Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8788Q

WH Smith PLC

02 December 2016

 

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 27 January 2016, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme initially announced on 13 October 2016:

Date of purchase:                                            2 December 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   40,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1504.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1477.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1488.1522 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,160,894 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:          2 December 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1491.8326	1,290
Chi-X Europe	1487.6556	2,895
Turquoise	1485.9169	2,009
London Stock Exchange	1488.1871	33,806

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
22	15.04	08:01:00	London Stock Exchange
208	14.91	08:11:04	Chi-X Europe
128	14.91	08:11:04	Chi-X Europe
222	14.90	08:11:08	Chi-X Europe
67	14.85	08:15:37	London Stock Exchange
155	14.85	08:15:41	London Stock Exchange
245	14.84	08:20:18	Chi-X Europe
6	14.84	08:20:18	Chi-X Europe
120	14.83	08:24:58	London Stock Exchange
192	14.83	08:24:58	London Stock Exchange
388	14.80	08:34:06	London Stock Exchange
18	14.84	08:41:42	London Stock Exchange
3	14.84	08:41:42	London Stock Exchange
264	14.84	08:41:42	London Stock Exchange
140	14.84	08:41:42	London Stock Exchange
419	14.86	08:54:14	London Stock Exchange
8	14.86	08:54:14	London Stock Exchange
67	14.84	09:01:42	London Stock Exchange
155	14.84	09:01:42	London Stock Exchange
94	14.84	09:01:42	London Stock Exchange
128	14.84	09:01:42	London Stock Exchange
36	14.83	09:10:39	London Stock Exchange
250	14.83	09:10:39	London Stock Exchange
143	14.83	09:10:39	London Stock Exchange
222	14.79	09:21:13	London Stock Exchange
222	14.79	09:21:13	London Stock Exchange
222	14.77	09:24:00	London Stock Exchange
317	14.77	09:35:51	London Stock Exchange
512	14.78	09:41:33	London Stock Exchange
222	14.79	09:59:10	Turquoise
288	14.79	09:59:10	London Stock Exchange
21	14.79	09:59:10	London Stock Exchange
251	14.79	09:59:10	Turquoise
201	14.79	09:59:10	London Stock Exchange
571	14.78	10:15:07	London Stock Exchange
234	14.78	10:15:07	Chi-X Europe
222	14.80	10:27:45	London Stock Exchange
303	14.80	10:27:45	London Stock Exchange
222	14.79	10:30:37	London Stock Exchange
148	14.85	10:55:48	London Stock Exchange
465	14.85	10:55:48	London Stock Exchange
222	14.85	11:02:47	London Stock Exchange
222	14.85	11:20:37	London Stock Exchange
222	14.85	11:20:37	London Stock Exchange
43	14.84	11:21:08	London Stock Exchange
69	14.84	11:21:08	London Stock Exchange
110	14.84	11:26:03	London Stock Exchange
229	14.84	11:26:03	London Stock Exchange
492	14.84	11:26:03	Turquoise
119	14.81	11:42:16	Chi-X Europe
103	14.81	11:42:16	Chi-X Europe
295	14.81	11:42:16	London Stock Exchange
132	14.81	11:42:16	London Stock Exchange
79	14.86	12:17:51	London Stock Exchange
208	14.86	12:17:51	London Stock Exchange
79	14.86	12:17:51	London Stock Exchange
153	14.85	12:19:30	London Stock Exchange
500	14.85	12:19:30	London Stock Exchange
231	14.85	12:19:30	London Stock Exchange
358	14.90	12:56:28	Chi-X Europe
827	14.90	12:56:28	London Stock Exchange
626	14.90	12:56:28	London Stock Exchange
57	14.90	12:56:28	London Stock Exchange
150	14.90	12:56:28	Chi-X Europe
5	14.90	12:56:28	Chi-X Europe
83	14.90	12:56:28	London Stock Exchange
36	14.88	13:11:28	London Stock Exchange
354	14.88	13:11:28	London Stock Exchange
36	14.88	13:11:28	London Stock Exchange
222	14.88	13:15:20	London Stock Exchange
4	14.89	13:29:37	London Stock Exchange
188	14.89	13:29:37	London Stock Exchange
30	14.89	13:29:37	London Stock Exchange
222	14.89	13:32:00	London Stock Exchange
319	14.89	13:35:46	Turquoise
