Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2073S

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

08 March 2023

 

08 March 2023

London Stock Exchange Group PLC ("LSEG")

TRANSACTIONS IN OWN SECURITIES

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) announces that it has purchased the following number of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc (Morgan Stanley) as part of the second tranche of its share buyback programme, as announced on 7 October 2022:

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	07 March 2023
Number of voting ordinary shares purchased:	1,880
Highest price paid per share:	7,550.00p
Lowest price paid per share:	7,438.00p
Volume weighted average price per share:	7,512.32p

LSEG intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transactions, LSEG holds 4,304,809 of its voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in treasury and has 502,814,838 voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue (excluding treasury shares). LSEG also has 51,124,377 limited-voting ordinary shares of 6^79/86 pence each in issue, which carry one-tenth of a vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 507,927,276. This figure for the total number of voting rights 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 Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as such legislation forms part of retained EU law as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by the Morgan Stanley on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is included below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

For further information, please contact:

London Stock Exchange Group plc
Lucie Holloway, Rhiannon Davies (Media)	[phone] [e-mail]
Peregrine Riviere (Investors)

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:  1,880 (ISIN: GB00B0SWJX34 ) 

Date of purchases:  07 March 2023

Investment firm:  Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price	Aggregated volume	Lowest price per share	Highest price per share
XLON	7,503.86p	639	7,438.00p	7,550.00p
TRQX	7,521.21p	608	7,442.00p	7,550.00p
BATF	7,512.32p	633	7,512.32p	7,512.32p

Detailed Information¹:

Transaction Date	Time (GMT)	Volume	Price (GBp)	Trading Venue	Transaction Reference Number
07/03/2023	08:02:56	40	7522.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwJ5a
07/03/2023	08:02:56	87	7522.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwJ5e
07/03/2023	08:02:56	133	7524.00	XLON	E0Di10P1vvzw
07/03/2023	08:02:56	131	7526.00	XLON	E0Di10P1vvzj
07/03/2023	08:06:38	88	7514.00	XLON	E0Di10P1w4O7
07/03/2023	08:09:50	31	7512.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwwtc
07/03/2023	08:09:50	10	7512.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwwtf
07/03/2023	08:09:50	26	7512.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwwti
07/03/2023	08:09:50	31	7512.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHwwtl
07/03/2023	08:18:27	90	7534.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHxln5
07/03/2023	08:18:27	80	7534.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHxln7
07/03/2023	08:22:57	63	7532.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHyB37
07/03/2023	08:25:11	23	7550.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHyNI3
07/03/2023	08:25:11	68	7550.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxHyNI5
07/03/2023	08:36:59	89	7550.00	XLON	E0Di10P1wwz2
07/03/2023	15:16:12	112	7460.00	XLON	E0Di10P23bq2
07/03/2023	15:52:22	8	7438.00	XLON	E0Di10P24swC
07/03/2023	15:52:22	78	7438.00	XLON	E0Di10P24swE
07/03/2023	16:22:50	59	7442.00	TRQX	E0DhzHxIY4Sk
07/03/2023	16:36:46	633	7512.32	BATF	1qktH5YwT6WJ77qL80h_fwA

¹ The transaction shown in the last row of the table are purchases made from York Holdings II pursuant to certain arrangements entered into between Morgan Stanley and York Holdings II, as detailed in the announcement of 7 October 2022.

 

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