Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7454P

WH Smith PLC

21 November 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:                                            18 November 2016

Number of Shares purchased:                   35,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1524.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1506.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1518.8648 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 112,525,444 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:          18 November 2016

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1523.3207	1,029
Chi-X Europe	1522.5698	1,297
Turquoise	1517.5959	9,091
London Stock Exchange	1518.9558	23,583

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
29	1521	08:00:40	BATS Europe
137	1516	08:05:01	London Stock Exchange
140	1516	08:05:01	London Stock Exchange
246	1522	08:09:43	London Stock Exchange
228	1519	08:15:30	London Stock Exchange
70	1519	08:15:30	London Stock Exchange
120	1520	08:21:29	London Stock Exchange
62	1520	08:21:29	London Stock Exchange
42	1520	08:21:29	London Stock Exchange
42	1520	08:21:29	London Stock Exchange
98	1513	08:28:39	London Stock Exchange
179	1513	08:28:39	London Stock Exchange
107	1513	08:28:39	London Stock Exchange
376	1517	08:40:58	London Stock Exchange
195	1517	08:40:58	Turquoise
30	1517	08:40:58	Turquoise
220	1514	08:43:55	London Stock Exchange
2	1514	08:43:55	London Stock Exchange
38	1511	09:01:07	London Stock Exchange
389	1511	09:01:07	London Stock Exchange
324	1511	09:01:07	Turquoise
26	1511	09:01:07	Turquoise
89	1508	09:04:24	London Stock Exchange
33	1508	09:04:24	London Stock Exchange
100	1508	09:04:24	London Stock Exchange
278	1508	09:10:05	London Stock Exchange
121	1508	09:10:08	London Stock Exchange
222	1509	09:24:43	London Stock Exchange
267	1509	09:24:43	London Stock Exchange
232	1509	09:24:43	Turquoise
222	1509	09:27:27	London Stock Exchange
64	1507	09:31:04	Turquoise
158	1507	09:31:04	Turquoise
222	1506	09:35:10	London Stock Exchange
59	1509	09:39:01	Turquoise
165	1509	09:39:01	Turquoise
150	1509	09:46:40	Turquoise
222	1509	09:48:33	London Stock Exchange
74	1509	09:48:33	Turquoise
11	1509	09:51:07	Turquoise
74	1509	09:51:18	Turquoise
384	1512	10:04:23	Turquoise
287	1512	10:04:23	London Stock Exchange
567	1514	10:14:31	London Stock Exchange
399	1510	10:27:09	London Stock Exchange
222	1510	10:32:45	London Stock Exchange
301	1514	10:55:33	Turquoise
359	1517	11:02:17	Turquoise
98	1517	11:02:17	London Stock Exchange
307	1517	11:02:17	London Stock Exchange
25	1516	11:05:11	Turquoise
197	1516	11:05:11	Turquoise
207	1515	11:14:10	London Stock Exchange
236	1515	11:14:10	London Stock Exchange
50	1515	11:36:05	Turquoise
102	1519	11:52:02	London Stock Exchange
143	1519	11:52:02	London Stock Exchange
2	1518	11:56:27	London Stock Exchange
500	1518	11:56:27	London Stock Exchange
51	1518	11:56:27	London Stock Exchange
504	1518	11:56:27	Turquoise
122	1519	11:59:12	London Stock Exchange
100	1519	11:59:12	London Stock Exchange
489	1518	12:08:37	London Stock Exchange
440	1519	12:47:20	Turquoise
7	1520	12:49:43	London Stock Exchange
169	1520	12:49:43	London Stock Exchange
125	1520	12:49:50	London Stock Exchange
358	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
223	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
18	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
