Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0494O

WH Smith PLC

01 November 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:                                            01 November 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   16,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1505.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1476.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1497.6806 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,888,602 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:          01 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1503.9069	741
Chi-X Europe	1501.6064	2,124
Turquoise	1496.3451	765
London Stock Exchange	1496.7161	12,370

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
33	14.88	08:00:31	London Stock Exchange
65	14.88	08:11:05	Turquoise
200	14.88	08:11:19	Turquoise
94	14.88	08:11:19	Turquoise
300	14.86	08:20:48	London Stock Exchange
61	14.87	08:29:28	London Stock Exchange
293	14.87	08:29:28	London Stock Exchange
1	14.80	08:43:41	London Stock Exchange
421	14.80	08:43:41	London Stock Exchange
448	14.76	08:59:19	London Stock Exchange
393	14.76	09:17:40	London Stock Exchange
415	14.79	09:33:28	London Stock Exchange
171	14.94	09:56:47	London Stock Exchange
303	14.94	09:56:47	London Stock Exchange
138	14.94	09:56:47	London Stock Exchange
56	15.02	10:27:13	Turquoise
178	15.02	10:27:13	London Stock Exchange
55	15.02	10:27:13	Chi-X Europe
100	15.02	10:27:13	Chi-X Europe
11	15.02	10:27:13	Chi-X Europe
244	15.02	10:34:55	London Stock Exchange
180	15.02	10:41:30	London Stock Exchange
99	15.02	10:41:30	London Stock Exchange
458	15.03	10:59:32	London Stock Exchange
250	15.03	11:33:03	London Stock Exchange
90	15.03	11:33:03	BATS Europe
250	15.03	11:33:03	London Stock Exchange
11	15.03	11:33:06	London Stock Exchange
256	15.02	11:59:25	Chi-X Europe
283	15.02	11:59:25	London Stock Exchange
323	15.02	11:59:25	London Stock Exchange
129	15.04	12:51:37	London Stock Exchange
97	15.04	12:51:37	London Stock Exchange
56	15.04	12:51:37	Chi-X Europe
100	15.05	13:02:02	BATS Europe
90	15.05	13:02:02	BATS Europe
90	15.05	13:02:02	BATS Europe
1	15.05	13:02:02	BATS Europe
175	15.04	13:18:31	Turquoise
30	15.04	13:18:31	London Stock Exchange
175	15.04	13:18:31	Turquoise
20	15.04	13:18:31	London Stock Exchange
24	15.04	13:25:05	London Stock Exchange
190	15.04	13:25:05	London Stock Exchange
64	15.04	13:25:05	London Stock Exchange
322	15.04	13:31:11	London Stock Exchange
126	15.02	13:50:03	London Stock Exchange
339	15.02	13:50:03	London Stock Exchange
260	15.01	14:12:50	Chi-X Europe
353	15.01	14:12:50	London Stock Exchange
375	15.00	14:24:31	Chi-X Europe
4	15.00	14:24:31	Chi-X Europe
213	14.99	14:33:36	London Stock Exchange
238	14.99	14:33:36	London Stock Exchange
104	14.99	14:45:32	London Stock Exchange
243	14.99	14:45:32	London Stock Exchange
84	14.99	14:45:32	London Stock Exchange
293	15.02	15:02:24	London Stock Exchange
107	15.02	15:02:24	London Stock Exchange
90	15.03	15:04:18	BATS Europe
51	15.03	15:04:18	London Stock Exchange
103	15.03	15:04:18	London Stock Exchange
260	15.05	15:11:43	London Stock Exchange
100	15.05	15:11:43	BATS Europe
90	15.05	15:11:43	BATS Europe
100	15.03	15:16:54	London Stock Exchange
100	15.03	15:16:54	London Stock Exchange
73	15.03	15:16:54	London Stock Exchange
185	15.03	15:16:54	London Stock Exchange
530	15.03	15:30:05	London Stock Exchange
44	15.04	15:39:56	Chi-X Europe
265	15.03	15:39:57	Chi-X Europe
275	15.02	15:46:15	Chi-X Europe
283	15.02	15:52:02	Chi-X Europe
8	14.99	15:55:31	London Stock Exchange
164	14.99	15:55:31	London Stock Exchange
117	14.99	15:55:31	London Stock Exchange
271	14.98	15:58:33	London Stock Exchange
25	14.98	16:07:01	London Stock Exchange
229	14.98	16:07:01	London Stock Exchange
17	14.98	16:07:01	London Stock Exchange
1	14.97	16:09:00	Chi-X Europe
250	14.97	16:09:00	London Stock Exchange
279	14.98	16:13:20	London Stock Exchange
139	15.00	16:17:10	Chi-X Europe
63	15.00	16:17:10	London Stock Exchange
90	15.00	16:17:10	BATS Europe
276	15.01	16:18:57	London Stock Exchange
115	14.98	16:21:48	London Stock Exchange
159	14.98	16:21:48	London Stock Exchange
292	14.98	16:25:18	London Stock Exchange
7	14.97	16:27:55	London Stock Exchange
264	14.97	16:27:55	London Stock Exchange
203	14.95	16:29:56	London Stock Exchange

 

END

 

 

POSGMMGMRMVGVZM