Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1791F

Auto Trader Group plc

25 July 2016

 

AUTO TRADER GROUP PLC

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

Auto Trader Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 25 July 2016 it purchased through Numis Securities Ltd the following number of its ordinary shares for cancellation at an average price of 349.83p per share:

Number of ordinary shares purchased:                                                          255,000

Highest purchase price paid per share:                                                         351.10p

Lowest purchase price paid per share:                                                          347.30p

Following the above transaction, the Company has 1,000,374,699 ordinary shares in issue and holds 4,211,181 ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 996,163,518 which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Auto Trader Group plc 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 Ltd on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

Enquiries:

Sean Glithero

Finance Director

[phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (per share)	Time of transaction
600	347.3	09:01:21
1159	347.3	09:01:33
366	347.4	09:06:09
314	347.4	09:06:09
955	347.4	09:06:09
605	348.6	09:09:27
535	348.6	09:09:27
1216	347.9	09:10:09
7	347.9	09:12:27
100	351.1	15:57:41
143	351.1	15:57:41
249000	349.88	16:00:48

 

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