Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6894I

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

16 March 2010

 

BAE Systems plc (the "Company"): Transaction in own shares

BAE Systems plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 2.5p each via UBS Investment Bank. BAE Systems plc intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Date of purchase:                                                           16 March 2010

Number of ordinary shares purchased:                            1,400,000

Highest price paid per share:                                           377.1p

Lowest price paid per share:                                           375p

Volume weighted average price paid per share:               376.1652p

Following the purchase of these shares, BAE Systems plc holds 71,232,669 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,514,885,747 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

 

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