Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC

14 February 2024

 

14 February 2024

S4 Capital plc

("S4Capital" or the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

In accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 26 January 2024, the Company announces that on 13 February 2024 it purchased 219,007 ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in the market through Dowgate Capital Limited. The Company intends that the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

Date of purchase:	13 February 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	219,007
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3784
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4030
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.3896

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,064,256 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 1,835,513 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 581,228,743. 

The above figure of 581,228,743 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 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 in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme.

Shares purchased: S4 Capital plc (ISIN: GB00BFZZM640)

Individual transactions:

Number of Ordinary Shares purchased	Transaction price (GBP)	Time of transaction (UK Time)	Transaction reference number	Trading venue
5,263	0.4012	08:23:17	00037960103TRLO0	XLON
5,074	0.4012	08:23:17	00037960100TRLO0	XLON
2,765	0.3986	08:23:17	00037960102TRLO0	XLON
3,170	0.3986	08:23:17	00037960101TRLO0	XLON
5,540	0.3954	08:32:56	00037960357TRLO0	XLON
5,387	0.3928	08:33:06	00037960361TRLO0	XLON
5,819	0.3900	08:39:55	00037960657TRLO0	XLON
5,810	0.3900	08:39:55	00037960656TRLO0	XLON
3,574	0.3880	08:48:43	00037960865TRLO0	XLON
940	0.3880	08:48:43	00037960864TRLO0	XLON
1,100	0.3880	08:48:43	00037960863TRLO0	XLON
574	0.3824	08:54:21	00037960962TRLO0	XLON
5,453	0.3824	08:54:50	00037960967TRLO0	XLON
6,163	0.3820	08:54:54	00037960968TRLO0	XLON
4,705	0.3806	08:54:54	00037960971TRLO0	XLON
2,400	0.3806	08:54:54	00037960970TRLO0	XLON
198	0.3806	08:54:54	00037960969TRLO0	XLON
5,791	0.3784	08:54:57	00037960975TRLO0	XLON
694	0.3988	09:14:37	00037961556TRLO0	XLON
1,568	0.3988	09:14:38	00037961558TRLO0	XLON
2,886	0.3988	09:14:38	00037961557TRLO0	XLON
435	0.3954	09:14:48	00037961566TRLO0	XLON
17,714	0.3956	09:21:02	00037961669TRLO0	XLON
5,333	0.3956	09:21:02	00037961668TRLO0	XLON
2,525	0.3960	09:39:26	00037962233TRLO0	XLON
2,754	0.3960	09:39:26	00037962232TRLO0	XLON
3,817	0.3960	09:39:26	00037962231TRLO0	XLON
49	0.3996	10:08:43	00037963175TRLO0	XLON
415	0.3996	10:08:43	00037963174TRLO0	XLON
762	0.3996	10:08:43	00037963173TRLO0	XLON
4,430	0.3996	10:08:43	00037963172TRLO0	XLON
1,448	0.4030	10:52:36	00037964984TRLO0	XLON
3,707	0.4030	10:52:36	00037964983TRLO0	XLON
3	0.4030	10:52:36	00037964982TRLO0	XLON
195	0.4030	10:52:36	00037964981TRLO0	XLON
6,248	0.4006	11:03:39	00037965480TRLO0	XLON
3,322	0.4006	11:03:39	00037965479TRLO0	XLON
23	0.3948	11:38:48	00037966600TRLO0	XLON
567	0.3948	11:38:48	00037966599TRLO0	XLON
4,552	0.3948	11:38:48	00037966598TRLO0	XLON
1,313	0.3948	11:38:48	00037966597TRLO0	XLON
847	0.3948	11:38:50	00037966601TRLO0	XLON
2,586	0.3948	11:39:02	00037966604TRLO0	XLON
243	0.3948	11:39:07	00037966612TRLO0	XLON
981	0.3948	11:39:07	00037966611TRLO0	XLON
3,158	0.3922	11:39:09	00037966614TRLO0	XLON
2,319	0.3922	11:39:09	00037966613TRLO0	XLON
741	0.3882	11:58:41	00037967170TRLO0	XLON
2,689	0.3882	12:00:15	00037967198TRLO0	XLON
2,390	0.3882	12:17:14	00037967714TRLO0	XLON
4,109	0.3862	12:32:24	00037968345TRLO0	XLON
724	0.3862	12:39:36	00037968657TRLO0	XLON
239	0.3862	13:27:46	00037970042TRLO0	XLON
531	0.3862	13:30:35	00037970169TRLO0	XLON
320	0.3830	13:45:17	00037970824TRLO0	XLON
4,814	0.3830	13:58:41	00037971302TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3830	13:58:41	00037971301TRLO0	XLON
5,277	0.3830	14:09:56	00037971736TRLO0	XLON
2,209	0.3800	14:49:31	00037974576TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3800	14:49:31	00037974575TRLO0	XLON
1,777	0.3800	14:49:31	00037974574TRLO0	XLON
2,311	0.3800	14:49:31	00037974573TRLO0	XLON
5,134	0.3800	14:49:31	00037974572TRLO0	XLON
4,980	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975344TRLO0	XLON
893	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975343TRLO0	XLON
1,435	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975342TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975341TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975340TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3784	15:01:01	00037975339TRLO0	XLON
6,177	0.3784	15:01:05	00037975356TRLO0	XLON
6,182	0.3832	16:27:57	00037982931TRLO0	XLON
3,425	0.3832	16:27:57	00037982930TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.3832	16:27:57	00037982929TRLO0	XLON
7,200	0.3832	16:27:57	00037982928TRLO0	XLON
3,630	0.3832	16:27:57	00037982927TRLO0	XLON

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

Enquiries:

S4Capital	Tel: [phone]
Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)
Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital)	Tel: [phone]
Elly Williamson
Pete Lambie

About S4 Capital

S⁴ Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&Digital Media and Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure. Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Christopher S. Martin, Scott Spirit and Mary Basterfield all joined the S4 Capital Board as Executive Directors. The S4 Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young and Colin Day.

The Company now has approximately 7,700 people in 32 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 25% and Technology Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of 50%:25%:25%.

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

 

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