153	1520	13:03:32	London Stock Exchange
18	1520	13:03:32	London Stock Exchange
124	1520	13:03:32	London Stock Exchange
68	1520	13:03:32	London Stock Exchange
90	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
70	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
42	1520	13:03:32	Turquoise
26	1520	13:03:45	London Stock Exchange
196	1520	13:03:45	London Stock Exchange
399	1521	13:17:44	London Stock Exchange
222	1521	13:17:44	London Stock Exchange
399	1519	13:26:48	London Stock Exchange
60	1521	13:45:13	London Stock Exchange
162	1521	13:45:13	London Stock Exchange
222	1522	13:52:16	London Stock Exchange
122	1522	14:01:06	London Stock Exchange
100	1522	14:01:06	BATS Europe
222	1522	14:03:14	London Stock Exchange
1	1523	14:07:35	London Stock Exchange
31	1523	14:07:35	London Stock Exchange
100	1523	14:07:35	BATS Europe
90	1523	14:07:35	BATS Europe
24	1522	14:08:08	London Stock Exchange
337	1522	14:08:08	London Stock Exchange
138	1522	14:08:08	London Stock Exchange
114	1522	14:08:08	London Stock Exchange
268	1522	14:08:08	London Stock Exchange
272	1522	14:08:08	Turquoise
109	1522	14:08:08	Turquoise
400	1522	14:18:53	London Stock Exchange
56	1522	14:21:44	London Stock Exchange
166	1522	14:21:44	London Stock Exchange
222	1522	14:25:23	Turquoise
222	1521	14:27:43	Turquoise
401	1521	14:32:18	Chi-X Europe
201	1518	14:37:47	London Stock Exchange
198	1518	14:38:57	London Stock Exchange
77	1517	14:45:03	London Stock Exchange
125	1517	14:45:03	London Stock Exchange
148	1517	14:45:03	London Stock Exchange
264	1517	14:45:03	Turquoise
360	1518	14:58:08	London Stock Exchange
473	1518	14:58:08	Turquoise
400	1519	15:03:17	Turquoise
53	1518	15:05:23	Turquoise
288	1519	15:11:13	London Stock Exchange
263	1519	15:11:13	Turquoise
230	1519	15:19:38	Turquoise
355	1519	15:19:38	London Stock Exchange
207	1519	15:19:38	London Stock Exchange
15	1519	15:19:38	London Stock Exchange
399	1518	15:26:17	London Stock Exchange
59	1518	15:26:57	Turquoise
163	1518	15:27:38	Turquoise
213	1519	15:39:22	London Stock Exchange
442	1519	15:39:22	London Stock Exchange
246	1519	15:39:22	Turquoise
222	1520	15:41:35	London Stock Exchange
151	1520	15:50:58	Turquoise
71	1520	15:52:06	Turquoise
200	1524	15:58:33	London Stock Exchange
22	1524	15:58:33	Chi-X Europe
203	1523	15:59:36	London Stock Exchange
473	1523	15:59:36	London Stock Exchange
308	1523	15:59:36	Turquoise
89	1523	15:59:36	Turquoise
53	1523	16:08:14	Turquoise
12	1524	16:09:37	Chi-X Europe
142	1524	16:09:37	Chi-X Europe
68	1524	16:09:37	Chi-X Europe
90	1524	16:12:18	BATS Europe
2	1524	16:12:18	BATS Europe
174	1524	16:12:18	BATS Europe
99	1524	16:12:59	BATS Europe
90	1524	16:12:59	BATS Europe
33	1524	16:12:59	BATS Europe
246	1523	16:15:32	Turquoise
489	1523	16:15:32	London Stock Exchange
219	1523	16:15:32	BATS Europe
3	1523	16:15:32	BATS Europe
100	1523	16:15:32	Chi-X Europe
248	1523	16:15:32	London Stock Exchange
226	1523	16:17:06	Turquoise
147	1523	16:17:06	Chi-X Europe
542	1523	16:25:01	London Stock Exchange
442	1523	16:25:01	London Stock Exchange
348	1523	16:25:01	Turquoise
82	1523	16:25:01	Chi-X Europe
323	1523	16:25:01	Chi-X Europe
72	1523	16:29:01	London Stock Exchange
136	1523	16:29:01	London Stock Exchange
195	1523	16:29:01	London Stock Exchange
3072	1523	16:35:01	London Stock Exchange
937	1523	16:35:01	London Stock Exchange
991	1523	16:35:01	London Stock Exchange

 

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