Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6053X

Man Group plc

22 February 2017

 

Transaction in own shares

Man Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 22 February 2017 it purchased for cancellation 169,536 of its ordinary shares with a weighted average price of 144.0271 pence per ordinary share pursuant to its $100 million share repurchase programme, details of which were announced on 14 October 2016. The highest price paid per share was 144.3 pence and the lowest price paid per share was 143.6 pence. Details of the relevant repurchase transactions are set out below:    

Description of shares: Man Group plc - ordinary shares 3 3/7 cents

Number of shares repurchased: 169,536

Date of transaction: 22 February 2017

Time of transaction: 08:10 - 16:35

Price: 144.0271p

Broker: Merrill Lynch International

Since the commencement of the share repurchase programme, the Company has repurchased 37,883,174 ordinary shares in aggregate at a weighted average price of 123.5868 pence per share.

Following the cancellation of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 1,671,177,389.

The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

All transactions under this programme will be published on the Company's website (www.man.com) on a weekly basis.

Enquiries:

Andrea Waters
Head of Investor Relations
[phone]
[e-mail]

 

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