Transaction in Own Shares & Completion of Buy-back

Barclays PLC

06 December 2024

 

06 December 2024

Barclays PLC

Transaction in own shares and completion of buy-back

Barclays PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Citigroup Global Markets Limited as part of its buy-back announced on 5 August 2024:

Date of purchase:	05 December 2024
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,561,449
Highest price paid per share:	267.0000p
Lowest price paid per share:	264.6000p
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	265.6050p

The Company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares.

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 14,417,914,632 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The above figure (14,417,914,632) may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended, a full breakdown of the individual purchases of ordinary shares made by Citigroup Global Markets Limited on behalf of the Company can be found at:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0327P_1-2024-12-5.pdf

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these shares, the share buy-back programme announced on 5 August 2024 has completed. Since the commencement of the buy-back, the Company has repurchased for cancellation 320,247,475 ordinary shares in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 234.1939p per ordinary share for a total consideration of approximately £750 million.

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