Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4712Q
WH Smith PLC
29 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 13 October 2016:

 

Date of purchase:                                            29 November 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   40,000 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1506.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1482.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1499.1843 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,279,222 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:          29 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1499.7503

1,738

Chi-X Europe

1496.0872

3,486

Turquoise

1496.4771

853

London Stock Exchange

1499.5416

33,923

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

23

14.96

08:00:10

BATS Europe

200

14.82

08:06:28

Chi-X Europe

3

14.82

08:06:28

Chi-X Europe

17

14.82

08:06:28

Chi-X Europe

262

14.91

08:19:14

Turquoise

451

14.91

08:19:14

Chi-X Europe

224

14.90

08:19:26

Chi-X Europe

486

14.94

08:35:42

Chi-X Europe

218

14.93

08:37:14

Chi-X Europe

21

14.93

08:37:14

Chi-X Europe

75

14.99

09:06:49

London Stock Exchange

195

14.99

09:06:49

London Stock Exchange

164

14.99

09:06:49

London Stock Exchange

374

14.98

09:11:11

London Stock Exchange

365

14.98

09:11:11

BATS Europe

262

14.98

09:11:11

London Stock Exchange

222

14.98

09:18:25

London Stock Exchange

164

14.98

09:18:25

London Stock Exchange

109

14.98

09:18:25

London Stock Exchange

169

14.99

09:26:31

London Stock Exchange

197

14.99

09:26:31

London Stock Exchange

63

14.99

09:26:31

London Stock Exchange

258

14.98

09:40:02

Chi-X Europe

301

14.98

09:40:02

London Stock Exchange

329

14.97

09:54:00

London Stock Exchange

13

14.97

09:54:00

London Stock Exchange

361

14.97

09:54:25

London Stock Exchange

37

14.94

10:02:01

London Stock Exchange

23

14.94

10:02:01

London Stock Exchange

19

14.94

10:02:01

London Stock Exchange

114

14.94

10:02:01

London Stock Exchange

232

14.94

10:02:01

London Stock Exchange

222

14.93

10:16:02

London Stock Exchange

425

14.93

10:16:02

London Stock Exchange

233

14.93

10:20:55

London Stock Exchange

222

14.92

10:24:12

London Stock Exchange

75

14.90

10:40:11

London Stock Exchange

276

14.90

10:40:11

London Stock Exchange

75

14.90

10:40:11

London Stock Exchange

390

14.92

10:45:54

London Stock Exchange

36

14.92

10:45:54

London Stock Exchange

176

14.92

11:01:30

London Stock Exchange

46

14.92

11:01:30

London Stock Exchange

88

14.92

11:07:02

London Stock Exchange

46

14.92

11:07:02

London Stock Exchange

88

14.92

11:07:02

London Stock Exchange

23

14.94

11:31:53

London Stock Exchange

199

14.94

11:31:53

London Stock Exchange

1289

14.93

11:41:13

London Stock Exchange

58

14.93

11:41:13

Turquoise

25

14.95

12:03:12

London Stock Exchange

86

14.95

12:03:12

London Stock Exchange

136

14.95

12:03:12

London Stock Exchange

4

14.95

12:03:12

London Stock Exchange

17

14.95

12:03:12

London Stock Exchange

4

14.95

12:03:15

London Stock Exchange

259

14.95

12:08:12

London Stock Exchange

500

14.95

12:08:12

London Stock Exchange

181

14.95

12:08:12

London Stock Exchange

70

14.95

12:08:12

London Stock Exchange

230

14.95

12:08:12

Turquoise

225

14.97

12:17:47

London Stock Exchange

202

14.97

12:17:47

London Stock Exchange

205

14.95

12:33:24

London Stock Exchange

222

14.95

12:33:24

London Stock Exchange

222

14.95

12:33:24

Chi-X Europe

161

14.94

12:41:23

London Stock Exchange

160

14.94

12:41:23

London Stock Exchange

105

14.94

12:41:23

London Stock Exchange

90

14.93

13:15:18

BATS Europe

90

14.93

13:15:18

BATS Europe

114

14.93

13:15:18

BATS Europe

383

14.93

13:19:36

London Stock Exchange

279

14.94

13:25:53

Chi-X Europe

23

14.94

13:25:53

London Stock Exchange

415

14.95

13:31:11

London Stock Exchange

16

14.95

13:31:11

London Stock Exchange

9

14.94

13:37:50

Chi-X Europe

