Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1777P

Serco Group PLC

16 February 2021

 

16 February 2021

Serco Group plc  

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300PT2CIHYN5GWJ21

Transactions in own shares

Serco Group plc (the 'Company') announces the purchase of 189,889 ordinary shares of 2 pence each (the 'Ordinary Shares') through J.P. Morgan Securities plc on 15 February 2021.

The Company intends to hold all of the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Since the announcement of the share buy-back programme on 31 December 2020 (the 'Programme'), the Company has purchased a total of 13,846,177 Ordinary Shares.

Following the transactions referred to in this announcement, the Company holds 13,846,177 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 1,219,534,460 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). The total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights will be 1,219,534,460 which 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.

The table below contains detailed information about the purchases referred to above.

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:	Serco Group plc (ISIN: GB0007973794)
Date of purchases:	15 February 2021
Investment firm:	J.P. Morgan Securities plc

Aggregate information:

Venue	Aggregated number of ordinary shares purchased	Volume-weighted average price per share	Lowest price per share	Highest price per share
London Stock Exchange	148,382	119.8665	119.5000	120.0000
CHI-X Europe	967	119.9261	119.9000	120.0000
Turquoise	2,144	119.9151	119.8000	120.0000
BATS Europe	22,544	119.8787	119.8000	120.0000
AQUIS EXCHANGE	15,852	119.8724	119.7000	120.0000

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For further information please contact:

Paul Checketts, Head of Investor Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail]  

Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail]  

About Serco

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector.  We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at www.serco.com .

 

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