Transaction in Own Shares

FirstGroup plc

Transaction in own shares

FirstGroup plc ("FirstGroup") announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme (the "Programme") announced on 16 December 2022, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”) through RBC Europe Limited.

Date of Purchase	09 March 2023
Number of ordinary shares purchased	307,806
Weighted average price paid (p)	105.85
Highest price paid (p)	106.90
Lowest price paid (p)	104.10

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 24,495,685 Ordinary Shares in treasury.  The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 726,063,019. FirstGroup initially intends to hold the purchased shares as treasury shares but may cancel them in the due course.

The total number of voting rights in FirstGroup, excluding treasury shares as at 9 March 2023 is 726,063,019. This figure 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, FirstGroup under the FCA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contacts at FirstGroup: Marianna Bowes, Head of Investor Relations David Blizzard, Company Secretary [e-mail] Tel: [phone]	Contacts at Brunswick PR: Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer Tel: [phone]
Contacts at Liberum Capital Limited: Nicholas How / John Fishley / William Hall  Tel: [phone]	Contacts at RBC Europe Limited: James Agnew / Jonathan Hardy / Jack Wood Tel: [phone]

Transaction details

Issuer name: FirstGroup PLC

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

ISIN: GB0003452173

Classification: 2.4. Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares

Intermediary name: RBC Europe Limited

Intermediary Code: ROYCGB22

Timezone: GMT

Currency: GBp

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a breakdown of the individual trades made by RBC Europe Limited on behalf of FirstGroup as part of the Programme is detailed below:

Aggregate information: 

Venue	Weighted average price (pence per share)	Aggregated volume
XLON	254,982	105.97
BATE	19,135	105.24
CHIX	22,113	105.36
TRQX	11,576	105.27

Individual transactions:

Transaction Time	Volume	Price (GBp)	Venue
08:06:47	21	104.70	BATE
08:16:36	7	104.50	CHIX
08:16:36	8	104.50	BATE
08:16:36	7	104.50	XLON
08:16:36	7	104.50	TRQX
08:16:36	117	104.50	TRQX
08:28:34	16	104.90	XLON
08:28:37	17	104.90	CHIX
08:31:11	98	104.90	XLON
08:31:12	231	105.30	CHIX
08:31:14	294	105.30	BATE
08:40:40	169	104.80	CHIX
08:41:43	141	105.20	XLON
08:41:47	361	105.30	XLON
08:48:12	210	105.20	XLON
08:48:14	244	105.20	XLON
09:12:28	204	104.70	TRQX
09:12:28	205	104.70	XLON
09:12:28	205	104.70	CHIX
09:12:28	205	104.70	BATE
09:12:29	232	105.00	XLON
09:26:29	194	104.60	XLON
09:26:29	195	104.60	CHIX
09:26:29	195	104.60	BATE
09:26:29	194	104.60	TRQX
09:26:29	68	104.60	XLON
09:42:03	147	104.40	XLON
09:42:03	147	104.40	BATE
09:42:03	147	104.40	CHIX
09:43:31	109	104.40	XLON
09:43:31	474	104.50	XLON
09:45:30	351	104.60	XLON
09:45:32	363	104.60	XLON
09:45:33	122	104.80	XLON
09:45:35	128	104.80	XLON
09:45:35	110	105.00	BATE
09:45:35	62	104.40	TRQX
09:45:35	47	104.40	TRQX
10:09:54	9	104.10	TRQX
10:09:54	113	104.10	XLON
10:09:54	114	104.10	CHIX
10:09:54	114	104.10	BATE
10:09:54	104	104.10	TRQX
10:09:54	117	104.10	TRQX
10:09:54	367	104.10	TRQX
10:09:54	208	104.10	TRQX
10:11:09	105	104.20	XLON
10:11:11	765	104.50	XLON
10:11:11	494	104.50	XLON
10:11:14	321	104.50	XLON
10:11:15	28	104.70	XLON
10:11:15	658	104.70	XLON
10:11:40	392	104.60	XLON
10:19:35	328	104.50	XLON
10:30:32	329	104.60	BATE
10:30:35	328	104.60	CHIX
10:30:36	115	104.60	XLON
10:30:36	904	104.70	CHIX
10:30:38	115	104.70	CHIX
10:30:41	115	104.70	BATE
10:30:42	40	104.70	CHIX
10:30:44	40	104.70	BATE
10:30:45	14	104.70	CHIX
10:30:46	14	104.70	BATE
10:30:47	5	104.70	CHIX
10:30:50	748	104.70	XLON
10:30:50	494	104.70	XLON
10:30:52	5	104.70	BATE
10:30:56	3	104.70	TRQX
10:30:56	325	104.70	TRQX
10:30:57	434	104.70	XLON
10:30:59	2	104.70	BATE
10:51:31	69	104.50	XLON
11:12:48	385	104.50	XLON
11:22:52	386	104.30	BATE
11:22:52	386	104.30	CHIX
11:22:52	135	104.30	XLON
11:22:52	17	104.30	XLON
11:22:52	132	104.30	XLON
11:23:22	306	104.60	XLON
11:23:22	306	104.70	BATE
11:23:22	366	104.70	CHIX
11:23:22	510	104.70	XLON
11:23:22	42	104.80	XLON
11:30:43	359	104.40	XLON
12:21:32	809	104.60	BATE
12:21:32	648	104.60	BATE
12:21:32	306	104.60	CHIX
12:21:32	619	104.60	XLON
12:21:32	2,280	104.60	XLON
12:21:32	305	104.60	TRQX
12:21:32	143	104.60	BATE
12:24:02	993	104.80	XLON
12:26:40	329	104.90	XLON
12:26:40	563	104.90	XLON
12:26:40	101	104.90	XLON
12:49:16	386	104.60	CHIX
12:49:16	607	104.60	CHIX
12:49:16	993	104.60	XLON
12:49:16	993	104.60	BATE
12:49:16	993	104.60	TRQX
12:49:28	114	104.50	XLON
12:49:28	663	104.70	CHIX
12:49:28	3	104.70	CHIX
12:56:47	300	104.70	XLON
12:56:47	173	104.70	XLON
12:56:50	320	104.90	XLON
12:59:19	129	104.60	TRQX
12:59:19	320	104.60	BATE
12:59:19	125	104.60	TRQX
12:59:19	328	104.60	CHIX
12:59:19	219	104.60	TRQX
12:59:19	327	104.60	XLON
12:59:22	536	104.50	XLON
13:14:35	179	104.40	CHIX
13:14:35	179	104.40	BATE
13:14:35	178	104.40	TRQX
13:14:35	178	104.40	XLON
13:14:35	140	104.40	XLON
13:40:09	1,709	104.60	XLON
13:40:09	408	104.60	XLON
13:40:09	592	104.60	XLON
13:40:11	168	104.60	CHIX
13:40:12	59	104.60	CHIX
13:40:18	569	104.70	CHIX
13:40:20	568	104.70	XLON
13:40:23	271	104.70	CHIX
13:40:25	202	104.70	CHIX
13:40:26	199	104.70	XLON