233

14.95

13:37:57

London Stock Exchange

7

14.95

13:37:57

London Stock Exchange

749

14.94

13:44:52

London Stock Exchange

263

14.94

13:44:52

London Stock Exchange

268

14.95

13:48:40

London Stock Exchange

75

14.95

13:50:13

London Stock Exchange

72

14.95

13:50:13

London Stock Exchange

75

14.95

13:50:13

London Stock Exchange

215

14.95

13:50:52

London Stock Exchange

65

14.95

13:50:52

London Stock Exchange

136

14.95

13:50:52

London Stock Exchange

168

14.94

13:55:07

London Stock Exchange

54

14.94

13:55:07

London Stock Exchange

22

14.96

14:17:53

London Stock Exchange

100

14.96

14:17:53

BATS Europe

100

14.96

14:17:53

BATS Europe

274

14.95

14:20:50

London Stock Exchange

227

14.95

14:28:08

London Stock Exchange

357

14.95

14:28:08

London Stock Exchange

370

14.95

14:28:08

London Stock Exchange

754

14.95

14:28:08

London Stock Exchange

1

14.95

14:29:29

London Stock Exchange

141

14.99

14:42:57

London Stock Exchange

214

14.99

14:42:57

London Stock Exchange

267

14.99

14:42:57

London Stock Exchange

349

14.99

14:42:57

London Stock Exchange

359

14.99

14:42:57

London Stock Exchange

392

15.01

14:49:19

London Stock Exchange

34

15.01

14:49:19

London Stock Exchange

427

15.00

14:55:17

London Stock Exchange

397

15.00

14:59:59

London Stock Exchange

31

15.00

14:59:59

London Stock Exchange

222

15.00

15:00:36

London Stock Exchange

425

15.00

15:06:02

London Stock Exchange

297

15.04

15:20:24

Chi-X Europe

937

15.04

15:20:24

London Stock Exchange

108

15.05

15:23:32

Chi-X Europe

114

15.05

15:23:32

Chi-X Europe

427

15.05

15:29:03

London Stock Exchange

222

15.05

15:29:03

Chi-X Europe

657

15.03

15:36:17

London Stock Exchange

6

15.02

15:38:54

London Stock Exchange

216

15.02

15:38:54

London Stock Exchange

222

15.02

15:40:27

London Stock Exchange

222

15.01

15:42:06

London Stock Exchange

355

15.01

15:46:20

London Stock Exchange

72

15.01

15:47:01

London Stock Exchange

26

15.01

15:52:36

London Stock Exchange

65

15.02

15:59:00

London Stock Exchange

90

15.03

16:03:35

BATS Europe

132

15.03

16:03:35

BATS Europe

78

15.03

16:03:35

London Stock Exchange

46

15.03

16:03:35

London Stock Exchange

98

15.03

16:03:35

London Stock Exchange

7

15.03

16:03:35

BATS Europe

39

15.03

16:03:35

London Stock Exchange

133

15.03

16:03:35

London Stock Exchange

92

15.02

16:04:47

Chi-X Europe

155

15.02

16:04:47

Chi-X Europe

500

15.02

16:04:47

London Stock Exchange

150

15.02

16:04:47

London Stock Exchange

222

15.02

16:04:47

BATS Europe

222

15.03

16:07:02

London Stock Exchange

50

15.02

16:13:06

London Stock Exchange

74

15.03

16:14:08

London Stock Exchange

17

15.03

16:14:08

London Stock Exchange

250

15.03

16:14:08

London Stock Exchange

344

15.03

16:14:08

London Stock Exchange

303

15.03

16:14:08

Turquoise

47

15.02

16:15:54

London Stock Exchange

50

15.02

16:18:06

London Stock Exchange

18

15.02

16:18:07

London Stock Exchange

202

15.02

16:18:24

London Stock Exchange

208

15.02

16:18:24

London Stock Exchange

20

15.02

16:18:54

London Stock Exchange

9

15.02

16:18:54

London Stock Exchange

313

15.02

16:19:27

London Stock Exchange

284

15.02

16:21:09

London Stock Exchange

140

15.02

16:21:09

London Stock Exchange

315

15.05

16:27:44

BATS Europe

337

15.06

16:28:39

London Stock Exchange

3

15.06

16:28:39

London Stock Exchange

90

15.06

16:28:42

BATS Europe

222

15.06

16:28:42

London Stock Exchange

60

15.06

16:28:42

London Stock Exchange

60

15.06

16:28:42

London Stock Exchange

110

15.06

16:28:42

Chi-X Europe

190

15.06

16:29:38

London Stock Exchange

180

15.06

16:29:38

London Stock Exchange

7171

15.05

16:35:03

London Stock Exchange

36

15.05

16:35:03

London Stock Exchange

225

15.05

16:35:03

London Stock Exchange

9

15.05

16:35:03

London Stock Exchange

559

15.05

16:35:03

London Stock Exchange

 


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