Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4151E

Ascential PLC

27 February 2020

 

27 February 2020

Ascential plc

("the Company")

Transaction in own shares

Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), the global specialist information company, announces that on 27 February 2020 it purchased through Numis Securities Limited the following number of its ordinary shares for Cancellation at an average price of 347.9376 pence per share:

Number of ordinarysharespurchased:	170,000
Highest purchase price paidpershare:	351.40p
Lowest purchase price paidpershare:	344.40p

Following the above transaction, there are 402,764,977 ordinary shares of 1p each of Ascential plc in issue. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury at the date of this disclosure.

Therefore the above figure (402,764,977) can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to, their interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Numis Securities Limited on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

Enquiries:

Louise Meads, Company Secretary  [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (per share)	Time of transaction	Execution venue
34	345.8	08:10:11	XLON
859	345.8	08:10:11	XLON
1106	345.4	08:10:15	XLON
9	345.4	08:10:15	XLON
894	346.6	08:25:40	XLON
1063	346.6	08:25:40	XLON
689	349.2	08:50:21	XLON
581	349.2	08:50:21	XLON
1013	349.2	08:50:21	XLON
4	349.2	08:50:21	XLON
1003	349.2	08:50:21	XLON
2286	350.4	08:51:11	XLON
1200	350.4	08:51:11	XLON
563	350.4	08:51:11	XLON
889	349.4	08:53:20	XLON
301	349.4	08:53:41	XLON
716	349.4	08:53:41	XLON
400	350.8	09:16:23	XLON
4975	350.8	09:16:23	XLON
923	350.8	09:16:23	XLON
391	350.4	09:16:23	XLON
230	350.4	09:16:23	XLON
173	350.4	09:16:23	XLON
291	350.4	09:16:23	XLON
149	348.4	09:16:30	XLON
233	348.4	09:16:30	XLON
558	348.4	09:16:30	XLON
266	348.8	09:19:04	XLON
800	348.8	09:19:04	XLON
1077	348.4	09:27:32	XLON
826	348.0	09:27:33	XLON
71	348.0	09:27:33	XLON
1063	348.4	09:36:38	XLON
992	348.0	09:38:28	XLON
1041	347.8	09:56:49	XLON
871	347.8	09:56:49	XLON
1072	347.2	09:56:56	XLON
572	348.0	10:07:33	XLON
329	348.0	10:07:33	XLON
150	347.4	10:16:51	XLON
864	347.4	10:16:51	XLON
72	347.2	10:17:21	XLON
996	347.2	10:17:21	XLON
926	346.8	10:27:13	XLON
1071	348.4	10:33:40	XLON
905	349.6	10:41:24	XLON
989	349.4	10:41:25	XLON
1015	350.0	10:46:46	XLON
936	350.0	10:48:11	XLON
1069	349.6	10:54:02	XLON
1059	349.6	10:54:02	XLON
280	349.4	10:56:58	XLON
1021	349.0	10:57:00	XLON
286	348.8	10:58:50	XLON
750	348.8	10:58:50	XLON
959	348.8	11:09:14	XLON
400	348.6	11:20:18	XLON
633	348.6	11:20:18	XLON
794	348.6	11:25:12	XLON
181	348.6	11:25:12	XLON
1409	350.2	11:33:19	XLON
1043	351.0	11:35:41	XLON
1082	351.2	11:40:49	XLON
1041	351.2	11:41:40	XLON
914	351.0	11:42:51	XLON
398	350.4	11:42:58	XLON
524	350.4	11:42:58	XLON
245	351.4	12:05:01	XLON
739	351.4	12:05:01	XLON
39	351.0	12:05:01	XLON
1036	351.0	12:05:01	XLON
1076	350.4	12:05:11	XLON
553	350.0	12:10:51	XLON
293	350.0	12:10:51	XLON
102	350.0	12:10:51	XLON
15000	350.0	12:11:52	XLON
984	349.6	12:18:30	XLON
1024	348.8	12:18:48	XLON
885	349.8	12:23:52	XLON
967	349.8	12:28:33	XLON
