Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6751N
WH Smith PLC
27 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:                                            27 October 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   29,550 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1493.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1479.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1488.6920 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,949,902 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:          27 October 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1489.9315

1,970

Chi-X Europe

1488.6674

5,030

Turquoise

1487.2692

3,184

London Stock Exchange

1488.8063

19,366

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

41

14.90

08:10:10

London Stock Exchange

21

14.90

08:10:10

London Stock Exchange

329

14.90

08:10:10

London Stock Exchange

332

14.83

08:29:00

Chi-X Europe

359

14.85

08:35:24

Turquoise

283

14.92

09:10:58

Turquoise

21

14.92

09:10:58

London Stock Exchange

250

14.92

09:10:58

London Stock Exchange

17

14.92

09:10:58

London Stock Exchange

8

14.91

09:11:53

London Stock Exchange

248

14.91

09:12:23

London Stock Exchange

23

14.90

09:35:34

London Stock Exchange

289

14.90

09:35:34

London Stock Exchange

204

14.90

09:35:34

London Stock Exchange

26

14.82

09:48:14

London Stock Exchange

262

14.82

09:48:14

London Stock Exchange

151

14.82

09:48:14

London Stock Exchange

156

14.79

10:06:50

London Stock Exchange

125

14.79

10:06:50

London Stock Exchange

36

14.79

10:06:50

London Stock Exchange

100

14.79

10:06:50

London Stock Exchange

243

14.83

10:51:47

Turquoise

91

14.82

10:51:47

Turquoise

85

14.82

10:53:01

Turquoise

243

14.85

11:06:21

Turquoise

375

14.84

11:06:22

Turquoise

32

14.83

11:22:51

Turquoise

141

14.83

11:23:02

London Stock Exchange

291

14.83

11:23:02

London Stock Exchange

220

14.82

11:44:21

London Stock Exchange

125

14.82

11:44:21

London Stock Exchange

122

14.82

11:44:21

London Stock Exchange

167

14.83

12:17:15

London Stock Exchange

76

14.83

12:17:15

London Stock Exchange

527

14.81

12:17:42

London Stock Exchange

200

14.85

12:53:11

London Stock Exchange

43

14.85

12:53:11

London Stock Exchange

120

14.86

12:59:19

London Stock Exchange

123

14.86

12:59:32

London Stock Exchange

37

14.86

13:09:46

London Stock Exchange

701

14.87

13:23:02

London Stock Exchange

280

14.87

13:23:02

London Stock Exchange

206

14.86

13:27:16

London Stock Exchange

57

14.86

13:27:16

London Stock Exchange

91

14.88

13:40:16

London Stock Exchange

156

14.88

13:40:16

London Stock Exchange

184

14.89

13:44:01

London Stock Exchange

108

14.89

13:44:01

London Stock Exchange

198

14.89

13:44:01

London Stock Exchange

375

14.92

13:50:03

Turquoise

110

14.92

13:50:03

London Stock Exchange

403

14.92

13:50:03

London Stock Exchange

461

14.92

13:50:36

London Stock Exchange

111

14.92

13:51:17

London Stock Exchange

327

14.93

14:03:53

London Stock Exchange

243

14.93

14:04:07

London Stock Exchange

264

14.92

14:07:56

London Stock Exchange

263

14.91

14:08:04

London Stock Exchange

336

14.91

14:18:11

London Stock Exchange

168

14.91

14:18:11

London Stock Exchange

243

14.91

14:22:02

London Stock Exchange

281

14.90

14:23:49

London Stock Exchange

243

14.90

14:23:49

London Stock Exchange

263

14.89

14:27:07

London Stock Exchange

243

14.90

14:30:23

London Stock Exchange

262

14.89

14:31:11

London Stock Exchange

263

14.89

14:31:11

Chi-X Europe

55

14.89

14:31:11

Chi-X Europe

397

14.90

14:32:11

London Stock Exchange

130

14.88

14:32:14

Chi-X Europe

84

14.88

14:32:16

Chi-X Europe

60

14.88

14:32:16

Chi-X Europe

265

14.88

14:35:14

Chi-X Europe

7

14.87

14:37:01

Chi-X Europe

243

14.88

14:37:31

Chi-X Europe

352

14.88

14:37:31

Chi-X Europe

27

14.88

14:46:54

London Stock Exchange

237

14.88

14:46:54

London Stock Exchange

156

14.88

14:46:54

London Stock Exchange

32

14.88

14:46:54

BATS Europe

90

14.88

14:46:54

BATS Europe

32

14.88

14:46:54

Chi-X Europe

18

14.87

14:46:58

Turquoise

225

14.87

14:46:58

Turquoise

521

