Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1453P
WH Smith PLC
14 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:                                            14 November 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   35,000 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1516.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1488.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1497.1245 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,665,444 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:          14 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1491.4132

484

Chi-X Europe

1496.4943

6,122

Turquoise

1492.8533

4,116

London Stock Exchange

1498.1214

24,278

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

24

15.12

08:06:02

London Stock Exchange

214

15.12

08:07:30

London Stock Exchange

93

15.12

08:10:34

London Stock Exchange

302

15.12

08:10:34

London Stock Exchange

309

15.05

08:16:26

London Stock Exchange

214

15.15

08:28:28

London Stock Exchange

278

15.15

08:28:28

London Stock Exchange

216

15.16

08:30:32

London Stock Exchange

27

15.15

08:30:36

London Stock Exchange

403

15.11

08:40:01

London Stock Exchange

214

15.11

08:49:13

London Stock Exchange

151

15.11

08:49:13

London Stock Exchange

159

15.11

08:49:13

London Stock Exchange

66

15.16

09:05:53

London Stock Exchange

148

15.16

09:05:53

London Stock Exchange

831

15.14

09:07:42

London Stock Exchange

380

15.10

09:15:57

London Stock Exchange

31

15.10

09:15:57

London Stock Exchange

319

15.09

09:30:27

Chi-X Europe

62

15.09

09:36:45

Chi-X Europe

214

15.09

09:36:45

Chi-X Europe

301

15.09

09:36:45

London Stock Exchange

218

15.09

09:36:45

London Stock Exchange

214

15.07

09:41:32

London Stock Exchange

190

15.04

09:43:06

London Stock Exchange

24

15.04

09:43:06

London Stock Exchange

400

15.05

09:52:43

London Stock Exchange

399

15.03

10:00:30

London Stock Exchange

567

15.05

10:17:08

London Stock Exchange

14

15.04

10:17:30

Chi-X Europe

200

15.04

10:17:30

London Stock Exchange

131

15.07

10:37:26

London Stock Exchange

83

15.07

10:37:26

London Stock Exchange

182

15.09

10:52:03

London Stock Exchange

32

15.09

10:52:03

London Stock Exchange

422

15.08

10:55:18

Chi-X Europe

533

15.08

10:55:18

London Stock Exchange

214

15.05

11:01:59

London Stock Exchange

214

15.02

11:14:56

Chi-X Europe

400

15.02

11:14:56

Chi-X Europe

400

14.95

11:25:54

London Stock Exchange

214

14.93

11:29:50

Chi-X Europe

214

14.90

11:35:47

London Stock Exchange

91

14.95

12:07:18

London Stock Exchange

242

14.96

12:07:18

London Stock Exchange

577

14.96

12:07:18

London Stock Exchange

179

14.95

12:10:46

London Stock Exchange

35

14.95

12:10:46

London Stock Exchange

361

14.96

12:34:45

Chi-X Europe

16

14.96

12:34:45

Chi-X Europe

175

14.96

12:34:45

Turquoise

26

14.96

12:34:45

London Stock Exchange

263

14.96

12:34:45

London Stock Exchange

93

14.96

12:34:45

London Stock Exchange

214

14.95

12:39:59

Turquoise

214

14.93

12:44:38

Turquoise

214

14.94

12:59:48

Turquoise

262

14.93

13:09:39

London Stock Exchange

96

14.93

13:09:39

Chi-X Europe

250

14.93

13:09:39

Chi-X Europe

83

14.93

13:09:39

Chi-X Europe

214

14.90

13:11:13

Turquoise

400

14.92

13:18:44

Chi-X Europe

367

14.93

13:33:41

Turquoise

129

14.93

13:33:41

London Stock Exchange

298

14.93

13:33:41

London Stock Exchange

400

14.92

13:40:33

Turquoise

49

14.93

13:59:49

Turquoise

165

14.93

13:59:49

Turquoise

24

14.93

14:02:54

London Stock Exchange

190

14.93

14:02:54

London Stock Exchange

214

14.93

14:08:16

London Stock Exchange

239

14.94

14:14:19

Chi-X Europe

3

14.94

14:14:19

London Stock Exchange

584

14.94

14:14:19

London Stock Exchange

234

14.94

14:14:19

London Stock Exchange

5

14.93

14:17:05

London Stock Exchange

209

14.93

14:17:05

London Stock Exchange

385

14.93

14:25:18

London Stock Exchange

18

14.93

14:25:18

London Stock Exchange

126

