Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2371W

Barclays PLC

17 August 2022

 

17 August 2022

Barclays PLC
Transaction in own shares, completion of FY 2021 buy-back and commencement of HY 2022 buy-back

Completion of FY 2021 buy-back

Barclays PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each ("ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange from J.P. Morgan Securities plc as part of its buy-back announced on 24 May 2022:

Date of purchase:	16 August 2022
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	2,884,756
Highest price paid per share:	172.1400 p
Lowest price paid per share:	170.3400 p
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	171.5124 p

The Company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares.

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital consists of 16,154,234,680 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in treasury.

The above figure ( 16,154,234,680 ) may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended, a full breakdown of the individual purchases of ordinary shares made by J.P. Morgan Securities plc on behalf of the Company can be found at:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/2371W_1-2022-8-16.pdf

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these ordinary shares, the share buy-back programme announced on 24 May 2022 has completed. Since the commencement of such buy-back, the Company has repurchased for cancellation 625,019,884 ordinary shares at a volume weighted average price of 159.9949 p per ordinary share for a total consideration of approximately £1,000 million.

Commencement of HY 2022 buy-back

The Company announces that, further to the completion of the share buy-back programme announced on 24 May 2022, the share buy-back programme announced on 29 July 2022 to purchase ordinary shares for up to a maximum consideration of £500m will commence on 17 August 2022. The maximum number of ordinary shares which may be purchased under such buy-back is 1,051,142,076.

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