Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8606E

CRH PLC

09 July 2019

 

9^th July 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 8^th July 2019 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the "ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange and/or Euronext Dublin, from CRH's broker J&E Davy. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

			London Stock Exchange	Euronext Dublin
Number of ordinary shares purchased:			40,000	98,000
Highest price paid per share:			GBp 2655.0	€29.63
Lowest price paid per share:			GBp 2623.0	€29.30
Volume weighted average price paid:			GBp 2639.0	€29.52

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to €350 million in the period to 16^th August 2019 following its announcement on 24^th April 2019 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 29^th April 2019.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 43,003,321 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 5.10% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 800,387,017 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made by J&E Davy on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

Contact:

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Issuer name:		CRH plc
LEI		549300MIDJNNTH068E74
ISIN:		IE0001827041
Intermediary name:		J&E Davy
Intermediary code:		DAVYIE21
Time zone:		BST
Currency:		GBp & EUR (as indicated below)
Aggregated Information
Trading venue		Currency	Volume Weighted Average Price	Aggregated volume
London Stock Exchange		GBp	2639.0	40,000
Euronext Dublin		EUR	29.52	98,000

Euronext Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (EUR)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
10000	29.63	EUR	8:19:50 AM	ISE	00029417124TRLO0-1
800	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417194TRLO0-1
1121	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417195TRLO0-1
800	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417196TRLO0-1
800	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417197TRLO0-1
800	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417198TRLO0-1
679	29.63	EUR	8:33:01 AM	ISE	00029417199TRLO0-1
6000	29.62	EUR	9:41:00 AM	ISE	00029417549TRLO0-1
5000	29.61	EUR	9:46:32 AM	ISE	00029417562TRLO0-1
6000	29.56	EUR	11:04:54 AM	ISE	00029418091TRLO0-1
10000	29.55	EUR	11:07:21 AM	ISE	00029418105TRLO0-1
12000	29.55	EUR	11:08:29 AM	ISE	00029418112TRLO0-1
15000	29.60	EUR	12:01:53 PM	ISE	00029418458TRLO0-1
15000	29.40	EUR	2:23:41 PM	ISE	00029419789TRLO0-1
10000	29.33	EUR	3:18:37 PM	ISE	00029420912TRLO0-1
4000	29.30	EUR	3:37:38 PM	ISE	00029421312TRLO0-1

London Stock Exchange

Number of Shares	Price Per Share (GBp)	Currency	Trade Time	Trading Venue	MatchID
68	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417254TRLO0-1
64	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417255TRLO0-1
8	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417256TRLO0-1
54	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417257TRLO0-1
65	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417258TRLO0-1
8	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417259TRLO0-1
1079	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417260TRLO0-1
8	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417261TRLO0-1
1237	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417262TRLO0-1
2409	2655	GBp	8:39:48 AM	LSE	00029417263TRLO0-1
10000	2655	GBp	8:41:58 AM	LSE	00029417293TRLO0-1
184	2645	GBp	9:49:12 AM	LSE	00029417602TRLO0-1
418	2645	GBp	9:49:12 AM	LSE	00029417603TRLO0-1
658	2645	GBp	9:49:12 AM	LSE	00029417604TRLO0-1
359	2645	GBp	9:49:12 AM	LSE	00029417605TRLO0-1
630	2645	GBp	9:49:12 AM	LSE	00029417606TRLO0-1
40	2645	GBp	10:02:19 AM	LSE	00029417677TRLO0-1
384	2645	GBp	10:02:19 AM	LSE	00029417678TRLO0-1
161	2645	GBp	10:02:19 AM	LSE	00029417679TRLO0-1
2166	2645	GBp	10:02:19 AM	LSE	00029417680TRLO0-1
10000	2623	GBp	3:56:07 PM	LSE	00029421592TRLO0-1
10000	2628	GBp	4:09:32 PM	LSE	00029421945TRLO0-1

 

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