Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC

07 March 2024

 

7 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 6 March 2024 it purchased 255,947 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:	6 March 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	255,947
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3820
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3876
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3832

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 5,539,653 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 577,951,791. 

The above figure of 577,951,791 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
5,269	0.3826	08:23:57	00038358766TRLO0	XLON
1,973	0.3826	08:23:57	00038358765TRLO0	XLON
1,409	0.3824	09:30:39	00038360942TRLO0	XLON
203	0.3824	10:05:04	00038362231TRLO0	XLON
1,411	0.3824	10:05:59	00038362258TRLO0	XLON
7,928	0.3824	10:05:59	00038362257TRLO0	XLON
2,545	0.3824	10:05:59	00038362256TRLO0	XLON
4,133	0.3824	10:05:59	00038362255TRLO0	XLON
5,683	0.3856	10:18:25	00038362733TRLO0	XLON
1,867	0.3856	10:18:25	00038362732TRLO0	XLON
13,637	0.3856	10:18:25	00038362731TRLO0	XLON
9,431	0.3820	10:41:04	00038363286TRLO0	XLON
12	0.3820	10:41:09	00038363289TRLO0	XLON
4,843	0.3820	10:41:11	00038363291TRLO0	XLON
2,991	0.3820	10:41:11	00038363290TRLO0	XLON
75	0.3840	12:24:47	00038367050TRLO0	XLON
15	0.3840	12:24:49	00038367051TRLO0	XLON
71	0.3866	12:38:56	00038367344TRLO0	XLON
100	0.3866	12:45:29	00038367620TRLO0	XLON
131	0.3866	12:52:00	00038367847TRLO0	XLON
356	0.3866	12:59:36	00038368042TRLO0	XLON
217	0.3866	13:04:58	00038368408TRLO0	XLON
272	0.3866	13:17:09	00038368942TRLO0	XLON
316	0.3866	13:28:52	00038369425TRLO0	XLON
3,736	0.3874	13:45:03	00038370254TRLO0	XLON
3,032	0.3874	13:46:02	00038370267TRLO0	XLON
368	0.3874	13:49:26	00038370357TRLO0	XLON
452	0.3874	14:04:17	00038370843TRLO0	XLON
3,323	0.3874	14:06:57	00038370947TRLO0	XLON
3,673	0.3874	14:06:57	00038370946TRLO0	XLON
266	0.3876	14:13:51	00038371225TRLO0	XLON
389	0.3876	14:26:12	00038371832TRLO0	XLON
1,360	0.3876	14:47:36	00038373482TRLO0	XLON
10,633	0.3876	14:48:29	00038373525TRLO0	XLON
622	0.3824	15:16:06	00038375484TRLO0	XLON
4,863	0.3824	15:27:49	00038376192TRLO0	XLON
1,466	0.3824	16:26:52	00038380494TRLO0	XLON
47	0.3824	16:28:18	00038380611TRLO0	XLON
747	0.3824	16:28:18	00038380610TRLO0	XLON
300	0.3824	16:29:56	00038380771TRLO0	XLON
489	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381062TRLO0	XLON
200	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381061TRLO0	XLON
1,332	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381060TRLO0	XLON
4,308	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381059TRLO0	XLON
9,095	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381058TRLO0	XLON
4,747	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381057TRLO0	XLON
616	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381056TRLO0	XLON
574	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381055TRLO0	XLON
796	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381054TRLO0	XLON
5,308	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381053TRLO0	XLON
4,495	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381052TRLO0	XLON
7,681	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381051TRLO0	XLON
567	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381050TRLO0	XLON
2,738	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381049TRLO0	XLON
17,007	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381048TRLO0	XLON
4,925	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381047TRLO0	XLON
8,831	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381046TRLO0	XLON
8,662	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381045TRLO0	XLON
1,436	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381044TRLO0	XLON
2,851	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381043TRLO0	XLON
12	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381042TRLO0	XLON
2,653	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381041TRLO0	XLON
9,129	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381040TRLO0	XLON
17,333	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381039TRLO0	XLON
6,371	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381038TRLO0	XLON
4,889	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381037TRLO0	XLON
28,737	0.3824	16:35:18	00038381036TRLO0	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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