Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC

29 February 2024

 

29 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 28 February 2024 it purchased 252,962 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:	28 February 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	252,962
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4008
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4300
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):	0.4125

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 4,083,899 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 578,980,357. 

The above figure of 578,980,357 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
1,284	0.4248	08:09:34	00038211768TRLO0	XLON
6,966	0.4180	08:49:59	00038213505TRLO0	XLON
9,321	0.4300	09:30:09	00038214998TRLO0	XLON
6,826	0.4300	09:33:19	00038215165TRLO0	XLON
7,040	0.4282	09:55:54	00038215752TRLO0	XLON
6,733	0.4250	09:58:48	00038215804TRLO0	XLON
3,152	0.4170	10:39:28	00038216908TRLO0	XLON
2,756	0.4170	10:39:28	00038216909TRLO0	XLON
1,457	0.4170	10:39:28	00038216910TRLO0	XLON
8,468	0.4202	12:11:45	00038219706TRLO0	XLON
935	0.4202	12:14:05	00038219767TRLO0	XLON
1,100	0.4202	12:14:05	00038219768TRLO0	XLON
2,200	0.4202	12:14:05	00038219769TRLO0	XLON
2,423	0.4202	12:14:05	00038219770TRLO0	XLON
6,686	0.4152	12:55:20	00038221214TRLO0	XLON
7,160	0.4154	13:16:02	00038222070TRLO0	XLON
8,041	0.4112	13:23:36	00038222348TRLO0	XLON
3,380	0.4090	14:25:04	00038224020TRLO0	XLON
4,151	0.4090	14:25:04	00038224021TRLO0	XLON
653	0.4084	14:30:29	00038224570TRLO0	XLON
942	0.4084	14:30:29	00038224571TRLO0	XLON
942	0.4084	14:30:29	00038224572TRLO0	XLON
942	0.4084	14:30:29	00038224573TRLO0	XLON
3,892	0.4084	14:30:29	00038224574TRLO0	XLON
7,404	0.4072	14:55:13	00038225998TRLO0	XLON
7,130	0.4008	14:58:04	00038226104TRLO0	XLON
847	0.4008	15:12:39	00038227325TRLO0	XLON
9,121	0.4078	16:25:39	00038232076TRLO0	XLON
6,455	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233099TRLO0	XLON
4,151	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233100TRLO0	XLON
3,450	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233101TRLO0	XLON
590	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233102TRLO0	XLON
48	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233103TRLO0	XLON
3,750	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233104TRLO0	XLON
1,270	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233105TRLO0	XLON
6,638	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233106TRLO0	XLON
8,159	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233107TRLO0	XLON
28	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233108TRLO0	XLON
4,761	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233109TRLO0	XLON
7,910	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233110TRLO0	XLON
2,705	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233111TRLO0	XLON
98	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233112TRLO0	XLON
3,923	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233113TRLO0	XLON
1,464	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233114TRLO0	XLON
3,462	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233115TRLO0	XLON
11,613	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233116TRLO0	XLON
4,573	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233117TRLO0	XLON
6,396	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233118TRLO0	XLON
815	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233119TRLO0	XLON
6,570	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233120TRLO0	XLON
8,708	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233121TRLO0	XLON
153	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233122TRLO0	XLON
27,077	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233123TRLO0	XLON
6,243	0.4088	16:35:18	00038233124TRLO0	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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