Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6486X

National Grid PLC

27 November 2017

 

27 November 2017

National Grid plc ("National Grid")

ISIN Code: GB00BDR05C01

Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 12^204/473p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") as part of its buy-back programme announced on 9 October 2017. The sole purpose of the programme is, as previously announced, to reduce the share capital of National Grid as part of the return of proceeds to shareholders following the sale of a majority interest in National Grid's UK gas distribution business.

Date of purchase:	27 November 2017
Number of Ordinary shares of 12204/473p each purchased:	39,495
Highest price paid per share (pence):	874.2936
Lowest price paid per share (pence):	874.2936
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	874.2936

National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 231,331,656 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,386,238,469 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

A schedule of individual trades carried out by Barclays (BARCGBN1) as principal in connection with the above purchases on 27 November 2017 is set out below.

Schedule of purchases - aggregate information

Trading venue	Volume weighted average price (pence per share)	Aggregated volume
Chi-X Europe	868.8000	11
London Stock Exchange	868.1105	39,484

Schedule of purchases - individual transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction (including time zone)	Trading venue	Transaction reference number
129	866.90	08:00:20	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
99	866.00	08:00:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
59	866.00	08:00:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
119	866.00	08:00:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
360	866.00	08:00:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
321	866.00	08:00:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626376000
750	866.00	08:00:47	London Stock Exchange	606273224074197000
500	865.20	08:01:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074198000
249	865.20	08:01:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074198000
148	865.00	08:01:13	London Stock Exchange	606273224074198000
755	865.50	08:02:06	London Stock Exchange	606273224074198000
747	866.10	08:03:09	London Stock Exchange	592199473626379000
745	865.90	08:03:41	London Stock Exchange	606273224074200000
16	865.90	08:04:47	London Stock Exchange	606273224074200000
371	865.90	08:05:05	London Stock Exchange	606273224074200000
346	865.90	08:05:05	London Stock Exchange	606273224074200000
801	865.60	08:05:34	London Stock Exchange	592199473626381000
356	865.00	08:05:39	London Stock Exchange	606273224074201000
1,408	867.10	08:06:55	London Stock Exchange	606273224074202000
529	866.20	08:07:03	London Stock Exchange	606273224074202000
710	866.80	08:07:33	London Stock Exchange	592199473626382000
9	866.80	08:08:14	London Stock Exchange	592199473626382000
224	866.20	08:08:14	London Stock Exchange	606273224074202000
453	866.20	08:09:31	London Stock Exchange	606273224074203000
342	866.20	08:09:31	London Stock Exchange	606273224074203000
727	865.90	08:09:31	London Stock Exchange	606273224074203000
1,242	867.60	08:10:49	London Stock Exchange	606273224074204000
691	867.40	08:11:24	London Stock Exchange	592199473626385000
143	867.40	08:11:24	London Stock Exchange	592199473626385000
500	867.60	08:12:17	London Stock Exchange	606273224074205000
698	868.40	08:14:51	London Stock Exchange	592199473626388000
699	868.20	08:14:57	London Stock Exchange	606273224074207000
499	868.60	08:15:19	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
686	868.60	08:15:19	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
229	868.50	08:15:19	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
698	868.30	08:16:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
698	868.00	08:16:14	London Stock Exchange	592199473626389000
934	867.90	08:16:16	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
4	867.90	08:16:16	London Stock Exchange	606273224074208000
779	868.30	08:17:35	London Stock Exchange	606273224074209000
698	869.00	08:21:24	London Stock Exchange	592199473626393000
303	869.40	08:22:06	London Stock Exchange	592199473626393000
395	869.40	08:22:06	London Stock Exchange	592199473626393000
569	869.70	08:22:25	London Stock Exchange	592199473626394000
570	869.70	08:22:25	London Stock Exchange	606273224074213000
832	869.70	08:22:40	London Stock Exchange	592199473626394000
385	869.10	08:24:13	London Stock Exchange	592199473626396000
313	869.10	08:24:13	London Stock Exchange	592199473626396000
698	868.90	08:24:43	London Stock Exchange	592199473626396000
698	868.90	08:24:57	London Stock Exchange	606273224074215000
1,009	868.80	08:25:04	London Stock Exchange	592199473626396000
699	868.80	08:25:04	London Stock Exchange	592199473626396000
900	869.50	08:28:06	London Stock Exchange	606273224074217000
87	869.50	08:28:06	London Stock Exchange	606273224074217000
431	869.40	08:28:25	London Stock Exchange	606273224074217000
268	869.40	08:28:25	London Stock Exchange	606273224074217000
698	869.50	08:29:19	London Stock Exchange	606273224074218000
699	869.10	08:29:33	London Stock Exchange	606273224074218000
698	869.00	08:29:33	London Stock Exchange	606273224074218000
698	869.20	08:31:40	London Stock Exchange	606273224074220000
698	869.10	08:32:01	London Stock Exchange	606273224074220000
280	868.90	08:32:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074220000
445	868.90	08:32:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074220000
311	868.90	08:32:07	London Stock Exchange	606273224074220000
387	868.70	08:32:36	London Stock Exchange	606273224074221000
560	868.70	08:32:36	London Stock Exchange	606273224074221000
11	868.80	08:34:52	Chi-X Europe	592199473626404000
1,176	869.40	08:35:22	London Stock Exchange	606273224074222000
181	869.40	08:35:22	London Stock Exchange	592199473626404000
872	870.00	08:37:18	London Stock Exchange	606273224074224000
12	870.00	08:37:18	London Stock Exchange	606273224074224000
698	869.80	08:37:23	London Stock Exchange	606273224074224000
698	869.60	08:39:53	London Stock Exchange	606273224074225000
1,035	870.00	08:41:52	London Stock Exchange	606273224074227000
710	869.70	08:43:08	London Stock Exchange	606273224074228000

This announcement will also be available on National Grid's website at http://investors.nationalgrid.com/rns.aspx. 

Enquiries to:

C James, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3116).

 

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