Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2896Y

CRH PLC

08 May 2019

 

8^th May 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 7^th May 2019 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the "ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange and/or Euronext Dublin, from CRH's broker J&E Davy. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

			London Stock Exchange	Euronext Dublin
Number of ordinary shares purchased:			116,895	293,716
Highest price paid per share:			GBp 2589.0	€30.31
Lowest price paid per share:			GBp 2528.0	€29.49
Volume weighted average price paid:			GBp 2541.1	€29.87

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to €350 million in the period to 16^th August 2019 following its announcement on 24^th April 2019 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 29^th April 2019.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 35,811,391 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 807,578,947 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made by J&E Davy on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

Contact:

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Issuer name:		CRH plc
LEI		549300MIDJNNTH068E74
ISIN:		IE0001827041
Intermediary name:		J&E Davy
Intermediary code:		DAVYIE21
Time zone:		BST
Currency:		GBp & EUR (as indicated below)
Aggregated Information
Trading venue		Currency	Volume Weighted Average Price	Aggregated volume
London Stock Exchange		GBp	2541.1	116,895
Euronext Dublin		EUR	29.87	293,716

Euronext Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (GBp)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
10000	30.31	EUR	8:21:53 AM	ISE	00028934654TRLO0-1
4000	30.19	EUR	8:38:11 AM	ISE	00028934837TRLO0-1
4000	30.08	EUR	9:34:00 AM	ISE	00028935502TRLO0-1
3000	29.88	EUR	10:20:42 AM	ISE	00028936113TRLO0-1
149086	30. 0	EUR	10:30:36 AM	ISE	00028944506TRLO0-1
5000	29.80	EUR	11:19:48 AM	ISE	00028937010TRLO0-1
6000	29.79	EUR	11:24:57 AM	ISE	00028937049TRLO0-1
10000	29.76	EUR	12:38:50 PM	ISE	00028938022TRLO0-1
15000	29.75	EUR	12:41:03 PM	ISE	00028938064TRLO0-1
7000	29.77	EUR	12:51:02 PM	ISE	00028938194TRLO0-1
9630	29.67	EUR	1:52:55 PM	ISE	00028938930TRLO0-1
5000	29.65	EUR	2:00:09 PM	ISE	00028939014TRLO0-1
5000	29.65	EUR	2:00:23 PM	ISE	00028939023TRLO0-1
10000	29.65	EUR	2:46:06 PM	ISE	00028939788TRLO0-1
3000	29.62	EUR	2:58:35 PM	ISE	00028940020TRLO0-1
20000	29.57	EUR	3:09:01 PM	ISE	00028940300TRLO0-1
10000	29.57	EUR	3:14:15 PM	ISE	00028940516TRLO0-1
8000	29.58	EUR	3:36:17 PM	ISE	00028941395TRLO0-1
10000	29.49	EUR	4:00:32 PM	ISE	00028942174TRLO0-1

London Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (GBp)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
2000	2589	GBp	8:10:04 AM	LSE	00028934532TRLO0-1
4000	2571	GBp	9:45:06 AM	LSE	00028935632TRLO0-1
4000	2560	GBp	10:02:21 AM	LSE	00028935917TRLO0-1
5000	2557	GBp	10:25:20 AM	LSE	00028936190TRLO0-1
2500	2548	GBp	11:13:21 AM	LSE	00028936950TRLO0-1
10000	2548	GBp	11:23:54 AM	LSE	00028937043TRLO0-1
5000	2549	GBp	11:31:58 AM	LSE	00028937168TRLO0-1
48395	2537	GBp	11:51:49 AM	LSE	00028937425TRLO0-1
5000	2544	GBp	12:44:23 PM	LSE	00028938099TRLO0-1
11000	2533	GBp	2:16:30 PM	LSE	00028939218TRLO0-1
10000	2532	GBp	3:14:58 PM	LSE	00028940599TRLO0-1
10000	2528	GBp	4:07:49 PM	LSE	00028942431TRLO0-1

 

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