Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8045V

WH Smith PLC

01 February 2017

 

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 25 January 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme announced on 25 January 2017:

Date of purchase:                                            01 February 2017

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1645.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1625.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1639.1432 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 111,868,894 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 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1640.7143	315
Chi-X Europe	1638.4313	1,266
Turquoise	1637.9446	813
London Stock Exchange	1639.2216	17,606

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
38	16.41	08:01:01	Chi-X Europe
221	16.38	08:02:59	Chi-X Europe
189	16.33	08:07:33	Chi-X Europe
2	16.33	08:07:33	Chi-X Europe
84	16.31	08:13:47	London Stock Exchange
166	16.31	08:13:47	London Stock Exchange
150	16.30	08:20:17	London Stock Exchange
65	16.30	08:20:17	London Stock Exchange
187	16.28	08:23:17	London Stock Exchange
252	16.32	08:32:59	London Stock Exchange
15	16.32	08:32:59	London Stock Exchange
266	16.25	08:43:57	London Stock Exchange
816	16.34	09:11:03	London Stock Exchange
80	16.32	09:29:51	Turquoise
116	16.32	09:39:48	London Stock Exchange
168	16.32	09:39:48	Turquoise
213	16.32	09:39:48	London Stock Exchange
187	16.32	09:39:48	London Stock Exchange
419	16.39	10:00:53	London Stock Exchange
245	16.39	10:00:53	Chi-X Europe
187	16.40	10:32:43	London Stock Exchange
673	16.39	10:34:39	London Stock Exchange
29	16.39	10:34:39	London Stock Exchange
607	16.42	11:11:35	London Stock Exchange
933	16.41	11:11:45	London Stock Exchange
267	16.41	11:39:52	London Stock Exchange
181	16.40	11:51:35	London Stock Exchange
342	16.42	11:57:40	London Stock Exchange
143	16.42	12:07:43	London Stock Exchange
141	16.42	12:07:43	London Stock Exchange
637	16.43	12:33:19	London Stock Exchange
21	16.40	12:41:13	London Stock Exchange
39	16.40	12:42:03	London Stock Exchange
232	16.40	12:42:28	London Stock Exchange
393	16.41	12:56:07	London Stock Exchange
228	16.40	13:07:33	London Stock Exchange
200	16.40	13:07:33	London Stock Exchange
304	16.40	13:28:45	Chi-X Europe
292	16.40	13:28:45	London Stock Exchange
489	16.40	13:38:20	London Stock Exchange
267	16.40	13:54:45	Chi-X Europe
198	16.40	13:54:45	London Stock Exchange
99	16.39	13:55:58	London Stock Exchange
88	16.39	13:55:58	London Stock Exchange
267	16.38	14:02:12	London Stock Exchange
267	16.37	14:10:01	London Stock Exchange
147	16.38	14:30:55	London Stock Exchange
40	16.38	14:30:55	London Stock Exchange
58	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
300	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
100	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
64	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
100	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
197	16.38	14:36:55	London Stock Exchange
474	16.38	14:47:05	London Stock Exchange
187	16.40	14:48:23	London Stock Exchange
187	16.39	14:56:08	London Stock Exchange
266	16.39	14:56:08	London Stock Exchange
186	16.38	15:00:01	London Stock Exchange
80	16.38	15:00:01	London Stock Exchange
100	16.39	15:18:18	London Stock Exchange
87	16.39	15:18:18	London Stock Exchange
458	16.39	15:24:00	London Stock Exchange
221	16.39	15:24:00	London Stock Exchange
248	16.39	15:24:00	Turquoise
175	16.43	15:35:34	Turquoise
12	16.43	15:35:34	Turquoise
581	16.43	15:35:34	London Stock Exchange
167	16.40	15:46:10	London Stock Exchange
145	16.40	15:48:08	London Stock Exchange
143	16.40	15:50:05	London Stock Exchange
164	16.44	15:58:32	London Stock Exchange
37	16.44	15:58:32	London Stock Exchange
613	16.44	16:01:15	London Stock Exchange
12	16.45	16:07:53	London Stock Exchange
5	16.45	16:07:53	London Stock Exchange
170	16.45	16:07:53	London Stock Exchange
56	16.45	16:09:44	London Stock Exchange
23	16.45	16:09:44	London Stock Exchange
97	16.45	16:09:44	London Stock Exchange
11	16.45	16:09:44	London Stock Exchange
11	16.45	16:11:27	London Stock Exchange
165	16.45	16:11:27	London Stock Exchange
11	16.45	16:11:27	London Stock Exchange
460	16.45	16:12:07	London Stock Exchange
187	16.43	16:13:14	London Stock Exchange
267	16.40	16:15:05	London Stock Exchange
201	16.38	16:18:02	London Stock Exchange
66	16.38	16:18:02	London Stock Exchange
265	16.38	16:20:46	London Stock Exchange
318	16.39	16:23:05	London Stock Exchange
85	16.40	16:27:34	Turquoise
45	16.40	16:27:34	Turquoise
90	16.40	16:27:34	BATS Europe
38	16.41	16:27:34	BATS Europe
174	16.41	16:29:35	BATS Europe
13	16.41	16:29:35	BATS Europe
290	16.41	16:29:38	London Stock Exchange

 

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