900	350.0	12:39:53	XLON
628	348.8	12:47:51	XLON
271	348.8	12:47:51	XLON
968	349.2	13:05:54	XLON
950	348.8	13:12:50	XLON
126	347.6	13:19:23	XLON
85	347.6	13:19:23	XLON
854	347.6	13:19:23	XLON
1039	347.8	13:20:52	XLON
978	348.4	13:24:21	XLON
139	348.6	13:27:45	XLON
187	348.6	13:27:45	XLON
700	348.6	13:27:45	XLON
717	348.4	13:28:11	XLON
247	348.4	13:28:11	XLON
522	348.8	13:35:42	XLON
925	348.6	13:36:35	XLON
153	348.6	13:38:47	XLON
213	348.6	13:38:47	XLON
92	348.6	13:38:47	XLON
1292	348.6	13:39:02	XLON
1068	348.2	13:39:23	XLON
247	347.4	13:44:44	XLON
315	347.4	13:44:58	XLON
313	347.4	13:45:23	XLON
147	347.4	13:45:23	XLON
959	347.6	13:52:10	XLON
875	348.0	14:03:04	XLON
1012	348.2	14:09:15	XLON
508	348.0	14:10:13	XLON
990	348.4	14:14:40	XLON
928	347.8	14:16:02	XLON
878	347.8	14:22:27	XLON
266	347.4	14:25:38	XLON
786	347.4	14:25:38	XLON
468	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
162	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
45	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
129	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
15	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
52	345.2	14:29:09	XLON
880	346.2	14:31:23	XLON
1033	345.6	14:32:27	XLON
940	345.6	14:42:40	XLON
1083	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
3877	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
523	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
4026	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
4583	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
1049	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
1606	344.4	14:48:00	XLON
888	344.4	14:48:02	XLON
981	344.4	14:48:03	XLON
2690	344.4	14:48:03	XLON
758	344.4	14:48:03	XLON
1083	345.2	14:58:40	XLON
894	345.2	15:01:13	XLON
1056	345.2	15:01:40	XLON
1043	347.2	15:10:59	XLON
1043	347.2	15:10:59	XLON
478	347.2	15:10:59	XLON
615	348.0	15:21:56	XLON
357	348.0	15:21:56	XLON
1038	347.6	15:22:06	XLON
1004	347.4	15:22:52	XLON
351	346.8	15:24:29	XLON
536	346.8	15:24:29	XLON
976	347.0	15:24:29	XLON
332	345.8	15:29:00	XLON
545	345.8	15:29:00	XLON
1044	345.4	15:31:22	XLON
980	345.6	15:34:03	XLON
547	344.6	15:38:00	XLON
344	344.6	15:39:00	XLON
575	344.6	15:39:00	XLON
877	345.0	15:41:36	XLON
741	345.4	15:49:23	XLON
920	346.2	15:53:33	XLON
913	345.8	15:54:23	XLON
875	346.2	15:58:21	XLON
899	347.6	16:02:28	XLON
1039	348.0	16:03:53	XLON
1052	347.6	16:04:57	XLON
400	348.2	16:07:17	XLON
889	348.0	16:08:19	XLON
299	348.4	16:12:44	XLON
823	348.4	16:12:44	XLON
25	348.4	16:12:44	XLON
93	348.4	16:12:44	XLON
4400	348.0	16:13:29	XLON
4828	348.0	16:13:29	XLON
1000	348.0	16:13:29	XLON
713	348.0	16:13:29	XLON
1211	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
1493	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
1800	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
3377	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
720	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
458	348.0	16:13:30	XLON
602	347.4	16:13:31	XLON
353	347.4	16:13:31	XLON
541	348.0	16:17:39	XLON
380	348.0	16:17:39	XLON
638	348.8	16:21:03	XLON
511	348.8	16:21:15	XLON

 

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