Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9260N
WH Smith PLC
31 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:                                            31 October 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   16,165 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1498.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1473.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1482.6857 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,904,602 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:          31 October 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1478.7995

793

Chi-X Europe

1482.7952

1,006

Turquoise

1481.6823

2,795

London Stock Exchange

1483.1849

11,571

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

40

14.98

08:02:08

London Stock Exchange

389

14.97

08:07:21

London Stock Exchange

256

14.88

08:22:33

Turquoise

21

14.90

08:36:48

London Stock Exchange

274

14.90

08:36:48

London Stock Exchange

120

14.90

08:36:48

London Stock Exchange

21

14.88

08:57:12

London Stock Exchange

289

14.88

08:57:12

London Stock Exchange

122

14.88

08:57:12

London Stock Exchange

398

14.88

09:09:58

London Stock Exchange

280

14.81

09:27:06

London Stock Exchange

160

14.81

09:28:49

London Stock Exchange

79

14.83

09:48:15

London Stock Exchange

452

14.83

09:48:15

London Stock Exchange

272

14.86

10:07:26

Chi-X Europe

352

14.86

10:07:26

London Stock Exchange

37

14.84

10:26:57

London Stock Exchange

362

14.84

10:26:57

London Stock Exchange

444

14.85

10:48:08

London Stock Exchange

16

14.85

11:00:02

London Stock Exchange

384

14.85

11:00:02

London Stock Exchange

380

14.83

11:24:30

London Stock Exchange

51

14.83

11:24:30

London Stock Exchange

299

14.83

12:02:30

London Stock Exchange

267

14.81

12:17:17

London Stock Exchange

288

14.81

12:17:17

Chi-X Europe

248

14.83

12:17:46

London Stock Exchange

386

14.82

12:41:08

London Stock Exchange

295

14.86

13:14:50

London Stock Exchange

315

14.86

13:14:50

Turquoise

277

14.83

13:39:24

Turquoise

345

14.83

13:39:26

Turquoise

3

14.85

14:00:03

Turquoise

388

14.84

14:08:27

Turquoise

252

14.84

14:08:27

London Stock Exchange

399

14.84

14:32:08

London Stock Exchange

229

14.85

14:32:44

London Stock Exchange

159

14.85

14:32:44

BATS Europe

176

14.84

14:33:10

London Stock Exchange

94

14.84

14:33:10

London Stock Exchange

248

14.82

14:34:14

London Stock Exchange

412

14.82

14:54:22

London Stock Exchange

45

14.82

14:54:22

London Stock Exchange

231

14.81

15:03:01

London Stock Exchange

183

14.81

15:03:01

London Stock Exchange

76

14.80

15:19:05

London Stock Exchange

222

14.80

15:19:05

BATS Europe

90

14.80

15:19:05

BATS Europe

231

14.81

15:22:50

Turquoise

17

14.81

15:22:50

London Stock Exchange

415

14.81

15:26:34

London Stock Exchange

79

14.82

15:32:03

Chi-X Europe

250

14.82

15:32:03

Chi-X Europe

117

14.82

15:32:03

Chi-X Europe

428

14.82

15:41:22

London Stock Exchange

192

14.82

15:49:55

London Stock Exchange

242

14.82

15:49:55

London Stock Exchange

429

14.81

15:55:28

London Stock Exchange

403

14.80

16:07:53

Turquoise

37

14.79

16:08:09

BATS Europe

295

14.78

16:10:48

London Stock Exchange

281

14.76

16:12:36

Turquoise

278

14.76

16:15:43

London Stock Exchange

279

14.76

16:17:35

London Stock Exchange

144

14.74

16:21:42

BATS Europe

141

14.74

16:21:42

BATS Europe

296

14.74

16:22:16

Turquoise

188

14.73

16:26:30

London Stock Exchange

94

14.73

16:26:30

London Stock Exchange

203

14.73

16:35:13

London Stock Exchange

 


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