Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4290O

WH Smith PLC

04 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:                                            04 November 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   16,180 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1510.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1474.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1482.0239 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,840,801 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:          04 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1476.7444	931
Chi-X Europe	1485.7534	1,776
Turquoise	1484.4194	2,723
London Stock Exchange	1481.2581	10,750

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
26	15.10	08:03:04	London Stock Exchange
368	15.02	08:06:32	Turquoise
327	14.90	08:22:38	Chi-X Europe
600	14.85	08:47:02	London Stock Exchange
426	14.93	08:58:26	London Stock Exchange
412	14.88	09:16:10	London Stock Exchange
2	14.87	09:41:23	London Stock Exchange
478	14.87	09:41:23	London Stock Exchange
241	14.84	09:44:17	London Stock Exchange
414	14.86	09:57:59	Chi-X Europe
417	14.87	10:12:21	Chi-X Europe
385	14.85	10:36:55	London Stock Exchange
458	14.86	10:49:29	Turquoise
454	14.85	11:21:52	Turquoise
391	14.84	11:29:38	London Stock Exchange
40	14.81	11:53:01	London Stock Exchange
385	14.81	11:53:01	London Stock Exchange
135	14.83	12:33:59	London Stock Exchange
497	14.83	12:34:03	London Stock Exchange
279	14.81	12:39:04	London Stock Exchange
398	14.84	13:00:00	London Stock Exchange
403	14.83	13:24:45	Turquoise
55	14.83	13:49:49	London Stock Exchange
218	14.83	13:49:49	London Stock Exchange
38	14.83	13:49:49	Chi-X Europe
227	14.83	13:49:49	Chi-X Europe
222	14.79	14:11:50	London Stock Exchange
371	14.79	14:11:50	London Stock Exchange
463	14.75	14:27:00	Turquoise
76	14.80	14:47:45	Chi-X Europe
127	14.80	14:47:45	Chi-X Europe
6	14.80	14:47:45	BATS Europe
99	14.80	14:47:45	Turquoise
224	14.80	14:47:45	London Stock Exchange
100	14.80	14:47:45	BATS Europe
10	14.83	14:51:21	Turquoise
14	14.85	14:51:21	London Stock Exchange
150	14.85	14:51:21	Chi-X Europe
175	14.85	14:51:21	Turquoise
35	14.85	14:51:23	London Stock Exchange
201	14.82	15:01:16	London Stock Exchange
216	14.82	15:01:16	London Stock Exchange
58	14.77	15:08:15	London Stock Exchange
342	14.77	15:08:44	London Stock Exchange
283	14.77	15:24:20	London Stock Exchange
108	14.77	15:24:20	BATS Europe
151	14.77	15:25:13	London Stock Exchange
90	14.77	15:25:13	BATS Europe
241	14.77	15:28:07	London Stock Exchange
215	14.76	15:35:28	London Stock Exchange
193	14.76	15:35:28	London Stock Exchange
485	14.78	15:47:47	London Stock Exchange
400	14.77	15:51:21	London Stock Exchange
31	14.77	15:51:21	London Stock Exchange
420	14.78	16:00:19	London Stock Exchange
105	14.78	16:07:28	London Stock Exchange
335	14.78	16:07:30	London Stock Exchange
15	14.79	16:08:15	BATS Europe
26	14.79	16:08:17	London Stock Exchange
252	14.79	16:09:58	London Stock Exchange
3	14.79	16:09:58	London Stock Exchange
276	14.77	16:13:47	London Stock Exchange
268	14.78	16:17:21	London Stock Exchange
74	14.78	16:19:12	BATS Europe
90	14.78	16:19:12	BATS Europe
82	14.78	16:19:12	BATS Europe
42	14.77	16:21:13	Turquoise
251	14.77	16:21:13	Turquoise
288	14.76	16:24:21	London Stock Exchange
203	14.75	16:28:01	BATS Europe
63	14.75	16:28:01	BATS Europe
127	14.74	16:29:50	London Stock Exchange
100	14.74	16:29:50	BATS Europe

 

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