Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6806W

Barclays PLC

22 August 2022

 

22 August 2022

Barclays PLC

Transaction in own shares

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 29 July 2022:

Date of purchase:	19 August 2022
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	11,898,000
Highest price paid per share:	169.1800p
Lowest price paid per share:	164.9600p
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	167.3074p

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

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital consists of 16,139,998,649 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The above figure (16,139,998,649) 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/6806W_1-2022-8-19.pdf

Since the commencement of the share buy-back programme announced on 29 July 2022 , the Company has purchased 14,304,225 ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 167.6326p per ordinary share.

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