156	14.90	13:40:00	London Stock Exchange
125	14.90	13:40:00	London Stock Exchange
8	14.90	13:40:00	London Stock Exchange
280	14.90	13:40:00	London Stock Exchange
27	14.90	13:40:00	London Stock Exchange
222	14.90	13:45:14	London Stock Exchange
222	14.88	13:46:42	London Stock Exchange
222	14.88	13:50:58	London Stock Exchange
336	14.90	14:07:26	London Stock Exchange
222	14.90	14:13:37	London Stock Exchange
253	14.90	14:13:37	London Stock Exchange
222	14.90	14:13:37	Chi-X Europe
254	14.90	14:13:37	London Stock Exchange
109	14.89	14:16:18	London Stock Exchange
107	14.89	14:16:18	London Stock Exchange
6	14.89	14:16:18	London Stock Exchange
425	14.92	14:22:59	London Stock Exchange
400	14.92	14:31:05	London Stock Exchange
306	14.92	14:31:05	Turquoise
425	14.91	14:36:16	London Stock Exchange
228	14.90	14:43:36	London Stock Exchange
29	14.93	14:55:46	London Stock Exchange
257	14.95	14:55:53	London Stock Exchange
255	14.95	14:56:27	London Stock Exchange
90	14.94	15:01:49	BATS Europe
90	14.94	15:01:49	BATS Europe
267	14.94	15:01:49	London Stock Exchange
222	14.94	15:04:03	London Stock Exchange
185	14.96	15:07:40	London Stock Exchange
37	14.96	15:07:40	London Stock Exchange
12	14.96	15:15:09	Chi-X Europe
2	14.96	15:15:24	London Stock Exchange
299	14.96	15:15:24	London Stock Exchange
100	14.95	15:17:19	BATS Europe
100	14.95	15:17:19	BATS Europe
209	14.95	15:17:19	London Stock Exchange
185	14.95	15:17:19	London Stock Exchange
245	14.95	15:17:19	London Stock Exchange
441	14.96	15:20:51	London Stock Exchange
27	14.96	15:20:51	London Stock Exchange
36	14.96	15:20:51	London Stock Exchange
159	14.96	15:20:51	London Stock Exchange
558	14.95	15:21:14	London Stock Exchange
418	14.92	15:27:59	London Stock Exchange
224	14.92	15:27:59	London Stock Exchange
425	14.90	15:34:30	London Stock Exchange
159	14.90	15:37:24	London Stock Exchange
63	14.90	15:37:24	London Stock Exchange
190	14.87	15:43:57	Turquoise
296	14.87	15:44:42	London Stock Exchange
177	14.87	15:46:13	London Stock Exchange
111	14.87	15:48:28	London Stock Exchange
111	14.87	15:49:29	London Stock Exchange
117	14.87	15:49:29	London Stock Exchange
196	14.87	15:49:29	London Stock Exchange
222	14.87	15:54:54	London Stock Exchange
222	14.87	15:54:54	London Stock Exchange
222	14.87	15:54:54	London Stock Exchange
325	14.88	16:03:17	London Stock Exchange
277	14.88	16:03:17	London Stock Exchange
165	14.88	16:03:17	London Stock Exchange
222	14.88	16:03:17	London Stock Exchange
90	14.90	16:11:20	BATS Europe
100	14.90	16:11:20	BATS Europe
32	14.90	16:11:20	BATS Europe
22	14.89	16:13:20	BATS Europe
222	14.89	16:15:19	Chi-X Europe
101	14.89	16:15:19	Chi-X Europe
321	14.89	16:15:19	Chi-X Europe
154	14.89	16:15:19	Chi-X Europe
260	14.89	16:15:19	London Stock Exchange
85	14.89	16:15:19	Chi-X Europe
123	14.89	16:15:32	BATS Europe
90	14.89	16:15:32	BATS Europe
9	14.89	16:15:32	BATS Europe
216	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
68	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
40	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
146	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
186	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
88	14.89	16:18:58	London Stock Exchange
340	14.91	16:26:03	London Stock Exchange
222	14.92	16:28:04	London Stock Exchange
66	14.92	16:28:04	London Stock Exchange
181	14.92	16:28:04	London Stock Exchange
9	14.92	16:28:04	London Stock Exchange
44	14.92	16:28:09	London Stock Exchange
257	14.92	16:28:09	London Stock Exchange
207	14.92	16:28:09	London Stock Exchange
90	14.92	16:28:20	BATS Europe
80	14.92	16:28:20	BATS Europe
50	14.92	16:28:20	BATS Europe
2	14.92	16:28:20	BATS Europe
172	14.92	16:29:06	BATS Europe
50	14.92	16:29:06	BATS Europe
229	14.91	16:29:06	Turquoise
8000	14.90	16:35:29	London Stock Exchange

 

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