Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4593H
CRH PLC
01 August 2019
 

 

1st August 2019

 

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

 

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 31st July 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: 

35,000

50,000



Highest price paid per share:

GBp 2746.0

€30.07



Lowest price paid per share:

GBp 2744.0

€30.02



Volume weighted average price paid:

GBp 2745.4

€30.05



 

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

 

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 44,502,118 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 5.27% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 798,888,220 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: 00 3531 6344340

 



 

 

 

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

2745.4

35,000

Euronext Dublin

EUR

30.05 

50,000

 

Euronext Stock Exchange

 

 

Number of Shares

Price Per Share (EUR)

Currency

Trade Time

Trading Venue

MatchID

15000

30.07

EUR

10:46:54 AM

ISE

00029629684TRLO0-1

20000

 

30.05

EUR

10:55:33 AM

ISE

00029629896TRLO0-1

15000

30.02

EUR

1:24:02 PM

ISE

00029633010TRLO0-1

 

London Stock Exchange

 

 

Number of Shares

Price Per Share (GBp)

Currency

Trade Time

Trading Venue

MatchID

10000

2744

GBp

3:03:08 PM

LSE

00029635871TRLO0-1

25000

 

2746

GBp

4:19:37 PM

LSE

00029639813TRLO0-1

 


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