Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9890G

Ashtead Group PLC

11 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:                                            11 August 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   17,727 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1200.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1189.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1195.3306 pence

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.              

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds  52,003,816 Shares in Treasury.   

The Company has  501,321,738 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, [phone]

Schedule of Purchases

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

Date of purchases:          11 August 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1196.0000	289
Chi-X Europe	1199.4570	1,650
Turquoise	1193.3750	10,252
London Stock Exchange	1197.6873	5,536

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
11	12.00	08:00:26	London Stock Exchange
135	12.00	08:00:40	London Stock Exchange
991	11.91	08:05:46	Turquoise
289	11.95	08:11:18	London Stock Exchange
297	11.95	08:12:49	London Stock Exchange
769	11.94	08:13:11	Turquoise
329	11.94	08:13:11	Turquoise
1002	11.93	08:14:07	Turquoise
289	11.93	08:14:07	Turquoise
289	11.93	08:14:07	Turquoise
100	11.92	08:14:34	Turquoise
100	11.92	08:14:34	Turquoise
120	11.92	08:14:34	Turquoise
289	11.92	08:14:34	Turquoise
509	11.89	08:20:30	Turquoise
289	11.89	08:21:03	Turquoise
437	11.90	08:29:34	Turquoise
313	11.90	08:29:34	London Stock Exchange
332	11.90	08:29:34	Turquoise
415	11.90	08:29:34	Turquoise
168	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
59	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
352	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
221	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
200	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
144	11.92	08:32:19	Turquoise
270	11.92	08:32:19	London Stock Exchange
292	11.92	08:32:55	Turquoise
100	11.94	08:42:58	Turquoise
189	11.94	08:42:58	Turquoise
106	11.96	08:46:12	BATS Europe
183	11.96	08:46:12	BATS Europe
113	11.96	08:48:49	Turquoise
176	11.96	08:48:49	Turquoise
313	11.96	08:48:49	London Stock Exchange
326	11.98	08:50:37	London Stock Exchange
351	11.98	08:52:16	London Stock Exchange
800	11.98	08:55:56	London Stock Exchange
200	11.98	08:55:56	Turquoise
237	12.00	09:29:49	Chi-X Europe
206	12.00	09:29:49	Turquoise
777	12.00	09:30:00	London Stock Exchange
312	12.00	09:30:00	London Stock Exchange
162	12.00	09:30:00	Chi-X Europe
47	12.00	09:30:00	Turquoise
500	12.00	09:30:00	London Stock Exchange
93	12.00	09:30:00	Turquoise
249	11.99	09:37:16	Turquoise
341	11.99	09:37:16	London Stock Exchange
119	11.99	09:37:16	Turquoise
465	12.00	09:44:17	London Stock Exchange
347	12.00	09:44:17	Turquoise
355	12.00	09:44:17	Chi-X Europe
318	11.99	09:45:02	Chi-X Europe
717	11.99	09:56:10	Turquoise
578	11.99	09:56:10	Chi-X Europe
36	11.99	09:56:10	London Stock Exchange

 

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