Transaction in Own Shares

JPMorgan US Smaller Co. IT

26 March 2024

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

JPMORGAN US SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

(the 'Company')

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300MDD7SOXDMBN667

The Company announces that, on 26 March 2024, it re-purchased 99,990 ordinary shares ('Ordinary Shares') for cancellation at 400.5 pence per share (the 'Repurchase').

The Ordinary Shares, the subject of the Repurchase, were those of untraced shareholders, i.e. shareholders who had not claimed or cashed any dividend payments from the Company over a period of at least 12 years. The Repurchase, which was undertaken in accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, only took place after an extensive shareholder identification and share forfeit notification process by the Company.

The Repurchase equates to approximately 0.2 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Shares and was undertaken in accordance with the terms of the general authority to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares granted to the Company by its shareholders at its Annual General meeting on 24 April 2023. The Repurchase was executed on the London Stock Exchange through the Company's broker, Deutsche Numis.

Following the Repurchase, the Company has 63,273,209 Ordinary shares in issue. This figure excludes 2,133,066 ordinary shares held by the Company in Treasury.

26 March 2024

For further information, please contact:

Lucy Dina

JPMorgan Funds Limited

0800 20 40 20 (or [phone])

 

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