Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0421W

WH Smith PLC

03 February 2017

 

WH Smith PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 25 January 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme announced on 25 January 2017:

Date of purchase:                                            03 February 2017

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1639.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1622.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1633.5170 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 111,829,942 Shares in issue. This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Barclays on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

For further information, please contact:

WH Smith PLC

Mark Boyle

Investor Relations

020 7406 6320

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:           WH Smith PLC (ISIN CODE: GB00B2PDGW16)

Date of purchases:          03 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1632.3281	128
Chi-X Europe	1629.3677	2,706
Turquoise	1633.2680	403
London Stock Exchange	1634.2019	16,763

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
38	16.26	08:01:00	BATS Europe
88	16.22	08:06:55	Chi-X Europe
193	16.22	08:06:55	Chi-X Europe
203	16.22	08:06:55	Chi-X Europe
203	16.22	08:06:55	London Stock Exchange
38	16.27	08:11:32	Chi-X Europe
279	16.27	08:11:41	Chi-X Europe
342	16.28	08:18:55	Chi-X Europe
545	16.29	08:37:21	London Stock Exchange
251	16.29	08:37:21	Chi-X Europe
470	16.31	08:48:44	London Stock Exchange
656	16.33	09:07:21	London Stock Exchange
203	16.32	09:16:36	London Stock Exchange
203	16.32	09:16:36	London Stock Exchange
319	16.31	09:16:49	London Stock Exchange
253	16.30	09:20:47	London Stock Exchange
275	16.28	09:22:22	London Stock Exchange
397	16.30	09:35:40	London Stock Exchange
303	16.32	09:43:37	London Stock Exchange
203	16.32	09:43:37	London Stock Exchange
254	16.30	09:53:00	London Stock Exchange
90	16.30	09:53:00	London Stock Exchange
2	16.30	09:53:00	Chi-X Europe
212	16.30	09:53:00	Chi-X Europe
21	16.28	09:56:16	London Stock Exchange
155	16.28	09:56:16	London Stock Exchange
203	16.33	10:07:48	London Stock Exchange
437	16.33	10:07:48	London Stock Exchange
203	16.31	10:25:01	London Stock Exchange
266	16.31	10:25:01	London Stock Exchange
203	16.31	10:25:01	London Stock Exchange
266	16.30	10:33:02	London Stock Exchange
203	16.30	10:33:02	London Stock Exchange
50	16.32	10:57:26	Chi-X Europe
100	16.32	10:57:26	Chi-X Europe
53	16.32	10:57:26	Chi-X Europe
1	16.33	11:01:09	Turquoise
47	16.33	11:01:09	London Stock Exchange
7	16.33	11:01:09	London Stock Exchange
164	16.33	11:01:18	Chi-X Europe
160	16.34	11:06:31	London Stock Exchange
182	16.34	11:07:01	Chi-X Europe
20	16.34	11:07:01	Chi-X Europe
1	16.34	11:07:01	Chi-X Europe
203	16.35	11:12:28	Chi-X Europe
85	16.35	11:18:43	London Stock Exchange
118	16.35	11:18:43	London Stock Exchange
203	16.37	11:26:47	London Stock Exchange
33	16.37	11:28:49	London Stock Exchange
170	16.38	11:29:50	London Stock Exchange
54	16.38	11:35:13	London Stock Exchange
149	16.38	11:35:18	London Stock Exchange
203	16.37	11:44:31	London Stock Exchange
55	16.36	11:52:55	London Stock Exchange
39	16.38	11:53:13	Chi-X Europe
190	16.38	11:53:13	London Stock Exchange
130	16.38	11:53:13	London Stock Exchange
394	16.38	11:53:13	London Stock Exchange
73	16.38	11:53:13	Chi-X Europe
192	16.38	11:55:21	London Stock Exchange
11	16.38	11:55:21	London Stock Exchange
203	16.37	11:58:18	London Stock Exchange
203	16.36	12:03:26	London Stock Exchange
217	16.36	12:07:06	London Stock Exchange
346	16.36	12:07:06	London Stock Exchange
42	16.36	12:08:34	London Stock Exchange
26	16.36	12:08:34	London Stock Exchange
697	16.38	12:28:41	London Stock Exchange
8	16.37	12:29:23	London Stock Exchange
170	16.37	12:29:23	London Stock Exchange
179	16.37	12:29:23	London Stock Exchange
267	16.38	12:33:57	London Stock Exchange
265	16.36	12:43:50	London Stock Exchange
3	16.36	12:43:50	London Stock Exchange
200	16.36	12:43:50	London Stock Exchange
82	16.38	13:01:37	Turquoise
9	16.38	13:01:37	London Stock Exchange
112	16.38	13:01:37	London Stock Exchange
6	16.38	13:04:12	London Stock Exchange
60	16.38	13:04:12	London Stock Exchange
203	16.38	13:04:14	London Stock Exchange
800	16.36	13:06:41	London Stock Exchange
268	16.34	13:12:12	London Stock Exchange
96	16.33	13:27:48	London Stock Exchange
107	16.33	13:27:48	London Stock Exchange
311	16.32	13:29:55	Turquoise
342	16.32	13:29:55	London Stock Exchange
213	16.32	13:29:55	Chi-X Europe
9	16.35	13:35:31	London Stock Exchange
421	16.35	13:35:31	London Stock Exchange
44	16.33	13:49:42	London Stock Exchange
9	16.34	13:49:46	Turquoise
90	16.35	13:49:46	BATS Europe
250	16.35	13:49:46	London Stock Exchange
204	16.35	13:49:46	London Stock Exchange
203	16.34	13:54:24	London Stock Exchange
736	16.36	14:07:23	London Stock Exchange
459	16.36	14:07:23	London Stock Exchange
213	16.36	14:07:23	London Stock Exchange
100	16.36	14:07:23	London Stock Exchange
71	16.36	14:07:23	London Stock Exchange
100	16.39	14:20:10	London Stock Exchange
100	16.39	14:20:10	London Stock Exchange
24	16.39	14:20:10	London Stock Exchange
32	16.39	14:23:19	London Stock Exchange
100	16.39	14:23:19	London Stock Exchange
71	16.39	14:23:19	London Stock Exchange
265	16.39	14:23:19	London Stock Exchange

 

END

 

 

POSFMGGZNFGGNZM