Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5604N

WH Smith PLC

26 October 2016

 

WH Smith PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

WH Smith PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 27 January 2016, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme initially announced on 24 August 2016:

Date of purchase:                                            26 October 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   15,750 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1513.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1496.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1502.2304 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,927,875 Shares in issue. This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Barclays on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme.

For further information, please contact:

WH Smith PLC

Mark Boyle

Investor Relations

020 7406 6320

Schedule of Purchases

Shares purchased:           WH Smith PLC (ISIN CODE: GB00B2PDGW16)

Date of purchases:          26 October 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1499.7281	331
Chi-X Europe	1502.5391	1,087
Turquoise	1503.7024	2,325
London Stock Exchange	1501.9864	12,007

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
39	15.12	08:12:37	Turquoise
431	15.13	08:15:11	Turquoise
262	15.08	08:23:07	Turquoise
108	15.05	08:36:14	London Stock Exchange
264	15.05	08:36:14	London Stock Exchange
270	15.05	09:03:16	Chi-X Europe
195	15.05	09:03:16	London Stock Exchange
108	15.05	09:03:16	London Stock Exchange
300	15.02	09:19:30	London Stock Exchange
69	15.02	09:19:30	London Stock Exchange
423	15.00	09:34:40	London Stock Exchange
164	14.96	09:48:02	London Stock Exchange
110	15.02	10:06:31	London Stock Exchange
131	15.02	10:06:31	London Stock Exchange
34	14.99	10:10:47	London Stock Exchange
603	14.99	10:16:29	London Stock Exchange
137	14.97	10:38:55	London Stock Exchange
239	14.97	10:38:55	London Stock Exchange
40	14.97	10:38:55	London Stock Exchange
150	14.98	11:09:24	London Stock Exchange
260	14.98	11:09:24	Turquoise
117	14.98	11:09:24	London Stock Exchange
388	15.00	11:21:06	London Stock Exchange
369	14.97	11:37:11	London Stock Exchange
110	14.99	12:08:27	London Stock Exchange
131	14.99	12:08:27	London Stock Exchange
260	14.98	12:09:34	London Stock Exchange
42	15.05	12:43:25	London Stock Exchange
376	15.03	12:52:08	Chi-X Europe
389	15.03	12:52:08	London Stock Exchange
380	15.03	12:52:08	London Stock Exchange
241	15.02	12:54:24	Chi-X Europe
40	15.05	13:42:34	London Stock Exchange
407	15.05	13:42:34	London Stock Exchange
18	15.06	13:56:13	London Stock Exchange
383	15.06	13:56:13	London Stock Exchange
238	15.08	14:12:54	London Stock Exchange
157	15.08	14:12:54	London Stock Exchange
705	15.07	14:31:57	London Stock Exchange
62	15.05	14:50:42	London Stock Exchange
125	15.05	14:50:42	London Stock Exchange
14	15.05	14:50:42	London Stock Exchange
40	15.05	14:50:42	London Stock Exchange
312	15.04	14:58:59	Turquoise
241	15.04	14:58:59	London Stock Exchange
197	15.04	14:58:59	London Stock Exchange
261	15.04	14:58:59	London Stock Exchange
389	15.04	14:58:59	London Stock Exchange
389	15.04	15:22:22	London Stock Exchange
241	15.03	15:23:33	Turquoise
223	15.02	15:29:45	London Stock Exchange
259	15.02	15:29:45	London Stock Exchange
412	15.03	15:35:34	London Stock Exchange
433	15.02	15:43:45	London Stock Exchange
426	15.01	15:52:30	London Stock Exchange
201	14.98	15:59:30	London Stock Exchange
217	14.98	15:59:30	London Stock Exchange
90	15.00	16:13:16	BATS Europe
100	15.00	16:13:16	BATS Europe
51	15.00	16:13:16	BATS Europe
275	15.00	16:16:04	Turquoise
360	15.00	16:16:04	London Stock Exchange
112	14.99	16:23:13	Chi-X Europe
1	14.99	16:23:13	Chi-X Europe
90	14.99	16:23:13	BATS Europe
87	14.99	16:23:13	Chi-X Europe
62	14.99	16:23:13	London Stock Exchange
35	14.99	16:23:13	London Stock Exchange
178	14.99	16:23:13	London Stock Exchange
264	14.98	16:25:30	Turquoise
241	14.98	16:25:30	Turquoise
274	14.98	16:25:30	London Stock Exchange

 

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