Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8395T
WH Smith PLC
10 January 2017
 

 

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 announced on 5 December 2016:

 

Date of purchase:                                            10 January 2017

               

Number of Shares purchased:                   26,750 Shares

               

Highest price paid per Share:                     1602.0 pence

               

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1592.0 pence

               

Average price paid per Share:                    1599.1672 pence

               

               

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

               

The Company has 112,005,195 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:          10 January 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

 

Aggregate information:

Venue

Volume-weighted

average price, pence

Aggregated volume

BATS Europe

1600.0238

1,426

Chi-X Europe

1600.1643

2,008

Turquoise

1599.3786

3,730

London Stock Exchange

1598.9624

19,586

 

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price
(pence per share)

Time of transaction

Trading venue

34

15.96

08:08:13

London Stock Exchange

457

15.97

08:13:30

London Stock Exchange

116

15.99

08:21:30

London Stock Exchange

223

15.99

08:25:28

London Stock Exchange

63

15.99

08:25:28

London Stock Exchange

515

15.98

08:35:54

London Stock Exchange

181

15.98

08:59:00

London Stock Exchange

343

15.98

08:59:00

London Stock Exchange

92

15.98

08:59:00

London Stock Exchange

2

15.96

09:14:48

London Stock Exchange

250

15.96

09:14:48

London Stock Exchange

185

15.96

09:14:48

London Stock Exchange

81

15.97

09:22:55

London Stock Exchange

108

15.97

09:22:55

London Stock Exchange

101

15.97

09:22:55

London Stock Exchange

232

15.95

09:35:40

London Stock Exchange

289

15.95

09:35:40

London Stock Exchange

439

15.92

09:51:27

London Stock Exchange

100

15.96

10:23:16

BATS Europe

100

15.96

10:23:16

BATS Europe

32

15.96

10:23:16

BATS Europe

232

15.95

10:29:02

Turquoise

452

15.97

10:44:18

Turquoise

105

15.97

10:44:18

London Stock Exchange

47

15.97

10:44:18

London Stock Exchange

155

15.97

10:44:18

London Stock Exchange

384

15.97

10:44:18

London Stock Exchange

8

15.97

11:11:13

London Stock Exchange

232

16.00

11:12:09

London Stock Exchange

232

16.00

11:24:05

London Stock Exchange

371

15.99

11:34:23

London Stock Exchange

232

15.99

11:34:23

London Stock Exchange

301

15.99

11:34:23

Turquoise

289

16.00

11:43:53

London Stock Exchange

290

15.99

11:49:29

London Stock Exchange

29

16.01

12:03:22

London Stock Exchange

25

16.01

12:03:22

London Stock Exchange

377

16.01

12:03:22

London Stock Exchange

289

15.99

12:11:36

London Stock Exchange

158

16.02

12:44:01

London Stock Exchange

53

16.02

12:44:01

Turquoise

50

16.02

12:44:01

London Stock Exchange

10

16.02

12:44:01

Chi-X Europe

393

16.01

12:47:46

Turquoise

500

16.01

12:47:46

London Stock Exchange

393

15.97

12:57:08

London Stock Exchange

249

15.95

13:06:29

London Stock Exchange

41

15.95

13:06:29

London Stock Exchange

290

16.01

13:18:04

London Stock Exchange

232

15.99

13:22:08

London Stock Exchange

289

16.00

13:34:54

London Stock Exchange

176

16.00

13:34:54

Chi-X Europe

56

16.00

13:35:01

Chi-X Europe

147

16.00

13:46:32

Chi-X Europe

83

16.00

13:47:01

Chi-X Europe

59

16.00

13:47:36

Chi-X Europe

232

16.00

13:47:36

London Stock Exchange

232

16.00

13:49:47

Chi-X Europe

34

16.00

13:56:32

London Stock Exchange

37

16.00

14:10:49

Chi-X Europe

250

16.00

14:10:49

Chi-X Europe

80

16.00

14:10:49

Chi-X Europe

243

16.00

14:10:49

London Stock Exchange

232

16.00

14:10:49

London Stock Exchange

248

16.00

14:20:24

Chi-X Europe

189

16.00

14:20:24

Chi-X Europe

384

16.00

14:28:56

London Stock Exchange

290

16.00

14:33:00

London Stock Exchange

103

15.99

14:40:29

London Stock Exchange

186

15.99

14:40:29

London Stock Exchange

90

16.00

14:42:20

London Stock Exchange

77

16.00

14:42:20

London Stock Exchange

65

16.00

14:42:20

London Stock Exchange

289

15.99

14:49:00

London Stock Exchange

290

16.00

14:53:06

London Stock Exchange

291

16.00

15:05:26

Turquoise

239

16.00

15:05:26

London Stock Exchange

16

16.00

15:11:17

Turquoise

143

16.00

15:12:04

Turquoise

97

16.00

15:12:12

Turquoise

172

16.00

15:12:21

Turquoise

95

16.00

15:17:09

London Stock Exchange

238

16.00

15:17:55

Turquoise

257

16.00

15:17:55

Turquoise

232

16.00

15:29:07

Turquoise

288

16.00

15:29:07

London Stock Exchange

290

16.00

15:37:04

London Stock Exchange

232

16.00

15:41:12

Turquoise

232

15.99

15:46:49

Turquoise

126

16.00

15:54:37

BATS Europe

106

16.00

15:54:37

BATS Europe

141

16.02

15:59:59

Chi-X Europe

14

16.02

15:59:59

Chi-X Europe

250

16.02

15:59:59

London Stock Exchange

233

16.02

15:59:59

London Stock Exchange

265

16.01

16:02:08

London Stock Exchange

500

16.01

16:02:08

London Stock Exchange

357

16.01

16:02:08

London Stock Exchange

17

16.01

16:02:08

London Stock Exchange

7

16.01

16:02:08

London Stock Exchange

232

16.01

16:02:08

Turquoise

421

16.01

16:17:05

London Stock Exchange

142

16.00

16:19:32

Chi-X Europe

144

16.00

16:19:52

Chi-X Europe

34

16.00

16:23:16

Turquoise

123

16.00

16:23:40

Turquoise

90

16.01

16:26:03

BATS Europe

39

16.01

16:26:03

BATS Europe

108

16.01

16:26:03

BATS Europe

39

16.01

16:26:03

BATS Europe

107

16.01

16:26:03

BATS Europe

31

16.01

16:27:41

BATS Europe

106

16.01

16:27:41

BATS Europe

112

16.01

16:27:41

BATS Europe

18

16.01

16:28:25

BATS Europe

200

16.01

16:28:25

BATS Europe

112

16.01

16:28:25

BATS Europe

131

16.01

16:28:25

London Stock Exchange

5000

15.99

16:35:00

London Stock Exchange

 


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