Transaction in Own Shares

HSBC Holdings PLC
08 September 2023
 

HSBC HOLDINGS PLC

8 September 2023

Transaction in own shares

HSBC Holdings plc ("HSBC" or the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 from Merrill Lynch International ("Merrill Lynch") as part of its buy-back announced on 2 August 2023.

UK Venues

Date of purchase:

8 September 2023

Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased:

1,853,006

Highest price paid per share:

£5.8450

Lowest price paid per share:

£5.7690

Volume weighted average price paid per share:

£5.8087

 

All repurchases on the London Stock Exchange, Cboe Europe Limited (through the BXE and CXE order books) and/or Turquoise ("UK Venues") are implemented as "on Exchange" transactions (as such term is defined in the rules of the London Stock Exchange) and as "market purchases" for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006.

There were no repurchases on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Since the commencement of the buy-back announced on 2 August 2023, the Company has repurchased 116,224,142 ordinary shares for a total consideration of approximately US$891.3m.

Following the cancellation of the shares repurchased on the UK Venues, the Company will have 19,945,467,431 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each which are held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 19,620,194,024.

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, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority'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 of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Merrill Lynch on behalf of the Company is available via the link below.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9246L_1-2023-9-8.pdf

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

Enquiries to:

Lee Davis
Corporate Governance & Secretariat

+44 (0) 207 991 3048

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