Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC

22 February 2024

 

22 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 21 February 2024 it purchased 273,527 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:	21 February 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	273,527
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4066
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4224
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4135

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 3,007,731 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 580,056,525. 

The above figure of 580,056,525 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
1,079	0.4140	09:01:56	00038096760TRLO0	XLON
16,054	0.4140	09:01:56	00038096759TRLO0	XLON
1	0.4108	09:26:30	00038097568TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.4108	09:26:30	00038097567TRLO0	XLON
1,314	0.4108	09:26:30	00038097566TRLO0	XLON
83	0.4108	09:26:39	00038097569TRLO0	XLON
1,609	0.4130	09:27:36	00038097584TRLO0	XLON
4,368	0.4130	09:27:36	00038097583TRLO0	XLON
3,488	0.4110	09:27:36	00038097582TRLO0	XLON
3,597	0.4110	09:27:36	00038097581TRLO0	XLON
3,315	0.4066	10:30:28	00038099595TRLO0	XLON
1,161	0.4066	10:33:36	00038099676TRLO0	XLON
1,969	0.4066	10:37:42	00038099771TRLO0	XLON
3,466	0.4066	10:47:28	00038100047TRLO0	XLON
1,932	0.4066	10:47:28	00038100046TRLO0	XLON
3,109	0.4100	11:08:29	00038100539TRLO0	XLON
3,334	0.4100	11:08:29	00038100538TRLO0	XLON
6,292	0.4140	11:21:33	00038101265TRLO0	XLON
2,126	0.4140	11:40:38	00038101782TRLO0	XLON
4,259	0.4140	11:40:38	00038101781TRLO0	XLON
5,543	0.4112	11:56:53	00038102264TRLO0	XLON
1,492	0.4110	11:56:53	00038102263TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.4110	11:56:53	00038102262TRLO0	XLON
3,600	0.4110	11:56:53	00038102261TRLO0	XLON
676	0.4114	12:59:55	00038104124TRLO0	XLON
3,228	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104376TRLO0	XLON
3,226	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104375TRLO0	XLON
590	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104374TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104373TRLO0	XLON
1,200	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104372TRLO0	XLON
2,974	0.4114	13:13:29	00038104371TRLO0	XLON
592	0.4088	14:59:55	00038108208TRLO0	XLON
3,216	0.4088	15:06:45	00038108560TRLO0	XLON
1,811	0.4088	15:06:45	00038108559TRLO0	XLON
6,681	0.4112	16:15:02	00038112589TRLO0	XLON
12,771	0.4100	16:15:02	00038112594TRLO0	XLON
4,906	0.4100	16:15:02	00038112593TRLO0	XLON
1,112	0.4100	16:15:02	00038112592TRLO0	XLON
4,906	0.4100	16:15:02	00038112591TRLO0	XLON
5,882	0.4100	16:15:02	00038112590TRLO0	XLON
5,972	0.4110	16:23:02	00038113319TRLO0	XLON
1,715	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113329TRLO0	XLON
4,381	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113328TRLO0	XLON
1,067	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113327TRLO0	XLON
4,381	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113326TRLO0	XLON
8,247	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113325TRLO0	XLON
81	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113324TRLO0	XLON
8,274	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113323TRLO0	XLON
4,381	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113322TRLO0	XLON
17,516	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113321TRLO0	XLON
4,381	0.4100	16:23:02	00038113320TRLO0	XLON
572	0.4100	16:29:14	00038114070TRLO0	XLON
5,001	0.4100	16:29:14	00038114069TRLO0	XLON
4,335	0.4100	16:29:23	00038114099TRLO0	XLON
1,223	0.4100	16:29:23	00038114098TRLO0	XLON
1,949	0.4100	16:29:35	00038114144TRLO0	XLON
4,273	0.4100	16:29:35	00038114143TRLO0	XLON
2,859	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114420TRLO0	XLON
2,082	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114419TRLO0	XLON
11,136	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114418TRLO0	XLON
23,324	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114417TRLO0	XLON
770	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114416TRLO0	XLON
7,928	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114415TRLO0	XLON
923	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114414TRLO0	XLON
882	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114413TRLO0	XLON
7,388	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114412TRLO0	XLON
7,924	0.4224	16:35:13	00038114411TRLO0	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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