13:40:29	169	104.70	BATE
13:40:32	95	104.70	CHIX
13:40:35	70	104.70	XLON
13:40:38	70	104.70	CHIX
13:40:41	59	104.70	BATE
13:40:44	33	104.70	CHIX
13:40:47	25	104.70	XLON
13:40:50	24	104.70	CHIX
13:40:53	21	104.70	BATE
13:40:56	12	104.70	CHIX
13:40:59	9	104.70	CHIX
13:41:02	8	104.70	XLON
13:41:05	7	104.70	BATE
13:41:08	4	104.70	CHIX
13:41:11	3	104.70	CHIX
13:41:14	3	104.70	BATE
13:41:17	3	104.70	XLON
13:41:20	1	104.70	CHIX
13:41:23	1	104.70	CHIX
13:46:43	1	104.50	CHIX
13:46:43	1	104.50	BATE
13:46:43	1	104.50	XLON
13:46:43	168	104.50	TRQX
13:53:02	392	104.40	CHIX
13:53:02	441	104.40	CHIX
14:13:17	166	104.60	BATE
14:13:23	186	104.70	BATE
14:13:26	476	104.70	BATE
14:13:29	804	104.70	BATE
14:13:29	446	104.70	BATE
14:13:32	165	104.70	XLON
14:13:35	226	104.70	TRQX
14:13:35	104	104.70	TRQX
14:13:38	58	104.70	XLON
14:13:41	50	104.70	CHIX
14:13:44	21	104.70	XLON
14:13:47	17	104.70	CHIX
14:13:50	8	104.70	XLON
14:13:53	6	104.70	CHIX
14:13:56	2	104.70	XLON
14:13:59	2	104.70	CHIX
14:14:02	1	104.70	XLON
14:16:13	1	104.70	CHIX
14:18:12	167	104.60	BATE
14:18:12	437	104.60	BATE
14:18:12	48	104.60	XLON
14:18:12	115	104.60	TRQX
14:19:52	161	104.70	XLON
14:19:53	161	104.70	CHIX
14:19:56	56	104.70	XLON
14:19:59	56	104.70	CHIX
14:20:02	20	104.70	XLON
14:20:05	20	104.70	CHIX
14:20:07	7	104.70	XLON
14:20:11	7	104.70	CHIX
14:20:14	2	104.70	XLON
14:28:04	3	104.60	CHIX
14:28:05	172	104.60	XLON
14:28:08	60	104.60	XLON
14:35:11	81	104.40	XLON
14:35:11	81	104.40	CHIX
14:35:11	161	104.40	BATE
14:35:11	160	104.40	TRQX
14:44:14	176	104.50	XLON
14:44:16	202	104.50	XLON
14:44:17	24	104.50	XLON
14:44:17	23	104.60	XLON
14:44:17	48	104.60	XLON
14:52:59	150	104.60	BATE
14:52:59	150	104.70	XLON
14:54:16	369	104.70	BATE
14:54:17	150	104.70	CHIX
14:54:20	129	104.70	BATE
14:54:23	52	104.70	CHIX
14:54:26	46	104.70	BATE
14:54:29	18	104.70	CHIX
14:54:32	16	104.70	BATE
15:04:17	45	104.80	XLON
15:04:18	3	104.70	XLON
15:04:22	452	104.80	BATE
15:04:31	2	105.00	XLON
15:11:49	445	104.90	CHIX
15:11:50	271	104.90	CHIX
15:17:12	445	104.80	XLON
15:17:13	348	104.80	CHIX
15:17:14	354	104.80	BATE
15:17:14	91	104.80	BATE
15:17:14	155	104.90	XLON
15:17:17	87	104.80	CHIX
15:17:17	105	104.90	XLON
15:19:22	147	104.90	XLON
15:19:23	283	104.90	XLON
15:19:26	21	104.90	CHIX
15:19:26	126	104.90	CHIX
15:19:28	99	104.90	XLON
15:19:29	52	104.90	CHIX
15:19:32	51	104.90	XLON
15:19:35	34	104.90	XLON
15:19:38	12	104.90	XLON
15:19:40	18	104.90	XLON
15:19:41	4	104.90	XLON
15:19:44	7	104.90	XLON
15:19:47	1	104.90	XLON
15:19:50	2	104.90	XLON
15:19:53	1	104.90	XLON
15:26:10	147	104.70	TRQX
15:26:10	1	104.70	XLON
15:26:10	18	104.70	CHIX
15:26:10	148	104.70	BATE
15:26:10	51	104.70	XLON
15:30:01	3	104.70	CHIX
15:30:01	110	104.70	CHIX
15:30:01	261	104.70	CHIX
15:30:01	374	104.80	XLON
15:31:57	36	104.80	XLON
15:31:59	353	104.80	XLON
15:32:02	146	104.80	XLON
15:32:05	124	104.80	XLON
15:32:08	51	104.80	XLON
15:32:11	43	104.80	XLON
15:32:14	408	104.80	XLON
15:32:17	15	104.80	XLON
15:32:20	143	104.80	XLON
15:32:23	5	104.80	XLON
15:32:26	51	104.80	XLON
15:32:29	1	104.80	XLON
15:34:16	18	104.90	XLON
15:34:16	679	105.00	XLON
15:49:21	415	105.10	XLON
15:49:21	203	105.30	XLON
15:49:22	1,813	105.40	XLON
15:49:22	658	105.40	XLON
15:49:24	675	105.40	XLON
