Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5910T
IG Group Holdings plc
21 March 2023
 

21 March 2023

 

IG Group Holdings PLC (the Company)

 

Purchase of own shares

 

 

IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company") announces today that it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 0.005 pence each through Goldman Sachs International ("GSI") on the London Stock Exchange in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 21 September 2022 (the "Purchase"). The Purchase was effected pursuant to instructions issued by the Company on 24 October 2022, as announced on 25 October 2022.

 

Date of purchase:

20 March 2023



Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

167,059



Lowest price paid per share:

£ 6.6900



Highest price paid per share:

£ 6.9250



Average price paid per share:

£ 6.8208

 

 

The Company intends to cancel the purchased shares.

 

Since 21 July 2022, the Company has purchased 19,248,265 shares at a cost (including dealing and associated costs) of £ 150,750,007.78.

 

These purchases are the last purchases to be made under the second tranche of the programme between the Company, on the one hand, and Goldman Sachs International, on the other hand, announced on 25 October 2022, and that the second tranche of that programme has been completed in accordance with its terms. This completes the £150m buyback programme announced by the Company on 21 July 2022.

 

 

Schedule of Purchases

 

Shares purchased: 167,059 (ISIN: GB00B06QFB75)

 

Date of purchases: 20 March 2023

 

Investment firm: Goldman Sachs International

 

Aggregated information:

 


London Stock Exchange

Cboe BXE

Cboe CXE

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Number of ordinary shares purchased

148,131

18,327

601


Highest price paid (per ordinary share)

£ 6.9250

£ 6.9200

£ 6.9000


Lowest price paid (per ordinary share)

£ 6.6900

£ 6.7000

£ 6.8700


Volume weighted average price paid (per ordinary share)

£ 6.8218

£ 6.8112

£ 6.8856


 

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