Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4745B
Ashtead Group PLC
16 June 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:                                                            16 June 2016

               

Number of Shares purchased:                                   100,000 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                                     970.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                                      950.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                                    960.5293 pence

               

               

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.              

               

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds 50,081,592 Shares in Treasury.    

               

The Company has 503,243,962 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.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Ashtead Group plc

 

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

 

 

 


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