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 8 June 2023, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”) through RBC Europe Limited.

Date of Purchase	05 October 2023
Number of ordinary shares purchased	401,024
Weighted average price paid (p)	145.26
Highest price paid (p)	145.70
Lowest price paid (p)	144.20

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 81,125,416 Ordinary Shares in treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 669,569,599. 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 4 October 2023 is 669,569,599. 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 Tel: [phone]	Contacts at RBC Europe Limited: James Agnew / 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	145.36	334,630
BATE	144.77	18,392
CHIX	144.84	23,480
TRQX	144.69	23,140
SIGMA-X	144.95	1,382

Individual transactions:

Transaction Time

Volume

Price (GBp)

Platform

8:08:24	87	144.80	BATE
8:08:24	86	144.80	CHIX
8:08:24	83	144.80	TRQX
8:08:24	86	144.80	XLON
8:10:24	73	145.30	BATE
8:10:24	73	145.30	CHIX
8:10:24	72	145.30	XLON
8:10:24	72	145.30	TRQX
8:10:24	70	145.30	BATE
8:11:02	93	145.20	BATE
8:11:02	93	145.20	TRQX
8:11:02	93	145.20	XLON
8:11:02	93	145.20	CHIX
8:11:02	131	145.20	BATE
8:17:02	58	144.90	BATE
8:17:02	57	144.90	XLON
8:17:02	57	144.90	TRQX
8:17:02	58	144.90	CHIX
8:23:15	71	145.70	XLON
8:23:18	83	145.70	XLON
8:25:29	125	145.30	CHIX
8:25:29	126	145.30	BATE
8:26:11	112	145.20	CHIX
8:26:11	112	145.20	BATE
8:26:11	111	145.20	XLON
8:29:45	19	145.20	XLON
8:29:45	40	145.20	TRQX
8:29:45	129	145.20	BATE
8:29:45	109	145.20	XLON
8:29:45	88	145.20	TRQX
8:29:45	128	145.20	CHIX
8:29:45	30	145.20	XLON
8:30:02	97	145.20	BATE
8:30:02	97	145.20	CHIX
8:30:02	97	145.20	XLON
8:30:02	96	145.20	TRQX
8:52:18	55	145.30	BATE
8:52:18	55	145.30	CHIX
8:52:18	54	145.30	TRQX
8:53:02	155	145.30	BATE
8:53:02	53	145.30	CHIX
8:56:01	66	145.30	BATE
8:56:01	194	145.30	CHIX
10:01:31	140	145.30	CHIX
10:01:31	21	145.30	CHIX
10:01:31	98	145.30	BATE
10:01:31	54	145.30	XLON
10:01:31	52	145.30	TRQX
10:01:31	1,029	145.20	BATE
10:01:41	160	145.00	TRQX
10:01:41	160	145.00	XLON
10:01:41	161	145.00	BATE
10:01:41	161	145.00	CHIX
10:01:41	56	145.00	BATE
10:06:50	128	144.90	CHIX
10:06:50	128	144.90	BATE
10:06:50	127	144.90	XLON
10:06:50	127	144.90	TRQX
10:06:50	78	145.00	BATE
10:06:50	639	145.10	XLON
10:06:50	279	145.10	XLON
10:06:50	691	145.10	CHIX
10:27:01	345	144.80	CHIX
10:27:01	291	144.80	CHIX
10:27:01	591	144.80	BATE
10:27:01	286	144.80	XLON
10:27:01	314	144.80	TRQX
10:27:01	349	144.80	XLON
10:27:01	321	144.80	TRQX
11:03:18	476	144.60	TRQX
11:03:18	476	144.60	XLON
11:13:14	477	145.00	BATE
11:13:14	477	145.00	CHIX
11:13:14	476	145.00	TRQX
11:13:14	476	145.00	XLON
11:13:14	888	145.20	XLON
11:19:15	516	144.90	BATE
11:19:15	635	144.90	CHIX
11:19:15	120	144.90	BATE
11:19:15	58	144.90	TRQX
11:19:15	59	144.90	TRQX
11:19:15	518	144.90	TRQX
11:44:31	463	144.80	XLON
11:44:31	341	144.80	CHIX
11:44:31	123	144.80	CHIX
11:44:31	307	144.80	TRQX
11:44:31	156	144.80	TRQX
11:44:33	149	145.10	XLON
11:44:33	569	145.10	XLON
11:44:33	417	145.10	XLON
11:44:36	257	145.10	CHIX
12:05:00	825	144.80	XLON
12:05:00	310	144.80	XLON
12:05:00	257	144.80	BATE
12:05:00	257	144.80	TRQX
12:05:03	64	145.10	BATE
12:05:03	27	145.10	BATE
12:05:03	85	145.10	BATE
12:50:15	47	144.90	CHIX
12:50:15	151	144.90	CHIX
12:50:15	257	144.90	BATE
12:50:15	59	144.90	CHIX
12:50:15	27	144.90	TRQX
12:50:15	87	144.90	TRQX
12:50:15	749	144.90	XLON
