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: [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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