Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7527K

Sage Group PLC

06 September 2021

 

THE SAGE GROUP PLC.

Transactions in own shares

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage" or the "Group") announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 1 ⁴ / ₇ pence each (the "Shares") on the London Stock Exchange and Multilateral Trading Facilities from J.P. Morgan Securities plc. This is pursuant to the share buyback programme announced on 4 March 2021.

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	3 September 2021
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	314,181
Highest price paid per share:	745.0000 p
Lowest price paid per share:	735.8000 p
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	742.2365 p

These Shares will be held in treasury and used to meet obligations arising from share option programmes, or other allocations of shares, to employees or directors.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a schedule of individual trades by J.P. Morgan Securities plc is available using the following link:

https://www.sage.com/en-gb/-/media/files/sagedotcom/master/documents/pdf/Transaction_In_Own_Shares_03_09_21.pdf

Sage confirms that the £300 million share buyback programme announced on 4 March 2021 has now been completed.

A total number of 45,418,600 ordinary shares in Sage were repurchased as part of the share buyback programme and are held in treasury. The aggregate amount of the consideration paid by Sage was £299,999,986.76 and the average price paid per ordinary share was £6.6052.

 

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