Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5500N

WH Smith PLC

26 October 2016

 

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 initially announced on 24 August 2016:

Date of purchase:                                            25 October 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   15,750 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1535.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1513.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1522.2785 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,943,625 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:          25 October 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1518.3649	1,036
Chi-X Europe	1521.9977	1,305
Turquoise	1528.0762	2,309
London Stock Exchange	1521.4707	11,100

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
24	15.31	08:02:20	London Stock Exchange
68	15.27	08:09:08	Turquoise
37	15.31	08:29:09	Turquoise
67	15.31	08:29:09	Turquoise
272	15.31	08:31:22	Turquoise
104	15.32	08:37:54	Turquoise
130	15.32	08:39:16	Turquoise
472	15.33	08:48:30	London Stock Exchange
334	15.31	08:51:09	London Stock Exchange
191	15.31	09:07:09	London Stock Exchange
201	15.31	09:07:09	London Stock Exchange
90	15.33	09:46:04	BATS Europe
251	15.33	09:46:04	London Stock Exchange
45	15.33	09:46:04	London Stock Exchange
366	15.32	09:46:49	London Stock Exchange
1	15.32	09:46:49	London Stock Exchange
312	15.32	09:46:49	Chi-X Europe
397	15.33	10:08:22	Turquoise
117	15.35	10:51:37	London Stock Exchange
234	15.35	10:53:29	London Stock Exchange
117	15.35	10:53:29	London Stock Exchange
152	15.35	10:53:29	London Stock Exchange
118	15.34	10:59:46	London Stock Exchange
221	15.34	10:59:46	London Stock Exchange
397	15.34	10:59:46	Turquoise
36	15.26	11:52:57	Turquoise
250	15.26	11:52:57	London Stock Exchange
100	15.26	11:52:57	London Stock Exchange
379	15.23	12:05:48	Turquoise
92	15.23	12:07:30	Chi-X Europe
100	15.23	12:07:30	London Stock Exchange
40	15.23	12:07:30	London Stock Exchange
2	15.23	12:07:30	London Stock Exchange
232	15.24	12:24:49	London Stock Exchange
175	15.24	12:29:25	London Stock Exchange
13	15.23	12:42:37	London Stock Exchange
281	15.23	12:43:34	London Stock Exchange
314	15.21	13:00:00	London Stock Exchange
369	15.21	13:14:12	Chi-X Europe
66	15.21	13:14:12	Chi-X Europe
426	15.18	13:35:56	London Stock Exchange
405	15.18	13:45:07	London Stock Exchange
143	15.17	14:03:47	London Stock Exchange
285	15.17	14:03:47	London Stock Exchange
449	15.14	14:19:23	London Stock Exchange
90	15.15	14:37:33	BATS Europe
70	15.15	14:37:33	BATS Europe
70	15.15	14:37:33	BATS Europe
4	15.15	14:37:33	BATS Europe
24	15.14	14:38:43	London Stock Exchange
257	15.14	14:38:43	London Stock Exchange
276	15.14	14:44:22	London Stock Exchange
79	15.14	14:44:22	London Stock Exchange
131	15.18	15:02:36	London Stock Exchange
131	15.18	15:02:36	London Stock Exchange
97	15.18	15:02:36	London Stock Exchange
131	15.18	15:02:36	London Stock Exchange
131	15.18	15:02:36	London Stock Exchange
339	15.19	15:08:17	London Stock Exchange
126	15.20	15:23:02	Chi-X Europe
76	15.20	15:23:02	Chi-X Europe
57	15.20	15:23:02	London Stock Exchange
127	15.20	15:23:02	London Stock Exchange
358	15.17	15:25:44	London Stock Exchange
234	15.17	15:28:41	London Stock Exchange
264	15.18	15:39:01	BATS Europe
358	15.18	15:40:07	BATS Europe
421	15.18	15:48:18	Turquoise
1	15.18	15:48:18	Turquoise
418	15.17	15:54:29	London Stock Exchange
398	15.16	16:04:26	London Stock Exchange
441	15.15	16:09:01	London Stock Exchange
234	15.15	16:20:43	London Stock Exchange
169	15.15	16:20:43	London Stock Exchange
66	15.15	16:20:43	London Stock Exchange
139	15.15	16:20:43	London Stock Exchange
29	15.15	16:20:43	London Stock Exchange
33	15.14	16:22:10	London Stock Exchange
48	15.13	16:23:06	Chi-X Europe
216	15.13	16:23:06	Chi-X Europe
90	15.15	16:27:17	BATS Europe
16	15.15	16:27:17	London Stock Exchange
175	15.15	16:27:17	London Stock Exchange
259	15.13	16:28:07	London Stock Exchange
234	15.14	16:29:00	London Stock Exchange
58	15.15	16:29:50	London Stock Exchange

 

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