12:50:15	143	144.90	TRQX
12:50:15	386	144.90	XLON
13:12:48	476	145.10	TRQX
13:12:48	477	145.10	BATE
13:12:48	477	145.10	CHIX
13:12:48	342	145.10	XLON
13:12:48	952	145.00	TRQX
13:13:29	636	144.90	CHIX
13:13:29	1226	144.90	BATE
13:13:29	635	144.90	XLON
13:13:29	551	145.00	CHIX
13:38:01	1,260	144.90	BATE
13:38:01	163	144.90	TRQX
13:38:01	636	144.90	CHIX
13:38:01	635	144.90	XLON
13:38:01	472	144.90	TRQX
13:38:01	800	144.85	TRQX
13:38:02	797	144.85	BATE
14:02:35	148	144.70	TRQX
14:05:26	59	144.60	TRQX
14:05:26	135	144.60	CHIX
14:05:26	136	144.60	BATE
14:05:26	135	144.60	XLON
14:05:26	23	144.60	TRQX
14:05:26	495	144.80	XLON
14:05:26	28	144.80	XLON
14:33:48	225	144.50	CHIX
14:33:48	225	144.50	TRQX
14:33:48	225	144.50	BATE
14:33:48	225	144.50	XLON
14:39:12	117	144.40	CHIX
14:39:12	67	144.40	TRQX
14:39:12	252	144.40	XLON
14:39:12	55	144.70	BATE
14:39:12	198	144.70	BATE
14:39:13	185	144.70	TRQX
14:39:16	291	144.70	BATE
14:39:17	290	144.70	XLON
14:39:18	135	144.70	CHIX
14:39:19	116	144.70	BATE
14:39:21	116	144.70	XLON
14:39:22	74	144.70	TRQX
14:39:23	54	144.70	CHIX
14:39:24	47	144.70	CHIX
14:39:27	47	144.70	BATE
14:39:28	46	144.70	XLON
14:39:31	30	144.70	TRQX
14:39:34	21	144.70	CHIX
14:39:37	19	144.70	CHIX
14:39:40	19	144.70	BATE
14:39:41	18	144.70	XLON
14:39:43	12	144.70	TRQX
14:39:46	9	144.70	CHIX
14:39:48	8	144.70	BATE
14:39:50	7	144.70	XLON
14:39:52	7	144.70	CHIX
14:39:55	5	144.70	TRQX
14:39:58	4	144.70	BATE
14:40:00	3	144.70	CHIX
14:40:01	3	144.70	CHIX
14:40:04	2	144.70	XLON
14:40:06	2	144.70	BATE
14:40:10	2	144.70	TRQX
14:40:13	1	144.70	CHIX
14:41:36	1	144.70	TRQX
14:41:37	111	144.70	CHIX
14:41:40	1	144.70	CHIX
14:48:00	1	144.50	BATE
14:48:00	44	144.50	CHIX
14:48:00	1	144.50	XLON
14:48:00	1	144.50	TRQX
14:52:34	227	144.90	CHIX
14:52:34	483	144.90	CHIX
14:59:29	1382	144.95	Sigma-X
14:59:30	190	145.10	XLON
14:59:30	284	145.10	XLON
14:59:30	878	145.10	XLON
14:59:30	1,610	144.90	CHIX
14:59:31	99	145.00	XLON
14:59:38	119	144.80	CHIX
15:00:20	30	144.90	TRQX
15:00:20	99	144.90	BATE
15:00:20	290	144.90	TRQX
15:00:20	1290	144.90	TRQX
15:00:21	738	145.10	CHIX
15:00:21	276	145.10	CHIX
15:00:21	706	145.10	CHIX
15:15:10	603	144.80	CHIX
15:15:10	603	144.80	BATE
15:15:10	602	144.80	XLON
15:15:10	98	144.80	TRQX
15:15:10	136	144.95	BATE
15:30:23	636	144.90	BATE
15:30:23	635	144.90	CHIX
15:30:23	635	144.90	XLON
15:30:23	1,745	144.90	TRQX
15:30:24	476	145.00	XLON
15:33:29	477	144.90	CHIX
15:33:29	477	144.90	BATE
15:33:29	476	144.90	TRQX
15:33:29	784	144.80	TRQX
15:33:29	1,746	144.80	CHIX
15:33:29	477	144.70	CHIX
15:33:29	147	144.70	BATE
15:33:29	476	144.70	XLON
15:33:29	330	144.70	BATE
15:33:29	476	144.70	TRQX
15:34:29	347	144.60	BATE
15:34:29	130	144.60	BATE
15:34:29	477	144.60	CHIX
15:34:29	476	144.60	XLON
15:34:29	476	144.60	TRQX
15:39:59	477	144.30	BATE
15:39:59	476	144.30	TRQX
15:39:59	476	144.30	XLON
15:39:59	477	144.30	CHIX
15:51:26	218	144.40	BATE
15:51:26	477	144.40	CHIX
15:51:26	259	144.40	BATE
15:51:26	476	144.40	XLON
15:51:26	476	144.40	TRQX
15:52:43	477	144.40	CHIX
15:52:43	477	144.40	BATE
15:52:43	476	144.40	XLON
15:52:43	476	144.40	TRQX
15:54:07	85	144.30	CHIX
15:55:51	392	144.40	CHIX
15:55:51	371	144.40	XLON
15:55:51	29	144.40	TRQX
15:55:51	105	144.40	XLON
15:55:51	447	144.40	TRQX
15:55:51	430	144.40	BATE
15:55:51	47	144.40	BATE
15:59:54	285	144.30	TRQX
16:03:10	69	144.40	CHIX
16:03:10	408	144.40	CHIX
16:03:10	476	144.40	XLON
16:03:10	191	144.40	TRQX
16:03:10	334	144.40	BATE
