Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 3865W

WH Smith PLC

08 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:                                            08 February 2017

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1660.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1632.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1648.9530 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 111,769,942 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:          08 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1637.0000	455
Chi-X Europe	1646.0104	3,561
Turquoise	1648.1505	691
London Stock Exchange	1650.0300	15,293

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
25	16.33	08:00:12	London Stock Exchange
272	16.37	08:11:23	BATS Europe
183	16.37	08:11:23	BATS Europe
34	16.32	08:15:04	Chi-X Europe
172	16.32	08:15:04	Chi-X Europe
283	16.38	08:23:07	Chi-X Europe
172	16.35	08:37:28	London Stock Exchange
94	16.35	08:37:28	London Stock Exchange
13	16.33	08:50:09	London Stock Exchange
409	16.33	08:50:09	London Stock Exchange
205	16.37	09:35:15	London Stock Exchange
1	16.36	09:35:15	Turquoise
31	16.42	09:40:30	London Stock Exchange
177	16.42	09:40:30	London Stock Exchange
191	16.40	09:42:54	London Stock Exchange
287	16.40	09:42:54	London Stock Exchange
108	16.40	09:42:54	London Stock Exchange
245	16.40	09:42:54	Chi-X Europe
134	16.40	09:44:25	Turquoise
46	16.40	09:44:25	London Stock Exchange
26	16.40	09:44:25	London Stock Exchange
390	16.41	09:53:39	London Stock Exchange
267	16.47	10:04:46	London Stock Exchange
266	16.47	10:17:29	London Stock Exchange
29	16.45	10:20:57	London Stock Exchange
213	16.46	10:42:50	Chi-X Europe
206	16.46	10:51:23	Chi-X Europe
223	16.45	10:55:11	Chi-X Europe
74	16.46	11:12:40	London Stock Exchange
132	16.46	11:12:40	London Stock Exchange
295	16.47	11:23:58	Chi-X Europe
81	16.47	11:23:58	London Stock Exchange
216	16.47	11:23:58	London Stock Exchange
2	16.46	11:40:39	London Stock Exchange
286	16.46	11:41:13	London Stock Exchange
208	16.46	11:41:13	Chi-X Europe
158	16.45	11:41:13	London Stock Exchange
444	16.46	11:41:13	Chi-X Europe
6	16.47	11:59:32	London Stock Exchange
8	16.47	12:02:48	Chi-X Europe
9	16.47	12:03:35	Chi-X Europe
197	16.47	12:03:36	Chi-X Europe
301	16.47	12:03:36	London Stock Exchange
309	16.51	12:23:06	London Stock Exchange
188	16.51	12:23:06	London Stock Exchange
115	16.54	12:48:09	London Stock Exchange
91	16.54	12:48:09	London Stock Exchange
9	16.53	12:51:19	Turquoise
193	16.56	13:02:46	Chi-X Europe
42	16.56	13:02:46	Chi-X Europe
21	16.56	13:02:46	London Stock Exchange
338	16.56	13:02:53	London Stock Exchange
206	16.55	13:06:35	London Stock Exchange
325	16.54	13:08:43	London Stock Exchange
206	16.55	13:20:52	London Stock Exchange
451	16.54	13:24:52	London Stock Exchange
266	16.53	13:34:51	London Stock Exchange
110	16.52	13:36:54	London Stock Exchange
96	16.52	13:36:54	London Stock Exchange
266	16.52	13:44:54	London Stock Exchange
222	16.57	14:09:01	London Stock Exchange
400	16.57	14:09:01	London Stock Exchange
331	16.57	14:09:01	London Stock Exchange
69	16.57	14:09:01	London Stock Exchange
525	16.57	14:09:01	London Stock Exchange
206	16.60	14:36:49	London Stock Exchange
386	16.60	14:36:49	London Stock Exchange
49	16.57	14:53:30	Chi-X Europe
130	16.57	14:55:41	Chi-X Europe
98	16.57	14:56:04	London Stock Exchange
292	16.58	15:00:12	London Stock Exchange
412	16.58	15:00:12	London Stock Exchange
93	16.57	15:01:52	London Stock Exchange
131	16.57	15:01:52	London Stock Exchange
266	16.55	15:04:00	London Stock Exchange
600	16.53	15:14:38	London Stock Exchange
130	16.52	15:26:33	Turquoise
421	16.53	15:31:49	London Stock Exchange
240	16.53	15:31:49	Chi-X Europe
176	16.51	15:32:30	London Stock Exchange
30	16.51	15:32:30	London Stock Exchange
209	16.49	15:39:42	London Stock Exchange
211	16.49	15:39:42	Turquoise
206	16.50	15:51:53	Turquoise
429	16.50	15:51:53	London Stock Exchange
522	16.48	16:00:13	London Stock Exchange
206	16.48	16:11:36	London Stock Exchange
541	16.48	16:11:36	London Stock Exchange
372	16.47	16:17:41	London Stock Exchange
5	16.47	16:17:41	London Stock Exchange
370	16.47	16:17:41	Chi-X Europe
344	16.48	16:28:56	London Stock Exchange
615	16.48	16:29:07	London Stock Exchange
206	16.48	16:29:07	London Stock Exchange
206	16.47	16:29:33	London Stock Exchange

 

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