Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9944J

HSBC Holdings PLC

22 August 2019

 

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

22 August 2019

Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc ("Morgan Stanley") as part of its buy-back announced on 6 August 2019.

Date of purchase:	22 August 2019
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:	6,256,333
Highest price paid per share:	£5.9900
Lowest price paid per share:	£5.9030
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	£5.9486

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,548,286,553 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Therefore the total voting rights in the Company will be 20,223,013,146. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9944J_1-2019-8-22.pdf

This announcement will also be available on HSBC's website at www.hsbc.com/sea

Enquiries to:

JJ Williams

Shareholder Services

[phone]

 

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