Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9280P
HSBC Holdings PLC
31 May 2018
 

 

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

31 May 2018

Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc (the Company) announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (Credit Suisse) as part of its buyback announced on 9 May 2018.

 

 

Date of purchase:

31 May 2018

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

3,852,436

Highest price paid per share:

£7.2890

Lowest price paid per share:

£7.1860

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£7.2424

 

 

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,374,964,039 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Therefore the total voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc will be 20,049,690,632. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders 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, HSBC Holdings plc under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.

 

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9280P_-2018-5-31.pdf

 

This announcement will also be available on HSBC's website at www.hsbc.com/sea

 

Enquiries to:

JJ Williams

Shareholder Services
+ 44 (0) 203 268 3568

 


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