Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5428W

WH Smith PLC

09 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:                                            09 February 2017

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1661.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1637.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1645.3699 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 111,749,942 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:          09 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1647.7126	254
Chi-X Europe	1648.1687	2,893
Turquoise	1653.0000	304
London Stock Exchange	1644.7045	16,549

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
29	16.61	08:00:12	BATS Europe
56	16.51	08:08:11	Chi-X Europe
84	16.50	08:08:12	Chi-X Europe
156	16.50	08:08:12	Chi-X Europe
152	16.51	08:08:12	Chi-X Europe
31	16.54	08:18:17	Chi-X Europe
303	16.54	08:18:17	Chi-X Europe
76	16.54	08:18:17	Chi-X Europe
88	16.51	08:28:40	London Stock Exchange
170	16.51	08:28:40	London Stock Exchange
8	16.51	08:28:40	London Stock Exchange
93	16.43	08:47:50	London Stock Exchange
262	16.43	08:47:50	London Stock Exchange
320	16.43	08:47:50	London Stock Exchange
100	16.42	09:11:11	London Stock Exchange
100	16.42	09:11:11	London Stock Exchange
178	16.42	09:11:11	London Stock Exchange
85	16.42	09:11:11	London Stock Exchange
3	16.42	09:24:57	London Stock Exchange
106	16.42	09:32:47	London Stock Exchange
26	16.42	09:32:47	London Stock Exchange
73	16.42	09:32:47	London Stock Exchange
334	16.42	09:32:47	London Stock Exchange
596	16.40	09:53:30	London Stock Exchange
206	16.37	09:57:55	Chi-X Europe
2	16.37	09:57:55	London Stock Exchange
619	16.39	10:18:22	London Stock Exchange
208	16.41	10:41:10	London Stock Exchange
72	16.40	10:42:18	London Stock Exchange
364	16.40	10:42:18	London Stock Exchange
35	16.40	10:42:18	London Stock Exchange
52	16.42	10:52:43	Chi-X Europe
214	16.42	10:52:43	Chi-X Europe
200	16.42	11:00:00	London Stock Exchange
699	16.49	11:29:51	London Stock Exchange
385	16.47	11:46:46	London Stock Exchange
292	16.46	11:58:22	London Stock Exchange
45	16.46	11:58:22	BATS Europe
163	16.46	11:58:22	BATS Europe
229	16.46	12:29:05	London Stock Exchange
103	16.47	12:29:05	London Stock Exchange
105	16.47	12:29:05	London Stock Exchange
240	16.46	12:29:05	Chi-X Europe
26	16.46	12:29:05	Chi-X Europe
208	16.46	13:02:00	London Stock Exchange
499	16.46	13:02:00	London Stock Exchange
237	16.46	13:02:00	London Stock Exchange
375	16.45	13:07:14	London Stock Exchange
208	16.46	13:35:42	London Stock Exchange
922	16.45	13:37:59	London Stock Exchange
402	16.45	13:51:56	London Stock Exchange
170	16.49	14:16:17	London Stock Exchange
38	16.49	14:16:17	London Stock Exchange
166	16.49	14:20:16	London Stock Exchange
42	16.49	14:20:16	London Stock Exchange
50	16.49	14:32:58	London Stock Exchange
158	16.49	14:32:58	London Stock Exchange
130	16.49	14:34:57	London Stock Exchange
83	16.49	14:34:57	London Stock Exchange
51	16.49	14:34:57	London Stock Exchange
367	16.49	14:36:14	Chi-X Europe
157	16.49	14:36:14	Chi-X Europe
473	16.49	14:36:14	London Stock Exchange
158	16.51	14:47:47	Chi-X Europe
284	16.51	14:47:47	London Stock Exchange
98	16.51	14:47:47	Chi-X Europe
304	16.53	14:59:05	Turquoise
346	16.53	14:59:05	London Stock Exchange
267	16.53	15:03:03	London Stock Exchange
208	16.50	15:15:25	London Stock Exchange
169	16.50	15:15:25	Chi-X Europe
96	16.50	15:15:25	Chi-X Europe
208	16.49	15:19:35	London Stock Exchange
426	16.48	15:24:01	London Stock Exchange
268	16.46	15:30:56	London Stock Exchange
77	16.46	15:36:55	London Stock Exchange
212	16.46	15:36:55	London Stock Exchange
252	16.46	15:36:55	Chi-X Europe
34	16.43	15:44:06	London Stock Exchange
231	16.43	15:44:06	London Stock Exchange
208	16.43	15:44:06	London Stock Exchange
255	16.43	15:48:18	London Stock Exchange
13	16.43	15:48:28	London Stock Exchange
268	16.41	15:54:29	London Stock Exchange
302	16.41	15:58:35	London Stock Exchange
166	16.40	16:04:28	London Stock Exchange
11	16.40	16:04:46	London Stock Exchange
89	16.40	16:04:46	London Stock Exchange
59	16.40	16:06:53	London Stock Exchange
149	16.40	16:07:46	London Stock Exchange
191	16.38	16:11:53	London Stock Exchange
11	16.38	16:11:53	London Stock Exchange
261	16.38	16:13:10	London Stock Exchange
297	16.40	16:16:42	London Stock Exchange
208	16.40	16:16:42	London Stock Exchange
267	16.40	16:19:11	London Stock Exchange
458	16.45	16:29:25	London Stock Exchange
244	16.45	16:29:25	London Stock Exchange
61	16.45	16:29:25	London Stock Exchange
209	16.45	16:29:25	London Stock Exchange
17	16.46	16:29:27	BATS Europe
191	16.46	16:29:27	London Stock Exchange
3	16.46	16:29:27	London Stock Exchange

 

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