Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC
05 March 2024
 

5 March 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 4 March 2024 it purchased 348,157 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:

4 March 2024

Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:

348,157

Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.3950

Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.4074

Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.4015

 

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,491,444 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 4,974,991 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 578,516,453. 

 

The above figure of 578,516,453 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



 1,653

 0.4074

08:00:15

00038306204TRLO0

XLON


 6,362

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307864TRLO0

XLON


 446

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307863TRLO0

XLON


 954

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307862TRLO0

XLON


 25

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307861TRLO0

XLON


 2,283

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307860TRLO0

XLON


 10,812

 0.4028

08:44:56

00038307859TRLO0

XLON


 4,380

 0.4000

08:47:00

00038307935TRLO0

XLON


 7,706

 0.4066

09:36:26

00038309300TRLO0

XLON


 143

 0.4066

09:53:07

00038309681TRLO0

XLON


 7,291

 0.4066

09:53:07

00038309680TRLO0

XLON


 17,563

 0.4066

09:53:07

00038309679TRLO0

XLON


 17,262

 0.4000

11:55:47

00038314388TRLO0

XLON


 50

 0.4000

11:55:47

00038314387TRLO0

XLON


 9,511

 0.4000

11:55:49

00038314389TRLO0

XLON


 8,220

 0.4000

11:55:51

00038314391TRLO0

XLON


 7,707

 0.4000

11:56:16

00038314427TRLO0

XLON


 3,964

 0.4000

12:00:36

00038314627TRLO0

XLON


 2,808

 0.4000

12:01:17

00038314645TRLO0

XLON


 419

 0.4000

12:01:17

00038314644TRLO0

XLON


 235

 0.4002

12:58:08

00038316757TRLO0

XLON


 6,321

 0.4002

12:58:11

00038316764TRLO0

XLON


 324

 0.4002

12:58:11

00038316763TRLO0

XLON


 8,254

 0.4002

12:58:11

00038316762TRLO0

XLON


 128

 0.4002

12:58:11

00038316761TRLO0

XLON


 6,735

 0.4018

14:48:21

00038321190TRLO0

XLON


 7,392

 0.4012

14:48:57

00038321201TRLO0

XLON


 2,074

 0.4012

14:48:57

00038321200TRLO0

XLON


 185

 0.4000

14:50:58

00038321313TRLO0

XLON


 458

 0.4000

14:50:58

00038321312TRLO0

XLON


 7,203

 0.4000

14:57:24

00038321639TRLO0

XLON


 7,146

 0.4000

14:57:24

00038321638TRLO0

XLON


 4,365

 0.4000

14:59:32

00038321729TRLO0

XLON


 4,733

 0.4000

14:59:32

00038321728TRLO0

XLON


 2,814

 0.4002

15:06:04

00038321998TRLO0

XLON


 5,600

 0.4002

15:06:04

00038321997TRLO0

XLON


 11,334

 0.4000

15:06:04

00038321996TRLO0

XLON


 13,100

 0.3980

15:06:05

00038321999TRLO0

XLON


 724

 0.3950

15:08:40

00038322140TRLO0

XLON


 1,400

 0.3950

15:08:40

00038322139TRLO0

XLON


 7,422

 0.4000

15:13:31

00038322516TRLO0

XLON


 8,188

 0.4020

15:16:01

00038322800TRLO0

XLON


 266

 0.4020

15:33:01

00038323814TRLO0

XLON


 2,800

 0.4020

15:33:01

00038323813TRLO0

XLON


 4,200

 0.4020

15:33:01

00038323812TRLO0

XLON


 981

 0.4022

15:52:21

00038325052TRLO0

XLON


 1,935

 0.4022

15:55:37

00038325278TRLO0

XLON


 982

 0.4022

15:58:21

00038325384TRLO0

XLON


 1,948

 0.4022

15:59:57

00038325465TRLO0

XLON


 992

 0.4026

16:09:11

00038325881TRLO0

XLON


 981

 0.4026

16:14:11

00038326110TRLO0

XLON


 1,988

 0.4026

16:14:37

00038326139TRLO0

XLON


 1,744

 0.4028

16:18:21

00038326508TRLO0

XLON


 984

 0.4028

16:19:21

00038326551TRLO0

XLON


 876

 0.4034

16:29:25

00038327354TRLO0

XLON


 3,651

 0.4034

16:29:25

00038327353TRLO0

XLON


 31

 0.4034

16:29:25

00038327349TRLO0

XLON


 49

 0.4034

16:29:41

00038327409TRLO0

XLON


 7,756

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327885TRLO0

XLON


 742

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327884TRLO0

XLON


 4,949

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327883TRLO0

XLON


 476

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327882TRLO0

XLON


 2,122

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327881TRLO0

XLON


 1,048

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327880TRLO0

XLON


 4,835

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327879TRLO0

XLON


 595

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327878TRLO0

XLON


 3,965

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327877TRLO0

XLON


 1,000

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327876TRLO0

XLON


 12,700

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327875TRLO0

XLON


 1,644

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327874TRLO0

XLON


 3,904

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327873TRLO0

XLON


 2,860

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327872TRLO0

XLON


 1,337

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327871TRLO0

XLON


 416

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327870TRLO0

XLON


 81

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327869TRLO0

XLON


 647

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327868TRLO0

XLON


 437

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327867TRLO0

XLON


 18,432

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327866TRLO0

XLON


 1,669

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327865TRLO0

XLON


 3,882

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327864TRLO0

XLON


 5,135

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327863TRLO0

XLON


 7,206

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327862TRLO0

XLON


 11,578

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327861TRLO0

XLON


 2,697

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327860TRLO0

XLON


 5,942

 0.4016

16:35:23

00038327859TRLO0

XLON


 

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

 

Enquiries:

S4Capital

Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003

Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)


Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital)

Tel: +44 (0) 7970 246 725

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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