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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