Transaction in Own Shares

Standard Chartered PLC
21 August 2023
 

 

STANDARD CHARTERED PLC

 

21 August 2023

 

Transaction in own shares

 

Standard Chartered PLC ("SC") announces that today it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each from Goldman Sachs International, pursuant to the share buy-back programmes previously detailed in the announcements of 17 February and 31 July 2023.




 

As of close of business London time on the trading day preceding the date of this announcement, SC had applied an aggregate of US$888,941,582.42 to share purchases pursuant to the share buy-back programme announced on 17 February 2023.




 

Purchases pursuant to the share buy-back programme announced 31 July 2023

 

Ordinary shares:

 


Date of purchase:

21 August 2023

 

 

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

1,650,973

 

 

Lowest price paid per share:

717.00 pence

 

 

Highest price paid per share:

727.40 pence

 

 

Average price paid per share:

721.54 pence



 

 

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased today according to each trading venue:



Venue

Weighted average price paid per share (GB pence)

Aggregate number of shares purchased

Lowest price paid per share (GB pence)

Highest price paid per share (GB pence)

London Stock Exchange

721.78

859,000

717.20

727.40

CBOE BXE

720.89

455,973

717.00

726.80

CBOE CXE

721.81

336,000

717.20

727.20






 

As of close of business London time on the trading day preceding the date of this announcement, SC had applied an aggregate of US$96,097,035.74 to share purchases pursuant to the share buy-back programme announced on 31 July 2023.




 

 

SC intends to cancel the purchased shares.

 

 

Following the cancellation of the purchased shares, SC will have 2,778,265,150 ordinary shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in SC will be 694,566,287.

 

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.



http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9865J_1-2023-8-21.pdf



This announcement will also be available on SC's website at: https://www.sc.com/en/investors/stock-exchange-announcements/

 

Enquiries to:

 

Gregg J Powell, Head of Investor Relations                       +44 (0) 20 7885 5172

 

Shaun Gamble, Director, Group Media Relations:            +44 (0) 20 7885 5934



 

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