Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5352X

Balfour Beatty PLC

05 May 2021

 

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

5 May 2021

Balfour Beatty plc (the "Group" or "Balfour Beatty"), the international infrastructure group, announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 5 January 2021 and increased on 10 March 2021 (the "Share Buyback"), the Group purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 50 pence each through BofA Securities.

Date of purchase:	4 May 2021
Aggregate number of ordinary shares of 50 pence each purchased:	431,385
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	317.8000
Lowest price paid per share (GBp):	310.6000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	314.8703

The Group will hold the repurchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 669,480,637 (excluding treasury shares).

The Group has to date, under the Share Buyback, repurchased 20,258,982 ordinary shares at a volume weighted average price of 293.5701 pence, which are to be held in treasury with no voting rights attached. The shares repurchased under the Share Buyback are the only shares held in treasury by the Group.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the table available on the Company's website here contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by BofA Securities as part of the Share Buyback.

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased according to each trading venue:

Venue	Weighted average price paid per share (GBp)	Aggregate number of shares purchased	Lowest price paid per share (GBp)	Highest price paid per share (GBp)
London Stock Exchange	314.5762	272,038	311.0000	317.8000
Turquoise	315.7478	24,988	311.0000	317.4000
Chi-X (CXE)	315.5597	36,707	310.8000	317.6000
BATS (BXE)	315.2059	97,652	310.6000	317.2000

Analyst/investor enquiries:

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Media enquiries: 

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Notes to editors:

· Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with 26,000 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow. 

· We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.

· Over the last 112 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including: the £1.5 billion A14 improvement scheme - Britain's biggest road project; Hong Kong's HK$5.5 billion world-class harbour theatre project for the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; and the 12.5 mile $429 million North Metro Commuter Rail line in Colorado, US.

 

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