Transaction in Own Shares

S4 Capital PLC
07 March 2024
 

7 March 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 6 March 2024 it purchased 255,947 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:

6 March 2024

Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:

255,947

Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.3820

Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.3876

Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):

0.3832

 

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,491,444 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 5,539,653 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 577,951,791. 

 

The above figure of 577,951,791 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



 5,269

 0.3826

08:23:57

00038358766TRLO0

XLON


 1,973

 0.3826

08:23:57

00038358765TRLO0

XLON


 1,409

 0.3824

09:30:39

00038360942TRLO0

XLON


 203

 0.3824

10:05:04

00038362231TRLO0

XLON


 1,411

 0.3824

10:05:59

00038362258TRLO0

XLON


 7,928

 0.3824

10:05:59

00038362257TRLO0

XLON


 2,545

 0.3824

10:05:59

00038362256TRLO0

XLON


 4,133

 0.3824

10:05:59

00038362255TRLO0

XLON


 5,683

 0.3856

10:18:25

00038362733TRLO0

XLON


 1,867

 0.3856

10:18:25

00038362732TRLO0

XLON


 13,637

 0.3856

10:18:25

00038362731TRLO0

XLON


 9,431

 0.3820

10:41:04

00038363286TRLO0

XLON


 12

 0.3820

10:41:09

00038363289TRLO0

XLON


 4,843

 0.3820

10:41:11

00038363291TRLO0

XLON


 2,991

 0.3820

10:41:11

00038363290TRLO0

XLON


 75

 0.3840

12:24:47

00038367050TRLO0

XLON


 15

 0.3840

12:24:49

00038367051TRLO0

XLON


 71

 0.3866

12:38:56

00038367344TRLO0

XLON


 100

 0.3866

12:45:29

00038367620TRLO0

XLON


 131

 0.3866

12:52:00

00038367847TRLO0

XLON


 356

 0.3866

12:59:36

00038368042TRLO0

XLON


 217

 0.3866

13:04:58

00038368408TRLO0

XLON


 272

 0.3866

13:17:09

00038368942TRLO0

XLON


 316

 0.3866

13:28:52

00038369425TRLO0

XLON


 3,736

 0.3874

13:45:03

00038370254TRLO0

XLON


 3,032

 0.3874

13:46:02

00038370267TRLO0

XLON


 368

 0.3874

13:49:26

00038370357TRLO0

XLON


 452

 0.3874

14:04:17

00038370843TRLO0

XLON


 3,323

 0.3874

14:06:57

00038370947TRLO0

XLON


 3,673

 0.3874

14:06:57

00038370946TRLO0

XLON


 266

 0.3876

14:13:51

00038371225TRLO0

XLON


 389

 0.3876

14:26:12

00038371832TRLO0

XLON


 1,360

 0.3876

14:47:36

00038373482TRLO0

XLON


 10,633

 0.3876

14:48:29

00038373525TRLO0

XLON


 622

 0.3824

15:16:06

00038375484TRLO0

XLON


 4,863

 0.3824

15:27:49

00038376192TRLO0

XLON


 1,466

 0.3824

16:26:52

00038380494TRLO0

XLON


 47

 0.3824

16:28:18

00038380611TRLO0

XLON


 747

 0.3824

16:28:18

00038380610TRLO0

XLON


 300

 0.3824

16:29:56

00038380771TRLO0

XLON


 489

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381062TRLO0

XLON


 200

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381061TRLO0

XLON


 1,332

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381060TRLO0

XLON


 4,308

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381059TRLO0

XLON


 9,095

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381058TRLO0

XLON


 4,747

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381057TRLO0

XLON


 616

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381056TRLO0

XLON


 574

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381055TRLO0

XLON


 796

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381054TRLO0

XLON


 5,308

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381053TRLO0

XLON


 4,495

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381052TRLO0

XLON


 7,681

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381051TRLO0

XLON


 567

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381050TRLO0

XLON


 2,738

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381049TRLO0

XLON


 17,007

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381048TRLO0

XLON


 4,925

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381047TRLO0

XLON


 8,831

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381046TRLO0

XLON


 8,662

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381045TRLO0

XLON


 1,436

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381044TRLO0

XLON


 2,851

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381043TRLO0

XLON


 12

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381042TRLO0

XLON


 2,653

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381041TRLO0

XLON


 9,129

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381040TRLO0

XLON


 17,333

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381039TRLO0

XLON


 6,371

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381038TRLO0

XLON


 4,889

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381037TRLO0

XLON


 28,737

 0.3824

16:35:18

00038381036TRLO0

XLON


 

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

 

Enquiries:

S4Capital

Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003

Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)


Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital)

Tel: +44 (0) 7970 246 725

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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