Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7801H

WH Smith PLC

02 August 2019

 

Transactions 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 23 January 2019, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme announced on 16 May 2019:

Date of purchase:	2 August 2019
Number of Shares purchased:	10,000 Shares
Highest price paid per Share:	2110.0000 pence
Lowest price paid per Share:	2076.0000 pence
Average price paid per Share:	2082.1596 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares. 

The Company has 107,898,059 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 J.P. Morgan Cazenove on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:	WH Smith PLC (ISIN CODE: GB00B2PDGW16)
Date of purchases:	2 August 2019
Investment firm:	J.P. Morgan Securities plc

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, Pence	Aggregated volume
London Stock Exchange	2082.1596	10,000

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
172	2110.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:05:37	London Stock Exchange
2	2100.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:20:26	London Stock Exchange
162	2100.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:20:26	London Stock Exchange
162	2094.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:30:15	London Stock Exchange
193	2090.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:33:47	London Stock Exchange
242	2086.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:35:15	London Stock Exchange
208	2086.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:40:16	London Stock Exchange
162	2086.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:40:16	London Stock Exchange
172	2086.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:45:44	London Stock Exchange
111	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:56:03	London Stock Exchange
50	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:56:03	London Stock Exchange
28	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:56:32	London Stock Exchange
99	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:56:32	London Stock Exchange
162	2088.0000	02-Aug-2019 08:59:50	London Stock Exchange
200	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:04:52	London Stock Exchange
25	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:04:52	London Stock Exchange
193	2082.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:09:52	London Stock Exchange
177	2082.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:11:32	London Stock Exchange
150	2082.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:14:05	London Stock Exchange
12	2082.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:14:05	London Stock Exchange
171	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:17:53	London Stock Exchange
171	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:33:51	London Stock Exchange
233	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:41:05	London Stock Exchange
75	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:46:44	London Stock Exchange
119	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:46:44	London Stock Exchange
192	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:51:28	London Stock Exchange
2	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:51:28	London Stock Exchange
10	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:51:32	London Stock Exchange
27	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:51:32	London Stock Exchange
127	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:51:32	London Stock Exchange
174	2076.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:54:43	London Stock Exchange
177	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 09:59:16	London Stock Exchange
176	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:02:33	London Stock Exchange
38	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:03:12	London Stock Exchange
29	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:03:12	London Stock Exchange
97	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:03:12	London Stock Exchange
177	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:04:52	London Stock Exchange
168	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:06:32	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
167	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
63	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
180	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
162	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:46:11	London Stock Exchange
28	2076.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:59:12	London Stock Exchange
150	2076.0000	02-Aug-2019 10:59:12	London Stock Exchange
104	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:22:22	London Stock Exchange
117	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:22:22	London Stock Exchange
200	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:22:22	London Stock Exchange
362	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:22:22	London Stock Exchange
178	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:24:02	London Stock Exchange
161	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:25:42	London Stock Exchange
23	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:26:32	London Stock Exchange
73	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:26:32	London Stock Exchange
67	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:26:32	London Stock Exchange
193	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:29:12	London Stock Exchange
175	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:30:52	London Stock Exchange
176	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:31:32	London Stock Exchange
138	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:36:32	London Stock Exchange
23	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:36:32	London Stock Exchange
161	2078.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:47:35	London Stock Exchange
89	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:50:56	London Stock Exchange
64	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:51:32	London Stock Exchange
111	2080.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:51:32	London Stock Exchange
163	2082.0000	02-Aug-2019 11:58:51	London Stock Exchange
178	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:12:03	London Stock Exchange
171	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:13:43	London Stock Exchange
67	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:15:23	London Stock Exchange
65	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:15:23	London Stock Exchange
29	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:15:23	London Stock Exchange
131	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:17:03	London Stock Exchange
100	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:18:43	London Stock Exchange
27	2084.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:20:23	London Stock Exchange
177	2088.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:32:00	London Stock Exchange
77	2088.0000	02-Aug-2019 12:33:17	London Stock Exchange

 

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