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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