Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC

12 February 2024

 

12 February 2024

S4 Capital plc

("S4Capital" or the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

In accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 26 January 2024, the Company announces that on 9 February 2024 it purchased 139,284 ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in the market through Dowgate Capital Limited. The Company intends that the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

Date of purchase:	9 February 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	139,284
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3740
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3900
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3832

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,064,256 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 1,298,450 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 581,765,806. 

The above figure of 581,765,806 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), (as in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme.

Shares purchased: S4 Capital plc (ISIN: GB00BFZZM640)

Individual transactions:

Number of Ordinary Shares purchased	Transaction price (GBP)	Time of transaction (UK Time)	Transaction reference number	Trading venue
6,077	0.3900	08:00:09	00037919058TRLO0	XLON
6,861	0.3820	08:17:04	00037919575TRLO0	XLON
708	0.3782	08:42:37	00037920172TRLO0	XLON
4,787	0.3782	08:44:37	00037920227TRLO0	XLON
580	0.3782	08:44:37	00037920226TRLO0	XLON
589	0.3754	08:46:37	00037920257TRLO0	XLON
711	0.3740	08:52:37	00037920372TRLO0	XLON
656	0.3740	08:54:37	00037920426TRLO0	XLON
643	0.3740	08:56:37	00037920458TRLO0	XLON
599	0.3740	08:58:37	00037920494TRLO0	XLON
690	0.3740	09:01:37	00037920561TRLO0	XLON
174	0.3740	09:02:11	00037920567TRLO0	XLON
2,668	0.3740	09:02:38	00037920576TRLO0	XLON
320	0.3740	09:03:37	00037920594TRLO0	XLON
597	0.3790	09:13:47	00037920770TRLO0	XLON
678	0.3800	09:32:00	00037921102TRLO0	XLON
492	0.3802	10:00:57	00037921857TRLO0	XLON
636	0.3802	10:02:57	00037921978TRLO0	XLON
6,957	0.3802	10:03:07	00037921994TRLO0	XLON
5,824	0.3802	10:03:07	00037921993TRLO0	XLON
618	0.3802	10:04:57	00037922156TRLO0	XLON
701	0.3802	10:06:57	00037922240TRLO0	XLON
656	0.3802	10:08:57	00037922312TRLO0	XLON
634	0.3802	10:10:57	00037922378TRLO0	XLON
642	0.3802	10:13:57	00037922477TRLO0	XLON
1,964	0.3802	10:15:57	00037922541TRLO0	XLON
644	0.3802	10:15:57	00037922540TRLO0	XLON
352	0.3782	11:06:05	00037924807TRLO0	XLON
708	0.3782	11:08:05	00037924899TRLO0	XLON
638	0.3826	11:31:18	00037925721TRLO0	XLON
707	0.3826	11:33:18	00037925754TRLO0	XLON
711	0.3826	11:35:18	00037925783TRLO0	XLON
650	0.3826	11:38:18	00037925872TRLO0	XLON
647	0.3826	11:40:18	00037926038TRLO0	XLON
709	0.3828	11:53:18	00037926491TRLO0	XLON
695	0.3828	11:56:18	00037926577TRLO0	XLON
623	0.3828	11:58:18	00037926617TRLO0	XLON
653	0.3828	12:00:18	00037926651TRLO0	XLON
703	0.3828	12:02:18	00037926686TRLO0	XLON
635	0.3828	12:04:18	00037926782TRLO0	XLON
659	0.3828	12:06:18	00037926826TRLO0	XLON
672	0.3828	12:09:18	00037926986TRLO0	XLON
520	0.3828	12:11:18	00037927106TRLO0	XLON
645	0.3828	12:42:45	00037928226TRLO0	XLON
663	0.3828	12:44:45	00037928301TRLO0	XLON
615	0.3828	12:47:45	00037928454TRLO0	XLON
618	0.3828	12:49:45	00037928606TRLO0	XLON
608	0.3828	12:51:45	00037928789TRLO0	XLON
648	0.3828	12:53:45	00037928829TRLO0	XLON
626	0.3828	12:55:45	00037928981TRLO0	XLON
578	0.3828	12:57:45	00037929046TRLO0	XLON
710	0.3828	12:59:45	00037929208TRLO0	XLON
647	0.3828	13:01:45	00037929283TRLO0	XLON
627	0.3828	13:01:45	00037929282TRLO0	XLON
618	0.3842	13:33:45	00037930207TRLO0	XLON