16:03:10	143	144.40	BATE
16:03:22	476	144.40	XLON
16:03:22	476	144.40	TRQX
16:03:22	477	144.40	CHIX
16:03:22	477	144.40	BATE
16:03:22	476	144.40	TRQX
16:03:22	238	144.40	XLON
16:03:22	238	144.40	XLON
16:05:14	476	144.30	TRQX
16:05:14	72	144.30	BATE
16:05:14	450	144.30	CHIX
16:05:14	35	144.30	XLON
16:05:14	405	144.30	BATE
16:05:14	27	144.30	CHIX
16:05:14	441	144.30	XLON
16:07:44	644	144.30	TRQX
16:07:44	330	144.30	BATE
16:07:44	329	144.30	XLON
16:07:44	273	144.30	TRQX
16:07:44	14	144.30	CHIX
16:09:25	316	144.30	CHIX
16:09:25	917	144.30	TRQX
16:10:24	201	144.30	TRQX
16:10:24	530	144.30	XLON
16:10:24	329	144.30	TRQX
16:10:24	530	144.30	BATE
16:10:24	179	144.30	XLON
16:14:44	476	144.20	TRQX
16:18:14	476	144.20	XLON
16:21:54	322	144.30	XLON
16:21:54	450	144.30	TRQX
16:21:54	384	144.40	BATE
16:21:54	93	144.40	BATE
16:26:14	772	144.40	XLON
16:26:14	26	144.40	TRQX
16:26:14	160	144.40	TRQX
16:26:14	115	144.50	BATE
16:26:44	317	144.70	TRQX
16:26:44	370	144.70	TRQX
16:26:44	440	144.80	BATE
16:26:44	198	144.80	BATE
16:29:36	15	144.90	XLON
16:29:36	678	144.90	CHIX
16:29:37	225	145.10	TRQX
16:29:37	252	145.10	TRQX
16:29:37	2,015	145.00	CHIX
16:29:37	371	145.00	CHIX
16:29:44	1,211	144.70	TRQX
16:29:44	154	144.70	XLON
16:35:29	5,995	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	6,496	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	4,251	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	9,615	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	11,449	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	5,101	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	4,807	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	3083	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	5,099	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	901	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	10,802	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	4,502	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	4,964	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	22,821	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	1,095	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	10361	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	9,547	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	5,236	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	4,362	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	7537	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	12,747	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	2507	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	990	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	7144	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	13,140	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	21,614	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	5,816	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	24,513	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	11,560	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	3179	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	2,152	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	5582	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	11,027	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	644	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	16,216	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	21,829	145.40	XLON
16:35:29	13,588	145.40	XLON

 

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