Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1002D

CRH PLC

24 June 2019

 

24^th June 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 21^st 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:			174,600	176,500
Highest price paid per share:			GBp 2589.0	€29.07
Lowest price paid per share:			GBp 2547.0	€28.48
Volume weighted average price paid:			GBp 2557.4	€28.87

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 41,685,334 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 801,705,004 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	2557.4	174,600
Euronext Dublin		EUR	28.87	176,500

Euronext Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (EUR)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
25000	28.94	EUR	8:00:48 AM	ISE	00029303056TRLO0-1
15000	29.03	EUR	8:27:36 AM	ISE	00029303407TRLO0-1
20000	29.06	EUR	8:29:06 AM	ISE	00029303419TRLO0-1
12000	29.07	EUR	8:31:07 AM	ISE	00029303458TRLO0-1
25000	29. 0	EUR	10:16:19 AM	ISE	00029305258TRLO0-1
15000	28.94	EUR	10:40:49 AM	ISE	00029305608TRLO0-1
4500	28.80	EUR	11:17:42 AM	ISE	00029307315TRLO0-1
15000	28.78	EUR	11:20:15 AM	ISE	00029307376TRLO0-1
20000	28.63	EUR	12:19:50 PM	ISE	00029308378TRLO0-1
5000	28.54	EUR	1:52:02 PM	ISE	00029309888TRLO0-1
10000	28.48	EUR	2:08:58 PM	ISE	00029310205TRLO0-1
10000	28.64	EUR	2:40:15 PM	ISE	00029311298TRLO0-1

London Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (GBp)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
10000	2589	GBp	8:42:58 AM	LSE	00029303679TRLO0-1
10000	2565	GBp	11:45:34 AM	LSE	00029307811TRLO0-1
10000	2561	GBp	11:52:04 AM	LSE	00029307875TRLO0-1
10000	2565	GBp	1:05:03 PM	LSE	00029309048TRLO0-1
15000	2554	GBp	2:45:20 PM	LSE	00029311514TRLO0-1
10000	2552	GBp	2:51:18 PM	LSE	00029311694TRLO0-1
12000	2557	GBp	2:56:57 PM	LSE	00029311904TRLO0-1
15000	2554	GBp	3:09:22 PM	LSE	00029312288TRLO0-1
12000	2549	GBp	3:23:40 PM	LSE	00029312671TRLO0-1
10000	2547	GBp	3:34:35 PM	LSE	00029313142TRLO0-1
15000	2551	GBp	3:38:08 PM	LSE	00029313261TRLO0-1
10000	2558	GBp	3:45:22 PM	LSE	00029313478TRLO0-1
15600	2558	GBp	3:46:29 PM	LSE	00029313505TRLO0-1
10000	2558	GBp	3:52:08 PM	LSE	00029313616TRLO0-1
10000	2551	GBp	3:59:02 PM	LSE	00029313910TRLO0-1

 

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