Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2755W
WH Smith PLC
07 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:                                            07 February 2017

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1646.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1614.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1636.5108 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 111,789,942 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 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1639.4978

458

Chi-X Europe

1637.4828

1,597

Turquoise

1641.3653

698

London Stock Exchange

1636.1450

17,247

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

40

16.14

08:01:15

London Stock Exchange

89

16.20

08:07:30

London Stock Exchange

345

16.20

08:07:45

London Stock Exchange

205

16.22

08:18:39

London Stock Exchange

272

16.20

08:19:24

London Stock Exchange

500

16.27

08:36:36

London Stock Exchange

161

16.27

08:36:36

London Stock Exchange

289

16.31

09:07:02

London Stock Exchange

250

16.31

09:07:02

London Stock Exchange

42

16.31

09:07:02

London Stock Exchange

41

16.31

09:07:02

London Stock Exchange

129

16.32

09:18:48

London Stock Exchange

71

16.32

09:18:48

London Stock Exchange

5

16.32

09:18:48

BATS Europe

582

16.33

09:38:38

London Stock Exchange

205

16.33

09:38:38

London Stock Exchange

236

16.32

09:57:45

London Stock Exchange

7

16.35

10:17:38

London Stock Exchange

76

16.35

10:17:38

London Stock Exchange

122

16.35

10:17:38

London Stock Exchange

598

16.33

10:21:43

London Stock Exchange

205

16.30

10:25:27

London Stock Exchange

160

16.36

11:02:35

London Stock Exchange

45

16.36

11:02:35

London Stock Exchange

26

16.35

11:12:41

London Stock Exchange

557

16.35

11:12:41

London Stock Exchange

82

16.35

11:12:41

Chi-X Europe

124

16.35

11:12:41

Chi-X Europe

81

16.35

11:12:41

Chi-X Europe

267

16.35

11:23:27

London Stock Exchange

13

16.37

11:54:37

London Stock Exchange

103

16.38

12:02:53

London Stock Exchange

230

16.38

12:02:53

London Stock Exchange

103

16.38

12:02:53

London Stock Exchange

252

16.37

12:16:01

Chi-X Europe

74

16.38

12:18:02

London Stock Exchange

131

16.38

12:18:26

London Stock Exchange

12

16.38

12:22:46

London Stock Exchange

140

16.38

12:22:46

London Stock Exchange

53

16.38

12:22:46

London Stock Exchange

668

16.37

12:25:55

London Stock Exchange

303

16.35

12:38:59

Chi-X Europe

122

16.40

12:51:29

London Stock Exchange

93

16.40

12:51:32

London Stock Exchange

269

16.40

12:51:32

London Stock Exchange

422

16.38

13:15:42

London Stock Exchange

37

16.39

13:24:55

London Stock Exchange

74

16.39

13:26:17

London Stock Exchange

205

16.40

13:28:29

London Stock Exchange

94

16.39

13:29:55

London Stock Exchange

166

16.39

13:29:55

London Stock Exchange

39

16.39

13:29:55

London Stock Exchange

230

16.39

13:34:33

London Stock Exchange

56

16.39

13:34:33

London Stock Exchange

19

16.38

13:39:44

London Stock Exchange

18

16.38

13:40:25

London Stock Exchange

231

16.38

13:40:25

London Stock Exchange

44

16.42

14:12:00

London Stock Exchange

6

16.42

14:12:00

BATS Europe

185

16.42

14:12:00

BATS Europe

205

16.42

14:12:06

London Stock Exchange

205

16.45

14:21:52

London Stock Exchange

114

16.45

14:23:16

London Stock Exchange

6

16.45

14:23:16

Turquoise

85

16.45

14:25:17

London Stock Exchange

205

16.45

14:25:55

London Stock Exchange

205

16.41

14:33:15

London Stock Exchange

399

16.42

14:39:10

London Stock Exchange

277

16.42

14:39:10

London Stock Exchange

299

16.42

14:39:10

Chi-X Europe

105

16.44

14:42:03

London Stock Exchange

100

16.44

14:42:03

BATS Europe

329

16.42

14:46:34

London Stock Exchange

406

16.46

14:57:38

London Stock Exchange

34

16.46

14:59:11

London Stock Exchange

171

16.46

14:59:11

London Stock Exchange

169

16.45

15:03:44

London Stock Exchange

29

16.45

15:03:44

London Stock Exchange

156

16.46

15:07:10

Turquoise

49

16.46

15:07:10

Turquoise

280

16.45

15:11:35

London Stock Exchange

73

16.45

15:11:37

London Stock Exchange

266

16.43

15:16:41

Turquoise

255

16.40

15:23:39

London Stock Exchange

134

16.40

15:23:41

London Stock Exchange

367

16.38

15:28:27

Chi-X Europe

89

16.38

15:28:27

Chi-X Europe

87

16.35

15:36:35

London Stock Exchange

93

16.35

15:36:35

London Stock Exchange

187

16.35

15:36:35

London Stock Exchange

221

16.35

15:45:51

Turquoise

396

16.35

15:45:51

London Stock Exchange

266

16.38

15:51:46

London Stock Exchange

205

16.37

15:53:53

London Stock Exchange

217

16.37

15:58:33

London Stock Exchange

50

16.37

15:58:33

London Stock Exchange

188

16.36

16:01:11

London Stock Exchange

17

16.36

16:01:11

London Stock Exchange

407

16.35

16:06:10

London Stock Exchange

395

16.37

16:15:04

London Stock Exchange

100

16.37

16:15:04

London Stock Exchange

100

16.37

16:15:04

London Stock Exchange

5

16.37

16:15:04

London Stock Exchange

365

16.37

16:17:08

London Stock Exchange

266

16.37

16:20:29

London Stock Exchange

268

16.36

16:21:42

London Stock Exchange

120

16.33

16:26:39

London Stock Exchange

584

16.33

16:27:00

London Stock Exchange

85

16.33

16:27:09

London Stock Exchange

100

16.34

16:27:33

BATS Europe

62

16.34

16:27:33

BATS Europe

 


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