Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0877Y

HSBC Holdings PLC

16 August 2018

 

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

16 August 2018

Transaction in own shares and completion of Buyback

HSBC Holdings plc (the Company) announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (Credit Suisse) as part of its buyback announced on 9 May 2018.

Date of purchase:	16 August 2018
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:	1,343,000
Highest price paid per share:	£7.0600
Lowest price paid per share:	£6.9860
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	£7.0318

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,231,811,598 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc will be 19,906,538,191. This figure for the total number of voting rights 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, HSBC Holdings plc under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these shares, the Buyback has completed. Since the commencement of the Buyback, the Company has repurchased for cancellation 210,466,091 Ordinary Shares at a volume weighted average price of £7.1883 per Ordinary Share for a total consideration of approximately US$2billion.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0877Y_1-2018-8-16.pdf

This announcement will also be available on HSBC's website at www.hsbc.com/sea

Enquiries to:

JJ Williams

Shareholder Services

[phone]

 

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