Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8200C

CRH PLC

20 June 2019

 

20^th June 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 19^th June 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:			97,000	227,500
Highest price paid per share:			GBp 2552.0	€28.63
Lowest price paid per share:			GBp 2534.0	€28.41
Volume weighted average price paid:			GBp 2540.2	€28.55

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 41,157,234 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 802,233,104 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	2540.2	97,000
Euronext Dublin		EUR	28.55	227,500

Euronext Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (EUR)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
14000	28.49	EUR	8:03:17 AM	ISE	00029283332TRLO0-1
15000	28.48	EUR	8:03:53 AM	ISE	00029283335TRLO0-1
5000	28.60	EUR	8:14:41 AM	ISE	00029283601TRLO0-1
16000	28.62	EUR	8:25:00 AM	ISE	00029283858TRLO0-1
15000	28.61	EUR	8:41:54 AM	ISE	00029284119TRLO0-1
15000	28.45	EUR	8:58:31 AM	ISE	00029284403TRLO0-1
10000	28.41	EUR	9:00:15 AM	ISE	00029284439TRLO0-1
15000	28.55	EUR	9:47:58 AM	ISE	00029285210TRLO0-1
7500	28.55	EUR	10:07:00 AM	ISE	00029285548TRLO0-1
15000	28.58	EUR	10:31:06 AM	ISE	00029285877TRLO0-1
12000	28.60	EUR	11:27:51 AM	ISE	00029286718TRLO0-1
12000	28.59	EUR	11:43:06 AM	ISE	00029286894TRLO0-1
20000	28.57	EUR	12:37:09 PM	ISE	00029287516TRLO0-1
12000	28.63	EUR	12:51:30 PM	ISE	00029287712TRLO0-1
15000	28.57	EUR	2:43:13 PM	ISE	00029289421TRLO0-1
29000	28.56	EUR	2:45:53 PM	ISE	00029289477TRLO0-1

London Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (GBp)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
35000	2534	GBp	9:06:32 AM	LSE	00029284617TRLO0-1
10000	2546	GBp	9:28:54 AM	LSE	00029284925TRLO0-1
10000	2544	GBp	10:15:30 AM	LSE	00029285651TRLO0-1
12000	2552	GBp	1:02:08 PM	LSE	00029287925TRLO0-1
10000	2543	GBp	2:29:15 PM	LSE	00029289191TRLO0-1
5000	2540	GBp	2:51:50 PM	LSE	00029289634TRLO0-1
15000	2537	GBp	3:03:23 PM	LSE	00029289964TRLO0-1

 

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