Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8638G
Ashtead Group PLC
10 August 2016
 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

Ashtead Group plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 2 September 2015, the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme initially announced on 14 June 2016:

 

Date of purchase:                                            10 August 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   34,100 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1200.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1196.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1199.2601 pence

               

               

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.              

               

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds  51,986,089 Shares in Treasury.   

               

The Company has 501,339,465 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury). 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:

 

Ashtead Group plc

 

Will Shaw, Director of Investor Relations, +44 (0)20 7726 9700

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Purchases

 

Shares purchased:           Ashtead Group PLC (ISIN CODE: GB000536739)

Date of purchases:          10 August 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1199.5448

2,469

Chi-X Europe

1199.3371

7,448

Turquoise

1198.8686

4,671

London Stock Exchange

1199.2883

19,512

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

252

12.00

08:17:32

London Stock Exchange

575

12.00

08:17:32

London Stock Exchange

226

12.00

08:17:32

London Stock Exchange

91

12.00

08:17:33

Turquoise

290

11.99

08:19:01

London Stock Exchange

479

11.96

08:19:46

London Stock Exchange

29

11.96

08:19:46

London Stock Exchange

33

11.96

08:19:46

Turquoise

129

11.96

08:19:46

Turquoise

577

11.96

08:19:46

Turquoise

421

12.00

08:42:35

Chi-X Europe

289

12.00

08:42:35

London Stock Exchange

55

12.00

08:42:35

Chi-X Europe

467

12.00

08:42:35

Chi-X Europe

645

12.00

08:42:35

London Stock Exchange

162

12.00

08:42:35

London Stock Exchange

130

12.00

08:42:36

Chi-X Europe

92

12.00

09:13:57

London Stock Exchange

478

12.00

09:13:57

London Stock Exchange

204

11.99

09:23:35

London Stock Exchange

374

11.99

09:23:35

London Stock Exchange

321

11.99

09:23:35

Chi-X Europe

357

11.99

09:23:35

London Stock Exchange

511

11.99

09:23:35

Turquoise

296

11.98

09:23:37

Chi-X Europe

336

11.98

09:23:37

London Stock Exchange

428

11.98

09:23:37

London Stock Exchange

335

11.98

09:23:37

London Stock Exchange

207

11.99

09:33:12

London Stock Exchange

319

11.99

09:33:12

London Stock Exchange

1024

11.99

09:33:12

London Stock Exchange

368

11.98

09:35:45

London Stock Exchange

537

11.98

09:35:45

London Stock Exchange

324

11.98

09:35:45

London Stock Exchange

106

11.98

09:35:45

London Stock Exchange

460

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

309

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

314

12.00

11:01:10

Chi-X Europe

309

12.00

11:01:10

Chi-X Europe

349

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

415

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

329

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

155

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

331

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

349

12.00

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

421

12.00

11:01:10

Turquoise

116

11.99

11:01:10

Chi-X Europe

413

11.99

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

339

11.99

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

203

11.99

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

78

11.99

11:01:10

London Stock Exchange

449

11.99

11:01:12

Chi-X Europe

184

11.99

11:01:12

London Stock Exchange

383

12.00

11:16:07

London Stock Exchange

365

12.00

11:16:07

Chi-X Europe

340

12.00

11:16:07

London Stock Exchange

62

12.00

11:16:28

London Stock Exchange

274

12.00

11:16:28

London Stock Exchange

267

12.00

11:16:28

London Stock Exchange

318

12.00

11:26:11

London Stock Exchange

491

12.00

11:41:49

London Stock Exchange

457

12.00

11:47:40

Chi-X Europe

717

12.00

11:47:40

London Stock Exchange

96

12.00

11:47:40

London Stock Exchange

498

11.99

11:54:20

London Stock Exchange

117

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

260

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

393

11.99

11:54:20

London Stock Exchange

356

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

24

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

162

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

214

11.99

11:54:20

Chi-X Europe

342

11.99

11:59:36

London Stock Exchange

338

11.99

11:59:36

Chi-X Europe

589

11.99

11:59:36

Chi-X Europe

367

11.99

11:59:36

Turquoise

171

11.99

11:59:36

Turquoise

929

11.99

11:59:36

London Stock Exchange

50

11.99

11:59:36

London Stock Exchange

316

12.00

12:13:46

London Stock Exchange

292

12.00

12:16:46

London Stock Exchange

202

12.00

12:22:54

London Stock Exchange

121

12.00

12:22:54

London Stock Exchange

289

12.00

12:25:44

London Stock Exchange

355

12.00

12:36:03

Turquoise

289

12.00

12:40:24

Chi-X Europe

280

12.00

12:41:59

Turquoise

167

12.00

12:42:01

Turquoise

226

12.00

12:43:04

Turquoise

63

12.00

12:43:42

Turquoise

250

12.00

12:45:59

BATS Europe

63

12.00

12:45:59

BATS Europe

165

12.00

12:46:27

BATS Europe

143

12.00

12:46:27

BATS Europe

74

12.00

12:46:27

BATS Europe

570

11.99

12:50:56

Chi-X Europe

393

11.99

12:50:56

Turquoise

462

11.99

12:50:56

Chi-X Europe

257

11.99

12:50:56

London Stock Exchange

367

11.99

12:50:56

Chi-X Europe

525

11.99

12:50:56

London Stock Exchange

506

11.99

12:50:56

Turquoise

381

11.99

12:50:56

Turquoise

323

11.99

12:52:23

BATS Europe

200

11.99

12:52:23

BATS Europe

64

11.99

13:06:09

BATS Europe

312

11.99

13:06:09

BATS Europe

225

11.99

13:09:19

BATS Europe

249

12.00

13:21:47

BATS Europe

72

12.00

13:22:59

BATS Europe

329

12.00

13:22:59

BATS Europe

 


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