14.87

14:46:58

Chi-X Europe

413

14.87

14:46:58

London Stock Exchange

243

14.89

15:03:35

London Stock Exchange

384

14.89

15:03:35

Chi-X Europe

431

14.89

15:03:35

Turquoise

26

14.89

15:03:38

London Stock Exchange

106

14.90

15:03:38

BATS Europe

111

14.90

15:03:38

BATS Europe

90

14.88

15:04:49

BATS Europe

106

14.88

15:04:49

BATS Europe

90

14.88

15:04:49

BATS Europe

224

14.89

15:17:01

BATS Europe

231

14.89

15:17:01

Turquoise

51

14.89

15:17:03

Turquoise

19

14.89

15:17:03

BATS Europe

318

14.89

15:17:03

London Stock Exchange

243

14.89

15:17:03

Chi-X Europe

247

14.89

15:17:03

Chi-X Europe

22

14.89

15:17:03

Chi-X Europe

2

14.90

15:17:06

Turquoise

3

14.91

15:17:06

London Stock Exchange

90

14.91

15:17:16

London Stock Exchange

187

14.91

15:17:16

London Stock Exchange

270

14.87

15:21:21

London Stock Exchange

183

14.90

15:30:41

London Stock Exchange

69

14.92

15:30:44

BATS Europe

65

14.92

15:33:00

London Stock Exchange

91

14.92

15:33:00

London Stock Exchange

87

14.92

15:33:00

London Stock Exchange

48

14.92

15:34:32

London Stock Exchange

104

14.92

15:34:32

London Stock Exchange

103

14.92

15:34:32

London Stock Exchange

18

14.92

15:34:32

London Stock Exchange

314

14.91

15:35:08

Chi-X Europe

23

14.91

15:35:08

London Stock Exchange

333

14.91

15:35:08

London Stock Exchange

29

14.91

15:35:08

London Stock Exchange

136

14.90

15:39:17

London Stock Exchange

107

14.90

15:39:17

London Stock Exchange

325

14.90

15:39:17

London Stock Exchange

263

14.90

15:42:32

London Stock Exchange

265

14.89

15:43:18

London Stock Exchange

243

14.91

15:55:20

London Stock Exchange

240

14.91

15:55:21

Chi-X Europe

91

14.91

15:55:21

Chi-X Europe

90

14.92

15:56:40

BATS Europe

112

14.92

15:56:40

London Stock Exchange

28

14.92

15:56:40

London Stock Exchange

13

14.92

15:56:40

London Stock Exchange

495

14.92

15:58:03

London Stock Exchange

251

14.92

15:59:14

Chi-X Europe

253

14.92

15:59:14

London Stock Exchange

77

14.89

16:01:05

London Stock Exchange

185

14.89

16:01:05

London Stock Exchange

38

14.89

16:06:00

London Stock Exchange

304

14.88

16:07:05

Chi-X Europe

297

14.88

16:08:00

London Stock Exchange

18

14.88

16:08:00

London Stock Exchange

90

14.89

16:11:27

BATS Europe

86

14.89

16:11:27

London Stock Exchange

131

14.89

16:11:27

London Stock Exchange

182

14.90

16:15:38

London Stock Exchange

125

14.90

16:15:38

London Stock Exchange

141

14.90

16:15:43

London Stock Exchange

34

14.90

16:15:43

London Stock Exchange

55

14.90

16:15:43

London Stock Exchange

116

14.90

16:15:43

Turquoise

9

14.91

16:16:51

London Stock Exchange

46

14.91

16:16:51

London Stock Exchange

82

14.91

16:16:51

London Stock Exchange

90

14.91

16:16:51

BATS Europe

114

14.91

16:16:51

London Stock Exchange

261

14.90

16:18:16

London Stock Exchange

103

14.90

16:18:30

London Stock Exchange

99

14.90

16:18:30

London Stock Exchange

99

14.90

16:18:30

London Stock Exchange

6

14.90

16:18:30

London Stock Exchange

67

14.90

16:18:42

BATS Europe

90

14.90

16:18:42

BATS Europe

31

14.90

16:18:42

London Stock Exchange

86

14.90

16:18:42

London Stock Exchange

179

14.91

16:25:34

Chi-X Europe

33

14.91

16:25:34

Chi-X Europe

24

14.91

16:25:34

Turquoise

30

14.91

16:25:34

London Stock Exchange

41

14.91

16:25:34

London Stock Exchange

90

14.91

16:25:38

BATS Europe

121

14.91

16:25:38

London Stock Exchange

119

14.91

16:25:38

London Stock Exchange

12

14.91

16:25:38

London Stock Exchange

59

14.91

16:25:38

London Stock Exchange

69

14.91

16:26:07

BATS Europe

90

14.91

16:26:07

BATS Europe

73

14.91

16:26:07

London Stock Exchange

11

14.91

16:26:07

London Stock Exchange

27

14.91

16:27:23

BATS Europe

27

14.91

16:27:23

BATS Europe

54

14.91

16:27:23

BATS Europe

90

14.91

16:27:23

BATS Europe

109

14.91

16:27:23

London Stock Exchange

77

14.91

16:28:45

London Stock Exchange

17

14.91

16:28:45

London Stock Exchange

69

14.91

16:28:45

BATS Europe

90

14.91

16:28:45

BATS Europe

378

14.90

16:28:59

Chi-X Europe

 


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