699	0.3842	13:35:45	00037930257TRLO0	XLON
679	0.3842	13:37:45	00037930287TRLO0	XLON
708	0.3842	13:39:45	00037930332TRLO0	XLON
658	0.3842	13:42:45	00037930393TRLO0	XLON
632	0.3842	13:44:45	00037930447TRLO0	XLON
610	0.3842	13:46:45	00037930495TRLO0	XLON
669	0.3842	13:48:45	00037930534TRLO0	XLON
17	0.3852	14:09:24	00037931172TRLO0	XLON
683	0.3852	14:11:24	00037931331TRLO0	XLON
3,419	0.3854	14:12:46	00037931362TRLO0	XLON
613	0.3854	14:13:24	00037931369TRLO0	XLON
682	0.3854	14:15:24	00037931498TRLO0	XLON
663	0.3854	14:17:24	00037931592TRLO0	XLON
399	0.3854	14:19:24	00037931690TRLO0	XLON
510	0.3844	15:00:24	00037936297TRLO0	XLON
628	0.3844	15:02:24	00037936479TRLO0	XLON
680	0.3844	15:04:24	00037936614TRLO0	XLON
650	0.3844	15:06:24	00037936751TRLO0	XLON
604	0.3844	15:08:24	00037936849TRLO0	XLON
703	0.3844	15:10:24	00037936953TRLO0	XLON
610	0.3844	15:12:27	00037937155TRLO0	XLON
671	0.3844	15:14:27	00037937273TRLO0	XLON
642	0.3844	15:16:27	00037937424TRLO0	XLON
605	0.3844	15:19:27	00037937582TRLO0	XLON
614	0.3844	15:21:27	00037937804TRLO0	XLON
300	0.3844	15:23:27	00037937948TRLO0	XLON
590	0.3834	15:57:28	00037940646TRLO0	XLON
465	0.3838	15:59:28	00037940807TRLO0	XLON
648	0.3838	16:01:28	00037940918TRLO0	XLON
665	0.3838	16:03:28	00037941065TRLO0	XLON
621	0.3838	16:06:28	00037941206TRLO0	XLON
1,414	0.3842	16:29:50	00037942638TRLO0	XLON
47	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942983TRLO0	XLON
2,408	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942982TRLO0	XLON
2,010	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942981TRLO0	XLON
60	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942980TRLO0	XLON
2,307	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942979TRLO0	XLON
515	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942978TRLO0	XLON
7,627	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942977TRLO0	XLON
5,098	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942976TRLO0	XLON
723	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942975TRLO0	XLON
5,112	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942974TRLO0	XLON
822	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942973TRLO0	XLON
5,931	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942972TRLO0	XLON
979	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942971TRLO0	XLON
9,345	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942970TRLO0	XLON
64	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942969TRLO0	XLON
7	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942968TRLO0	XLON
1,748	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942967TRLO0	XLON
4,779	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942966TRLO0	XLON
1,960	0.3852	16:35:16	00037942965TRLO0	XLON

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

Enquiries:

S4Capital	Tel: [phone]
Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)
Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital)	Tel: [phone]
Elly Williamson
Pete Lambie

About S4 Capital

S⁴ Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&Digital Media and Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure. Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Christopher S. Martin, Scott Spirit and Mary Basterfield all joined the S4 Capital Board as Executive Directors. The S4 Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young and Colin Day.

The Company now has approximately 7,700 people in 32 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 25% and Technology Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of 50%:25%:25%.

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

 

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