Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC
22 February 2024
 

22 February 2024

 

S4 Capital plc

("S4Capital" or the "Company")

 

Transaction in own shares

 

In accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 26 January 2024, the Company announces that on 21 February 2024 it purchased 273,527 ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in the market through Dowgate Capital Limited. The Company intends that the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

 

Date of purchase:

21 February 2024

Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:

273,527

Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.4066

Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.4224

Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.4135

 

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,064,256 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 3,007,731 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 580,056,525. 

 

The above figure of 580,056,525 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, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), (as in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme.

 

Shares purchased: S4 Capital plc (ISIN: GB00BFZZM640)

 

Individual transactions:

 

Number of Ordinary Shares purchased

Transaction price (GBP)

Time of transaction

(UK Time)

Transaction reference number

Trading venue



 1,079

 0.4140

09:01:56

00038096760TRLO0

XLON


 16,054

 0.4140

09:01:56

00038096759TRLO0

XLON


 1

 0.4108

09:26:30

00038097568TRLO0

XLON


 1,200

 0.4108

09:26:30

00038097567TRLO0

XLON


 1,314

 0.4108

09:26:30

00038097566TRLO0

XLON


 83

 0.4108

09:26:39

00038097569TRLO0

XLON


 1,609

 0.4130

09:27:36

00038097584TRLO0

XLON


 4,368

 0.4130

09:27:36

00038097583TRLO0

XLON


 3,488

 0.4110

09:27:36

00038097582TRLO0

XLON


 3,597

 0.4110

09:27:36

00038097581TRLO0

XLON


 3,315

 0.4066

10:30:28

00038099595TRLO0

XLON


 1,161

 0.4066

10:33:36

00038099676TRLO0

XLON


 1,969

 0.4066

10:37:42

00038099771TRLO0

XLON


 3,466

 0.4066

10:47:28

00038100047TRLO0

XLON


 1,932

 0.4066

10:47:28

00038100046TRLO0

XLON


 3,109

 0.4100

11:08:29

00038100539TRLO0

XLON


 3,334

 0.4100

11:08:29

00038100538TRLO0

XLON


 6,292

 0.4140

11:21:33

00038101265TRLO0

XLON


 2,126

 0.4140

11:40:38

00038101782TRLO0

XLON


 4,259

 0.4140

11:40:38

00038101781TRLO0

XLON


 5,543

 0.4112

11:56:53

00038102264TRLO0

XLON


 1,492

 0.4110

11:56:53

00038102263TRLO0

XLON


 1,200

 0.4110

11:56:53

00038102262TRLO0

XLON


 3,600

 0.4110

11:56:53

00038102261TRLO0

XLON


 676

 0.4114

12:59:55

00038104124TRLO0

XLON


 3,228

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104376TRLO0

XLON


 3,226

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104375TRLO0

XLON


 590

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104374TRLO0

XLON


 1,200

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104373TRLO0

XLON


 1,200

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104372TRLO0

XLON


 2,974

 0.4114

13:13:29

00038104371TRLO0

XLON


 592

 0.4088

14:59:55

00038108208TRLO0

XLON


 3,216

 0.4088

15:06:45

00038108560TRLO0

XLON


 1,811

 0.4088

15:06:45

00038108559TRLO0

XLON


 6,681

 0.4112

16:15:02

00038112589TRLO0

XLON


 12,771

 0.4100

16:15:02

00038112594TRLO0

XLON


 4,906

 0.4100

16:15:02

00038112593TRLO0

XLON


 1,112

 0.4100

16:15:02

00038112592TRLO0

XLON


 4,906

 0.4100

16:15:02

00038112591TRLO0

XLON


 5,882

 0.4100

16:15:02

00038112590TRLO0

XLON


 5,972

 0.4110

16:23:02

00038113319TRLO0

XLON


 1,715

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113329TRLO0

XLON


 4,381

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113328TRLO0

XLON


 1,067

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113327TRLO0

XLON


 4,381

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113326TRLO0

XLON


 8,247

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113325TRLO0

XLON


 81

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113324TRLO0

XLON


 8,274

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113323TRLO0

XLON


 4,381

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113322TRLO0

XLON


 17,516

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113321TRLO0

XLON


 4,381

 0.4100

16:23:02

00038113320TRLO0

XLON


 572

 0.4100

16:29:14

00038114070TRLO0

XLON


 5,001

 0.4100

16:29:14

00038114069TRLO0

XLON


 4,335

 0.4100

16:29:23

00038114099TRLO0

XLON


 1,223

 0.4100

16:29:23

00038114098TRLO0

XLON


 1,949

 0.4100

16:29:35

00038114144TRLO0

XLON


 4,273

 0.4100

16:29:35

00038114143TRLO0

XLON


 2,859

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114420TRLO0

XLON


 2,082

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114419TRLO0

XLON


 11,136

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114418TRLO0

XLON


 23,324

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114417TRLO0

XLON


 770

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114416TRLO0

XLON


 7,928

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114415TRLO0

XLON


 923

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114414TRLO0

XLON


 882

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114413TRLO0

XLON


 7,388

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114412TRLO0

XLON


 7,924

 0.4224

16:35:13

00038114411TRLO0

XLON


 

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

 

Enquiries:

S4Capital

Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003

Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)


Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital)

Tel: +44 (0) 7970 246 725

Elly Williamson


Pete Lambie


About S4 Capital

 

S4 Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

 

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&Digital Media and Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure. Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Christopher S. Martin, Scott Spirit and Mary Basterfield all joined the S4 Capital Board as Executive Directors. The S4 Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young and Colin Day.

 

The Company now has approximately 7,700 people in 32 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 25% and Technology Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of 50%:25%:25%.

 

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

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