Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5398O
WH Smith PLC
07 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:                                            07 November 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   32,400 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1496.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1477.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1481.3098 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,825,001 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:          07 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1487.5817

949

Chi-X Europe

1481.3127

3,144

Turquoise

1480.1246

3,235

London Stock Exchange

1481.2250

25,072

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

78

14.96

08:02:48

London Stock Exchange

294

14.79

08:13:05

London Stock Exchange

53

14.79

08:13:05

London Stock Exchange

350

14.82

08:22:01

London Stock Exchange

440

14.80

08:34:40

London Stock Exchange

58

14.83

09:01:05

London Stock Exchange

334

14.83

09:02:10

London Stock Exchange

294

14.83

09:02:10

London Stock Exchange

401

14.86

09:14:35

London Stock Exchange

30

14.88

09:28:12

London Stock Exchange

584

14.86

09:35:31

London Stock Exchange

399

14.81

09:41:20

London Stock Exchange

250

14.79

10:05:05

Turquoise

410

14.79

10:05:05

London Stock Exchange

333

14.79

10:05:05

London Stock Exchange

217

14.79

10:05:05

London Stock Exchange

30

14.79

10:05:05

London Stock Exchange

34

14.79

10:07:58

London Stock Exchange

60

14.79

10:07:58

London Stock Exchange

144

14.79

10:07:58

London Stock Exchange

238

14.81

10:24:52

London Stock Exchange

377

14.80

10:27:02

Turquoise

238

14.80

10:27:02

Chi-X Europe

262

14.80

10:27:02

London Stock Exchange

400

14.80

10:34:53

Chi-X Europe

398

14.79

10:46:48

London Stock Exchange

223

14.81

11:06:23

London Stock Exchange

286

14.80

11:15:00

Turquoise

286

14.80

11:15:00

London Stock Exchange

360

14.80

11:15:00

Turquoise

60

14.80

11:15:38

London Stock Exchange

178

14.80

11:15:38

London Stock Exchange

181

14.81

11:24:25

London Stock Exchange

217

14.81

11:24:25

London Stock Exchange

238

14.81

11:57:01

London Stock Exchange

143

14.82

12:05:07

Chi-X Europe

181

14.82

12:05:07

London Stock Exchange

1038

14.81

12:05:18

London Stock Exchange

20

14.81

12:05:18

Chi-X Europe

400

14.81

12:12:33

London Stock Exchange

358

14.79

12:36:58

London Stock Exchange

305

14.79

12:36:58

Chi-X Europe

65

14.79

12:36:58

Chi-X Europe

173

14.79

12:36:58

Chi-X Europe

194

14.79

12:53:03

London Stock Exchange

10

14.79

12:59:29

London Stock Exchange

228

14.79

12:59:29

London Stock Exchange

205

14.79

12:59:29

London Stock Exchange

240

14.79

12:59:29

London Stock Exchange

456

14.80

13:06:01

London Stock Exchange

399

14.82

13:13:11

Chi-X Europe

263

14.79

13:22:04

London Stock Exchange

138

14.79

13:22:04

London Stock Exchange

249

14.78

13:24:09

Chi-X Europe

402

14.79

13:31:59

Chi-X Europe

120

14.78

13:37:46

London Stock Exchange

206

14.78

13:40:00

London Stock Exchange

32

14.78

13:40:00

London Stock Exchange

281

14.78

13:40:00

London Stock Exchange

109

14.78

14:02:16

London Stock Exchange

201

14.78

14:02:29

London Stock Exchange

226

14.78

14:02:29

London Stock Exchange

206

14.78

14:03:18

London Stock Exchange

72

14.78

14:04:46

London Stock Exchange

238

14.78

14:06:18

London Stock Exchange

265

14.78

14:06:18

Turquoise

50

14.78

