Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC
10 October 2024
 

WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

 

10 October 2024

 








 










 

WH Smith PLC

 

Transactions in own shares

 

 









 

WH Smith PLC (the 'Company') announces the purchase, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 26 January 2024, of 10,737 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 10 October 2024 as part of the buyback programme announced on 23 September 2024 (the 'Programme').

The Company intends to cancel these shares.

Since the announcement of the programme (the 'Programme'), the Company has purchased a total of 153,514 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,762,778 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 Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The table below contains detailed information about the purchases referred to above.

 















Schedule of purchases


 










Shares purchased:

WH Smith PLC (ISIN: GB00B2PDGW16)


Date of purchases:

10 October 2024


Investment firm:

Barclays












Aggregate information


 










Venue

Aggregated number of ordinary shares purchased

Volume-weighted average price per share

Lowest price per share

Highest price per share


London Stock Exchange

10,737

13.9527

13.9100

14.0600






















In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Barclays on behalf of the Company is set out below.


Transaction Time

Time Zone

Volume

Price

Currency

Platform Code

Transaction reference number

 

08:02:54

BST

381

14.06

GBP

XLON

606256589796438329

 

08:30:00

BST

363

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839364476647

 

08:33:13

BST

239

13.92

GBP

XLON

592182839364567238

 

09:00:22

BST

100

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589797884572

 

09:00:22

BST

118

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589797884573

 

09:16:10

BST

189

13.91

GBP

XLON

606256589798285274

 

09:16:10

BST

200

13.91

GBP

XLON

592182839365707666

 

09:46:26

BST

304

13.94

GBP

XLON

592182839366474868

 

10:08:28

BST

303

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589799507475

 

10:43:54

BST

46

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355150

 

10:43:54

BST

149

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355152

 

10:43:54

BST

300

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355151

 

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839369897026

 

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196788

 

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196789

 

12:06:37

BST

245

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196786

 

12:07:24

BST

1

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216605

 

12:07:24

BST

58

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216606

 

12:07:24

BST

218

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216604

 

12:18:42

BST

121

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370175646

 

12:20:18

BST

73

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370212342

 

12:20:18

BST

88

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370212343

 

12:53:49

BST

323

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839370955014

 

13:30:01

BST

93

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589804020730

 

13:30:01

BST

107

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589804020735

 

13:30:02

BST

369

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589804025640

 

13:40:12

BST

293

13.92

GBP

XLON

592182839372275946

 

14:28:25

BST

22

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883434

 

14:28:25

BST

34

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883432

 

14:28:25

BST

79

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883433

 

14:28:25

BST

55

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805906139

 

14:29:10

BST

13

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928291

 

14:29:10

BST

21

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928292

 

14:29:10

BST

83

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928293

 

14:29:10

BST

76

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373907441

 

14:34:01

BST

37

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131894

 

14:34:01

BST

73

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131891

 

14:34:01

BST

100

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131892

 

14:34:01

BST

200

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131893

 

14:34:01

BST

411

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131896

 

14:34:01

BST

53

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131909

 

14:40:33

BST

2

13.96

GBP

XLON

606256589806418320

 

14:40:33

BST

428

13.96

GBP

XLON

606256589806418339

 

15:02:36

BST

211

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839375364807

 

15:02:36

BST

211

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589807290052

 

15:02:36

BST

423

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589807290053

 

15:14:23

BST

412

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839375836842

 

15:31:30

BST

8

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839376471559

 

15:31:30

BST

66

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324651

 

15:31:30

BST

100

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324650

 

15:31:30

BST

204

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839376471558

 

15:31:30

BST

218

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324649

 

15:48:19

BST

117

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839377058569

 

15:48:19

BST

187

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589808873170

 

15:48:19

BST

250

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839377058568

 

15:54:23

BST

459

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589809081318

 

16:16:19

BST

217

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589809963459

 

16:18:29

BST

80

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810054985

 

16:19:09

BST

95

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082053

 

16:19:09

BST

218

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082054

 

16:19:09

BST

248

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082056

 




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