14.94

14:32:09

London Stock Exchange

155

14.94

14:32:09

London Stock Exchange

44

14.94

14:32:09

London Stock Exchange

65

14.93

14:36:21

London Stock Exchange

149

14.93

14:36:21

London Stock Exchange

411

14.93

14:40:08

London Stock Exchange

214

14.93

14:40:08

London Stock Exchange

397

14.96

14:56:05

London Stock Exchange

243

14.96

14:56:05

Chi-X Europe

45

14.96

14:56:05

Turquoise

250

14.96

14:56:05

Turquoise

32

14.96

14:56:05

Turquoise

148

14.96

14:56:05

London Stock Exchange

214

14.96

14:58:11

London Stock Exchange

398

14.95

15:03:13

Chi-X Europe

214

14.92

15:04:48

Turquoise

214

14.92

15:13:00

Chi-X Europe

237

14.91

15:13:34

Chi-X Europe

45

14.91

15:13:34

Chi-X Europe

173

14.91

15:13:43

Chi-X Europe

203

14.91

15:18:57

London Stock Exchange

196

14.91

15:18:57

London Stock Exchange

214

14.90

15:23:58

London Stock Exchange

214

14.90

15:23:58

Chi-X Europe

214

14.88

15:26:05

London Stock Exchange

214

14.89

15:29:31

London Stock Exchange

153

14.90

15:32:19

London Stock Exchange

248

14.90

15:32:19

London Stock Exchange

398

14.90

15:39:23

London Stock Exchange

418

14.90

15:43:00

London Stock Exchange

223

14.93

15:56:09

Chi-X Europe

134

14.93

15:58:12

London Stock Exchange

100

14.93

15:58:12

BATS Europe

125

14.95

16:01:12

Turquoise

59

14.95

16:01:12

Turquoise

141

14.95

16:01:12

Chi-X Europe

283

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

87

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

122

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

14

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

100

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

11

14.95

16:01:12

London Stock Exchange

237

14.94

16:04:34

Chi-X Europe

298

14.94

16:04:34

Turquoise

253

14.94

16:04:34

London Stock Exchange

258

14.94

16:04:34

London Stock Exchange

263

14.94

16:06:11

London Stock Exchange

13

14.94

16:06:11

London Stock Exchange

425

14.94

16:06:11

London Stock Exchange

138

14.93

16:14:32

London Stock Exchange

264

14.93

16:14:32

London Stock Exchange

398

14.92

16:20:39

London Stock Exchange

221

14.92

16:20:39

London Stock Exchange

252

14.92

16:20:39

London Stock Exchange

186

14.92

16:20:39

London Stock Exchange

34

14.91

16:24:00

London Stock Exchange

200

14.91

16:24:10

London Stock Exchange

168

14.91

16:24:10

London Stock Exchange

250

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

150

14.91

16:27:18

Chi-X Europe

175

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

6

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

175

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

150

14.91

16:27:18

Chi-X Europe

185

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

125

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

250

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

180

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

140

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

60

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

179

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

145

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

3

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

150

14.91

16:27:18

Chi-X Europe

121

14.91

16:27:18

London Stock Exchange

93

14.91

16:27:18

Chi-X Europe

100

14.91

16:27:18

BATS Europe

90

14.91

16:27:18

BATS Europe

194

14.91

16:27:18

BATS Europe

175

14.91

16:27:18

Turquoise

150

14.91

16:27:18

Chi-X Europe

30

14.91

16:29:02

London Stock Exchange

189

14.91

16:29:11

London Stock Exchange

353

14.92

16:29:21

London Stock Exchange

292

14.92

16:29:21

London Stock Exchange

288

14.92

16:29:29

London Stock Exchange

75

14.92

16:29:29

London Stock Exchange

250

14.93

16:29:34

London Stock Exchange

451

14.93

16:29:34

London Stock Exchange

27

14.93

16:29:34

London Stock Exchange

807

14.93

16:29:34

London Stock Exchange

 


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