14:06:18

London Stock Exchange

238

14.78

14:06:18

London Stock Exchange

64

14.78

14:20:58

London Stock Exchange

748

14.78

14:20:58

London Stock Exchange

345

14.78

14:29:30

London Stock Exchange

236

14.78

14:30:38

London Stock Exchange

59

14.78

14:30:38

London Stock Exchange

39

14.78

14:30:38

London Stock Exchange

199

14.78

14:30:38

London Stock Exchange

97

14.78

14:45:01

London Stock Exchange

238

14.79

14:48:14

Turquoise

238

14.79

14:49:20

London Stock Exchange

300

14.77

14:52:07

London Stock Exchange

100

14.77

14:52:07

London Stock Exchange

483

14.78

14:52:07

Turquoise

381

14.78

14:52:07

London Stock Exchange

65

14.77

14:54:02

Turquoise

58

14.77

14:54:02

Turquoise

25

14.77

14:54:02

BATS Europe

7

14.77

14:54:02

Chi-X Europe

83

14.78

14:54:28

London Stock Exchange

604

14.79

15:03:23

London Stock Exchange

76

14.79

15:03:23

London Stock Exchange

56

14.79

15:03:23

London Stock Exchange

238

14.80

15:10:17

London Stock Exchange

69

14.80

15:10:17

London Stock Exchange

525

14.80

15:10:17

London Stock Exchange

507

14.80

15:18:27

London Stock Exchange

378

14.80

15:18:27

Turquoise

302

14.80

15:22:01

London Stock Exchange

155

14.80

15:22:01

London Stock Exchange

238

14.80

15:24:46

London Stock Exchange

238

14.79

15:25:13

London Stock Exchange

394

14.80

15:29:56

London Stock Exchange

96

14.80

15:29:56

London Stock Exchange

48

14.80

15:29:56

London Stock Exchange

228

14.84

15:33:17

London Stock Exchange

174

14.84

15:33:17

London Stock Exchange

238

14.84

15:44:16

London Stock Exchange

159

14.84

15:44:16

London Stock Exchange

238

14.84

15:44:16

Chi-X Europe

239

14.84

15:44:16

London Stock Exchange

238

14.83

15:47:16

London Stock Exchange

238

14.83

15:47:16

London Stock Exchange

238

14.84

15:54:32

London Stock Exchange

244

14.84

15:58:56

London Stock Exchange

29

14.84

16:02:55

London Stock Exchange

116

14.84

16:02:55

London Stock Exchange

116

14.84

16:02:55

London Stock Exchange

254

14.84

16:05:10

London Stock Exchange

30

14.84

16:05:10

London Stock Exchange

247

14.84

16:06:15

London Stock Exchange

258

14.83

16:07:32

London Stock Exchange

148

14.84

16:10:50

London Stock Exchange

90

14.84

16:10:50

BATS Europe

348

14.85

16:13:36

Turquoise

29

14.85

16:13:59

London Stock Exchange

392

14.85

16:15:30

London Stock Exchange

3

14.85

16:15:30

London Stock Exchange

32

14.85

16:15:30

London Stock Exchange

359

14.85

16:15:30

London Stock Exchange

238

14.85

16:15:30

London Stock Exchange

20

14.86

16:18:16

London Stock Exchange

266

14.86

16:18:16

London Stock Exchange

127

14.88

16:21:33

Turquoise

250

14.88

16:21:33

London Stock Exchange

225

14.89

16:21:48

BATS Europe

13

14.89

16:21:48

BATS Europe

265

14.88

16:22:20

London Stock Exchange

276

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

111

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

94

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

144

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

222

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

115

14.88

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

44

14.88

16:27:05

BATS Europe

254

14.88

16:27:05

BATS Europe

79

14.88

16:27:05

BATS Europe

113

14.88

16:28:28

London Stock Exchange

219

14.88

16:28:28

BATS Europe

249

14.87

16:29:00

Chi-X Europe

256

14.87

16:29:00

Chi-X Europe

 


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