Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6907K
CRH PLC
23 December 2022
 

23rd December 2022

 

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

 

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 22nd December 2022 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the "ordinary shares") on Euronext Dublin, from CRH's broker BofA Securities Europe SA. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares

 


Euronext Dublin

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 

72,720

Highest price paid per share:

€ 37.8650

Lowest price paid per share:

€ 37.1300

Volume weighted average price paid:

€ 37.3287

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to $300 million* in the period to 30th March 2023 following its announcement on 19th December 2022 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 19th December 2022.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 7,197,213 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 0.957% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 744,943,125 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (including as it forms part of retained EU law in the United Kingdom ('UK') from time to time and, where relevant, pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the UK's Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019) , a detailed breakdown of individual trades made on 22nd December 2022 by BofA Securities Europe SA on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

* Being an amount equal to €282 million (based on a FX rate of $1.00 : €0.94 fixed for the duration of the buyback programme).

Contact:

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

 


 

Issuer Name:

CRH plc

LEI:

549300MIDJNNTH068E74

ISIN:

IE0001827041

Broker name:

BofA Securities Europe SA

Broker code:

BOFAFRP4

Time zone:

GMT/BST

Currency:

EUR

Date of Transactions:

22nd December 2022

 

 

Aggregated Information

 

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

EUR

€ 37.3287

72,720

 

 

Euronext Dublin

 

Number of Shares

Price Per Share (EUR)

Currency

Trade Time

Trading Venue

MatchID

Please refer to annexure

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6907K_1-2022-12-22.pdf






 



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