Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1908O

WH Smith PLC

02 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:                                            02 November 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   16,130 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1499.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1477.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1486.1926 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,872,437 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:          02 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1483.9236	1,113
Chi-X Europe	1492.5501	1,416
Turquoise	1480.6540	1,234
London Stock Exchange	1486.2216	12,367

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
35	14.99	08:02:11	London Stock Exchange
226	14.99	08:26:14	Chi-X Europe
250	14.99	08:26:14	Chi-X Europe
7	14.99	08:26:14	Chi-X Europe
250	14.97	08:28:27	Chi-X Europe
252	14.98	08:38:12	London Stock Exchange
48	14.98	08:38:12	London Stock Exchange
102	14.98	08:38:12	London Stock Exchange
303	14.93	08:58:05	London Stock Exchange
211	14.93	08:58:05	London Stock Exchange
432	14.95	09:12:53	London Stock Exchange
30	14.96	09:27:06	London Stock Exchange
419	14.96	09:27:06	London Stock Exchange
59	14.96	09:52:47	London Stock Exchange
71	14.96	09:52:47	London Stock Exchange
90	14.96	09:52:47	BATS Europe
53	14.96	09:52:47	BATS Europe
223	14.96	09:52:47	Chi-X Europe
339	14.95	10:02:55	London Stock Exchange
83	14.95	10:02:55	London Stock Exchange
410	14.90	10:20:24	London Stock Exchange
81	14.90	10:44:24	London Stock Exchange
369	14.90	10:44:24	London Stock Exchange
399	14.88	10:59:34	London Stock Exchange
443	14.88	11:22:44	London Stock Exchange
11	14.86	11:34:29	London Stock Exchange
372	14.86	11:34:29	London Stock Exchange
407	14.82	11:54:31	Chi-X Europe
5	14.82	11:54:31	Chi-X Europe
401	14.82	12:16:43	London Stock Exchange
72	14.83	12:53:22	London Stock Exchange
82	14.83	12:53:22	London Stock Exchange
96	14.83	12:53:22	London Stock Exchange
439	14.83	12:55:10	London Stock Exchange
250	14.87	13:33:53	London Stock Exchange
649	14.89	13:39:15	London Stock Exchange
28	14.87	14:06:33	London Stock Exchange
250	14.87	14:06:33	London Stock Exchange
330	14.87	14:06:33	London Stock Exchange
574	14.87	14:26:47	London Stock Exchange
270	14.86	14:40:49	London Stock Exchange
289	14.86	14:40:49	Turquoise
90	14.85	14:58:20	BATS Europe
105	14.85	14:58:20	BATS Europe
84	14.85	14:58:20	BATS Europe
275	14.84	14:59:00	BATS Europe
284	14.84	14:59:00	London Stock Exchange
196	14.83	15:07:10	London Stock Exchange
227	14.83	15:07:10	London Stock Exchange
200	14.83	15:12:39	London Stock Exchange
443	14.83	15:19:36	London Stock Exchange
249	14.83	15:19:36	London Stock Exchange
392	14.79	15:31:48	London Stock Exchange
390	14.80	15:48:57	London Stock Exchange
250	14.79	15:51:52	Turquoise
427	14.79	15:51:52	Turquoise
250	14.79	15:51:52	Turquoise
440	14.77	16:02:51	London Stock Exchange
29	14.77	16:06:55	London Stock Exchange
171	14.79	16:16:15	London Stock Exchange
100	14.79	16:16:15	BATS Europe
223	14.79	16:16:19	London Stock Exchange
91	14.79	16:16:19	BATS Europe
48	14.79	16:16:19	Chi-X Europe
276	14.80	16:19:40	London Stock Exchange
141	14.79	16:20:07	London Stock Exchange
90	14.79	16:20:07	BATS Europe
35	14.79	16:20:07	BATS Europe
265	14.79	16:23:45	London Stock Exchange
100	14.79	16:26:30	BATS Europe
185	14.79	16:26:30	London Stock Exchange
182	14.80	16:29:05	London Stock Exchange
73	14.80	16:29:05	London Stock Exchange
85	14.80	16:29:05	London Stock Exchange
18	14.80	16:29:05	Turquoise
6	14.80	16:29:05	London Stock Exchange

 

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