Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6594W

WH Smith PLC

10 February 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 25 January 2017, the following number of its ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ("Shares") as part of the buyback programme announced on 25 January 2017:

Date of purchase:                                            10 February 2017

Number of Shares purchased:                   20,000 Shares

Highest price paid per Share:                     1655.0 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                      1646.0 pence

Average price paid per Share:                    1652.3558 pence

The Company intends to cancel these Shares.  

The Company has 111,729,942 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 February 2017

Investment firm:             Barclays Capital Securities Limited

Aggregate information:

Venue	Volume-weighted average price, pence	Aggregated volume
BATS Europe	1653.7647	170
Chi-X Europe	1653.1817	798
Turquoise	1654.0000	210
London Stock Exchange	1652.2897	18,822

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Trading venue
31	16.53	08:02:11	London Stock Exchange
378	16.50	08:10:35	London Stock Exchange
203	16.50	08:10:35	London Stock Exchange
105	16.50	08:10:35	London Stock Exchange
79	16.50	08:10:35	London Stock Exchange
265	16.47	08:13:03	London Stock Exchange
70	16.51	08:27:15	London Stock Exchange
253	16.51	08:27:15	London Stock Exchange
570	16.53	08:41:59	London Stock Exchange
210	16.53	08:41:59	London Stock Exchange
268	16.53	08:48:04	London Stock Exchange
203	16.53	08:48:04	London Stock Exchange
266	16.52	09:03:32	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	09:03:32	London Stock Exchange
334	16.53	09:16:07	London Stock Exchange
212	16.53	09:16:07	London Stock Exchange
46	16.52	09:32:01	London Stock Exchange
164	16.52	09:32:01	London Stock Exchange
299	16.51	09:33:50	London Stock Exchange
169	16.51	09:33:50	London Stock Exchange
41	16.51	09:33:50	London Stock Exchange
210	16.51	09:33:50	London Stock Exchange
48	16.54	09:53:21	London Stock Exchange
250	16.54	09:53:21	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	09:53:21	London Stock Exchange
204	16.54	09:54:00	London Stock Exchange
349	16.54	09:54:00	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	10:04:39	London Stock Exchange
314	16.55	10:04:39	London Stock Exchange
287	16.55	10:12:22	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	10:12:45	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	10:28:24	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	10:28:24	London Stock Exchange
428	16.54	10:41:54	London Stock Exchange
210	16.54	10:41:54	Turquoise
210	16.51	10:43:07	London Stock Exchange
163	16.49	10:51:14	London Stock Exchange
87	16.49	10:51:14	London Stock Exchange
17	16.49	10:51:14	London Stock Exchange
327	16.46	10:55:08	London Stock Exchange
131	16.54	11:20:42	London Stock Exchange
173	16.54	11:22:11	London Stock Exchange
37	16.55	11:25:12	London Stock Exchange
210	16.55	11:25:12	London Stock Exchange
210	16.55	11:29:14	Chi-X Europe
599	16.55	11:32:13	London Stock Exchange
31	16.55	11:35:10	London Stock Exchange
179	16.55	11:35:10	London Stock Exchange
267	16.54	11:44:35	London Stock Exchange
15	16.54	11:52:56	London Stock Exchange
195	16.54	11:52:56	London Stock Exchange
439	16.52	11:57:53	London Stock Exchange
275	16.52	11:57:53	Chi-X Europe
331	16.52	12:04:32	London Stock Exchange
74	16.52	12:14:26	London Stock Exchange
221	16.52	12:14:26	London Stock Exchange
250	16.53	12:33:06	London Stock Exchange
196	16.53	12:33:06	London Stock Exchange
101	16.53	12:33:06	Chi-X Europe
43	16.54	12:35:48	London Stock Exchange
110	16.55	12:39:37	London Stock Exchange
100	16.55	12:39:37	BATS Europe
210	16.55	12:44:29	London Stock Exchange
211	16.55	12:44:32	London Stock Exchange
210	16.55	12:49:22	London Stock Exchange
64	16.53	12:53:10	Chi-X Europe
148	16.53	12:53:10	Chi-X Europe
325	16.53	12:53:10	London Stock Exchange
210	16.53	12:55:16	London Stock Exchange
268	16.52	13:06:08	London Stock Exchange
100	16.52	13:06:08	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	13:06:08	London Stock Exchange
267	16.51	13:11:17	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	13:24:00	London Stock Exchange
574	16.52	13:24:00	London Stock Exchange
140	16.51	13:39:07	London Stock Exchange
70	16.52	13:39:08	BATS Europe
210	16.51	13:39:12	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	13:47:05	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	13:47:05	London Stock Exchange
210	16.51	13:51:42	London Stock Exchange
190	16.52	13:55:24	London Stock Exchange
46	16.52	13:55:24	London Stock Exchange
210	16.52	13:58:27	London Stock Exchange
210	16.53	14:00:51	London Stock Exchange
437	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
98	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
248	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
809	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
30	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
333	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
215	16.51	14:15:17	London Stock Exchange
400	16.49	14:22:00	London Stock Exchange

 

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