Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9198B
Ashtead Group PLC
25 September 2018
 

 

Transaction in own shares

Ashtead Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 25 September 2018 it purchased for Treasury the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 pence each pursuant to its £1 billion share repurchase programme, details of which were announced on 14 December 2017.

Description of shares: Ashtead Group plc - ordinary shares of 10 pence

Number of shares repurchased: 80,000 shares

Date of transaction: 25 September 2018

Average price paid per share: 2,344.6800 pence

Lowest price paid per share: 2,344.000 pence

Highest price paid per share: 2,363.0000 pence

Broker: Jefferies International Limited

Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 484,408,055 (excluding Treasury shares), and the company will hold 14,817,657 ordinary shares in Treasury.

The figure of 484,408,055 may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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, the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is available below:

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Ashtead Group plc

 

Transaction date

Transaction Time

Volume

Price (GBp)

Platform

Transaction Reference Number

25/09/2018

16:20:02

177

2362

XLON

00164170900TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:20:02

58

2362

XLON

00164170901TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:20:54

277

2363

XLON

00164171242TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:20:54

115

2363

XLON

00164171243TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:20:54

95

2363

XLON

00164171244TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:21:23

136

2363

XLON

00164171419TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:21:49

284

2363

XLON

00164171528TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:21:49

122

2363

XLON

00164171529TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:21:52

438

2363

XLON

00164171536TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:22:55

497

2363

XLON

00164171892TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:22:55

3

2363

XLON

00164171893TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:00

68

2363

XLON

00164171901TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:00

66

2363

XLON

00164171902TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:06

100

2363

XLON

00164171918TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:06

323

2363

XLON

00164171919TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:06

102

2363

XLON

00164171920TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:23:06

15

2363

XLON

00164171921TRLO0.1.1

25/09/2018

16:35:10

77124

2344

XLON

00164175331TRLO0.1.1

 


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