Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4197E

Hunting PLC

28 February 2020

 

For Immediate Release

28 February 2020

Hunting PLC

("Hunting" or "the Company" or "the Group")

Transaction in Own Shares

Hunting PLC (the "Company"), the international energy services group, today announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Company, the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.25 each ("Shares") on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) as part of the buyback programme announced on 27 February 2020: (the "Programme"):

Date of purchase:	27 February 2020
Venue:	London Stock Exchange
Number of Shares purchased:	42,690
Highest price paid per Share (pence):	314.4000
Lowest price paid per Share (pence):	286.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per Share (pence):	303.7023
Broker:	Barclays Bank PLC

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.

The Company has 166,940,082 Shares in issue. This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can 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 and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is attached to this announcement via the link below.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/4197E_1-2020-2-27.pdf

For further information, please contact :

Hunting PLC  Ben Willey, Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Shares purchased: Hunting PLC's (ISDN Code: 2138008S5FL78ITZRN66)

 

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