15:49:24	937	105.40	XLON
15:50:00	374	105.40	BATE
15:50:00	1,613	105.40	CHIX
15:50:00	856	105.40	XLON
15:50:00	992	105.40	TRQX
15:50:00	137	105.40	XLON
15:50:53	993	105.60	BATE
15:50:53	993	105.60	CHIX
15:50:53	993	105.60	TRQX
15:50:53	993	105.60	XLON
15:54:04	993	105.60	XLON
15:54:04	993	105.60	TRQX
15:54:04	993	105.60	BATE
15:54:04	993	105.60	CHIX
16:01:25	236	105.50	BATE
16:16:42	917	106.00	XLON
16:16:44	236	105.80	CHIX
16:16:44	963	105.80	BATE
16:16:44	993	105.80	TRQX
16:16:44	993	105.80	XLON
16:16:44	593	105.90	TRQX
16:16:44	591	105.90	XLON
16:16:44	62	105.90	TRQX
16:16:44	3,129	105.90	XLON
16:16:50	1,626	106.30	XLON
16:16:50	637	106.30	XLON
16:16:50	158	106.30	XLON
16:16:50	176	106.30	XLON
16:16:50	940	106.30	XLON
16:16:50	3,550	106.40	XLON
16:16:50	934	106.40	XLON
16:16:50	7,277	106.40	XLON
16:17:02	1,986	106.10	CHIX
16:17:02	1,986	106.10	BATE
16:17:02	5,354	106.10	XLON
16:17:03	1,320	106.20	XLON
16:17:03	1,730	106.20	XLON
16:17:03	945	106.20	XLON
16:17:03	1,324	106.30	XLON
16:22:03	1,324	106.10	BATE
16:22:03	1,324	106.10	TRQX
16:22:03	840	106.15	BATE
16:22:04	638	106.30	CHIX
16:22:04	1,791	106.30	CHIX
16:22:04	1,884	106.30	CHIX
16:22:04	550	106.30	CHIX
16:22:04	29	106.00	CHIX
16:22:04	993	106.00	XLON
16:22:04	883	106.00	CHIX
16:22:04	637	106.00	XLON
16:22:04	993	106.00	TRQX
16:22:04	993	106.00	BATE
16:22:04	1,224	106.00	XLON
16:22:04	81	106.00	CHIX
16:22:04	1,047	106.20	XLON
16:22:06	921	106.20	XLON
16:24:06	671	106.20	XLON
16:24:06	450	106.20	XLON
16:27:18	811	106.30	XLON
16:27:18	724	106.30	XLON
16:27:18	993	106.40	XLON
16:28:18	866	106.60	XLON
16:28:18	1,928	106.60	XLON
16:28:18	2,218	106.70	XLON
16:28:18	658	106.70	XLON
16:29:05	192	106.65	BATE
16:29:05	1,404	106.80	XLON
16:29:05	2,612	106.90	XLON
16:35:15	19,254	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	6,636	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	15,726	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	994	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	8,962	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	1,736	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	430	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	4,229	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	8,342	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	125	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	1,066	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	25,500	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	14,452	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	939	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	2,370	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	1,611	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	1	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	630	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	236	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	9,618	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	5,657	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	10,932	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	282	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	13,335	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	6,849	106.10	XLON
16:35:15	10,265	106.10	XLON