:11:17

BATS Europe

120

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

417

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

979

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

344

12.00

12:11:17

Chi-X Europe

341

12.00

12:11:17

London Stock Exchange

1155

11.99

12:11:18

London Stock Exchange

663

11.99

12:11:19

London Stock Exchange

301

11.99

12:11:19

London Stock Exchange

1163

11.99

12:11:19

London Stock Exchange

507

11.99

12:11:19

London Stock Exchange

260

11.99

12:11:19

BATS Europe

166

11.99

12:11:19

BATS Europe

468

11.99

12:14:25

London Stock Exchange

83

11.99

12:22:55

London Stock Exchange

431

11.99

12:22:55

London Stock Exchange

1113

11.97

12:28:01

London Stock Exchange

308

11.97

12:28:01

London Stock Exchange

435

11.98

12:33:45

BATS Europe

734

11.98

12:33:48

London Stock Exchange

289

11.98

12:33:48

London Stock Exchange

320

11.97

12:33:49

London Stock Exchange

333

11.97

12:42:11

BATS Europe

855

11.97

12:42:12

London Stock Exchange

283

11.97

12:42:12

London Stock Exchange

260

11.97

12:42:12

London Stock Exchange

24

11.97

12:42:12

London Stock Exchange

377

11.97

12:42:12

BATS Europe

545

11.97

12:42:12

BATS Europe

381

11.97

12:42:12

London Stock Exchange

289

11.97

12:46:37

London Stock Exchange

501

11.96

12:46:41

London Stock Exchange

393

11.96

12:46:41

London Stock Exchange

441

11.96

12:46:45

Chi-X Europe

12

11.97

12:49:06

London Stock Exchange

301

11.97

12:49:06

London Stock Exchange

491

11.96

12:53:03

BATS Europe

532

11.96

12:53:03

London Stock Exchange

313

11.96

12:53:03

BATS Europe

390

11.91

12:53:50

London Stock Exchange

209

11.91

12:54:27

Chi-X Europe

524

11.92

12:54:27

London Stock Exchange

347

11.96

13:02:15

London Stock Exchange

260

11.96

13:02:16

BATS Europe

64

11.96

13:02:16

BATS Europe

6

11.96

13:02:16

London Stock Exchange

64

11.96

13:04:08

BATS Europe

225

11.96

13:04:08

BATS Europe

370

11.95

13:05:30

London Stock Exchange

441

11.95

13:07:28

London Stock Exchange

740

11.94

13:07:44

London Stock Exchange

667

11.94

13:08:41

London Stock Exchange

300

11.95

13:09:33

London Stock Exchange

355

11.95

13:09:33

London Stock Exchange

290

11.95

13:13:29

Turquoise

372

11.95

13:13:29

London Stock Exchange

1046

11.95

13:17:52

London Stock Exchange

490

11.95

13:17:52

London Stock Exchange

296

11.95

13:17:52

Chi-X Europe

354

11.95

13:17:52

London Stock Exchange

276

11.95

13:17:52

London Stock Exchange

289

11.95

13:31:07

Turquoise

58

11.95

13:32:29

London Stock Exchange

504

11.95

13:32:29

London Stock Exchange

255

11.95

13:39:13

BATS Europe

86

11.95

13:39:13

BATS Europe

289

11.95

13:40:52

London Stock Exchange

321

11.95

13:42:59

London Stock Exchange

558

11.95

13:46:34

Turquoise

692

11.95

13:46:34

Turquoise

607

11.95

13:46:34

London Stock Exchange

638

11.94

13:54:33

Turquoise

610

11.94

13:54:33

Turquoise

580

11.94

13:54:33

London Stock Exchange

722

11.94

13:54:33

London Stock Exchange

334

11.96

14:11:01

BATS Europe

138

11.96

14:11:01

BATS Europe

98

11.96

14:11:36

Chi-X Europe

29

11.97

14:12:23

BATS Europe

139

11.97

14:12:23

Chi-X Europe

73

11.97

14:12:23

Chi-X Europe

180

11.97

14:12:23

Chi-X Europe

216

11.98

14:16:21

BATS Europe

276

11.98

14:16:21

BATS Europe

215

11.99

14:21:57

Turquoise

180

11.99

14:21:57

Turquoise

351

12.00

14:25:10

BATS Europe

8

12.00

14:25:40

BATS Europe

281

12.00

14:25:40

BATS Europe

 


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