Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4874T
WH Smith PLC
05 January 2017
 

 

WH Smith PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

 

WH Smith PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 27 January 2016, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme announced on 5 December 2016:

 

Date of purchase:                                            5 January 2017

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   27,900 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1591.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1541.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1580.9825 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,087,795 Shares in issue. This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

The schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Barclays on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

WH Smith PLC

Mark Boyle

Investor Relations

020 7406 6320

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Purchases

 

Shares purchased:           WH Smith PLC (ISIN CODE: GB00B2PDGW16)

Date of purchases:          5 January 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1588.0000

337

Chi-X Europe

1577.9352

2,947

Turquoise

1582.1365

1,363

London Stock Exchange

1581.1993

23,253

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

8

15.41

08:08:47

London Stock Exchange

46

15.41

08:08:47

London Stock Exchange

30

15.49

08:23:49

London Stock Exchange

532

15.49

08:23:49

London Stock Exchange

121

15.49

08:23:52

London Stock Exchange

93

15.51

08:32:01

London Stock Exchange

37

15.51

08:32:31

London Stock Exchange

186

15.51

08:32:31

London Stock Exchange

148

15.60

09:01:57

London Stock Exchange

128

15.63

09:05:39

London Stock Exchange

561

15.64

09:14:04

London Stock Exchange

157

15.64

09:14:04

Chi-X Europe

82

15.64

09:14:04

Chi-X Europe

157

15.63

09:15:17

London Stock Exchange

4

15.63

09:16:57

Chi-X Europe

10

15.63

09:16:57

Chi-X Europe

196

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

34

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

274

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

112

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

54

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

38

15.63

09:16:57

London Stock Exchange

270

15.68

09:48:48

London Stock Exchange

239

15.68

09:48:48

London Stock Exchange

163

15.69

10:00:17

London Stock Exchange

165

15.69

10:03:37

London Stock Exchange

25

15.69

10:03:39

London Stock Exchange

12

15.72

10:10:01

Chi-X Europe

239

15.72

10:18:49

Chi-X Europe

431

15.72

10:18:49

Chi-X Europe

2

15.78

10:54:39

Chi-X Europe

51

15.78

10:54:39

London Stock Exchange

8

15.78

10:54:39

London Stock Exchange

53

15.78

10:54:39

London Stock Exchange

270

15.78

10:54:39

Turquoise

177

15.78

10:54:39

Chi-X Europe

73

15.77

11:02:55

London Stock Exchange

302

15.77

11:02:55

London Stock Exchange

239

15.77

11:02:55

Chi-X Europe

277

15.77

11:02:55

Turquoise

272

15.77

11:02:55

Chi-X Europe

74

15.75

11:36:57

Chi-X Europe

194

15.75

11:36:57

Chi-X Europe

267

15.75

11:46:57

London Stock Exchange

543

15.83

12:05:17

London Stock Exchange

130

15.84

12:16:57

London Stock Exchange

137

15.84

12:17:56

London Stock Exchange

166

15.83

12:26:50

London Stock Exchange

170

15.83

12:26:57

London Stock Exchange

168

15.82

12:31:57

London Stock Exchange

98

15.82

12:33:37

London Stock Exchange

187

15.86

12:44:28

London Stock Exchange

51

15.86

12:44:28

London Stock Exchange

80

15.86

12:47:54

London Stock Exchange

142

15.86

13:00:17

London Stock Exchange

100

15.86

13:00:28

London Stock Exchange

306

15.86

13:03:54

London Stock Exchange

77

15.86

13:03:54

Turquoise

38

15.86

13:14:00

London Stock Exchange

200

15.86

13:15:32

London Stock Exchange

100

15.86

13:16:39

London Stock Exchange

32

15.86

13:18:18

London Stock Exchange

126

15.86

13:21:00

Turquoise

419

15.91

13:25:13

London Stock Exchange

176

15.87

13:33:37

London Stock Exchange

91

15.87

13:35:17

London Stock Exchange

85

15.85

13:48:50

Turquoise

85

15.85

13:49:06

Turquoise

85

15.85

13:49:22

Turquoise

85

15.85

13:49:38

Turquoise

16

15.85

13:49:54

Turquoise

83

15.85

13:50:07

Turquoise

85

15.85

13:50:23

Turquoise

85

15.85

13:50:39

Turquoise

4

15.85

13:50:47

Turquoise

418

15.85

13:57:14

London Stock Exchange

266

15.85

14:07:25

London Stock Exchange

169

15.88

14:18:37

London Stock Exchange

474

15.88

14:23:37

London Stock Exchange

267

15.89

14:27:58

London Stock Exchange

267

15.88

14:33:37

London Stock Exchange

266

15.82

14:38:57

London Stock Exchange

256

15.87

14:51:37

London Stock Exchange

213

15.87

14:51:37

London Stock Exchange

113

15.87

14:56:13

London Stock Exchange

117

15.87

14:56:13

London Stock Exchange

37

15.87

14:56:57

London Stock Exchange

267

15.87

15:00:19

London Stock Exchange

467

15.87

15:09:33

London Stock Exchange

23

15.86

15:14:22

London Stock Exchange

342

15.85

15:16:08

London Stock Exchange

167

15.88

15:22:13

London Stock Exchange

170

15.88

15:22:13

London Stock Exchange

337

15.88

15:28:47

BATS Europe

360

15.87

15:29:09

Chi-X Europe

343

15.87

15:33:35

London Stock Exchange

85

15.87

15:41:56

London Stock Exchange

212

15.87

15:41:57

London Stock Exchange

21

15.87

15:42:04

London Stock Exchange

20

15.87

15:42:55

London Stock Exchange

337

15.87

15:42:55

London Stock Exchange

128

15.87

15:44:55

Chi-X Europe

209

15.87

15:44:55

Chi-X Europe

173

15.87

15:50:17

London Stock Exchange

16

15.90

15:52:00

London Stock Exchange

254

15.90

15:52:00

London Stock Exchange

305

15.86

15:53:46

London Stock Exchange

258

15.87

15:54:42

London Stock Exchange

341

15.86

15:57:08

London Stock Exchange

262

15.88

16:03:05

London Stock Exchange

197

15.89

16:03:09

London Stock Exchange

179

15.86

16:05:17

London Stock Exchange

136

15.86

16:06:03

London Stock Exchange

17

15.86

16:06:25

London Stock Exchange

225

15.86

16:07:06

London Stock Exchange

81

15.86

16:07:09

London Stock Exchange

346

15.86

16:11:57

London Stock Exchange

357

15.85

16:17:28

Chi-X Europe

337

15.85

16:17:28

London Stock Exchange

228

15.83

16:19:35

London Stock Exchange

44

15.83

16:19:35

London Stock Exchange

62

15.85

16:23:47

London Stock Exchange

200

15.86

16:27:45

London Stock Exchange

137

15.86

16:28:16

London Stock Exchange

82

15.86

16:28:24

London Stock Exchange

309

15.86

16:28:33

London Stock Exchange

363

15.86

16:28:50

London Stock Exchange

43

15.86

16:28:52

London Stock Exchange

431

15.86

16:28:52

London Stock Exchange

305

15.86

16:28:52

London Stock Exchange

1659

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

65

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

69

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

174

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

68

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

56

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

1

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

2418

15.83

16:35:06

London Stock Exchange

 


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