Publication of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

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Worldwide Healthcare Trust PLC is seeking shareholder approval to renew its share buy-back authority at a General Meeting to be held on October 1, 2025, at 9.30 a.m. This renewal supports the company's policy to buy back shares if the share price discount to NAV exceeds 6%. Since the 2025 AGM, the company has bought back 48,578,185 ordinary shares for a total consideration of £156.0 million, representing 69.8% of the existing authority. The board aims to avoid fully utilizing the existing authority before the next AGM, ensuring the buy-back policy can continue.

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12 September 2025

 

 

Worldwide Healthcare Trust PLC

(the "Company")  

Publication of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

Renewal of share buy-back authority

The Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") announces that it is today publishing a Circular (the "Circular"), which contains a notice of a general meeting (the "General Meeting"), at which the Board is seeking Shareholders' approval to renew the Company's buy-back authority in order to support the continued operation of the Company's buy-back policy. The General Meeting will be held at 25 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AL, at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 October 2025.

The Board's policy is to buy back the Company's shares if the share price discount to the NAV per Share exceeds 6 per cent. on an ongoing basis (the "Buy-Back Policy").  Since the 2025 AGM, and as at the Latest Practicable Date, the Company has bought back 48,578,185 Ordinary Shares for a total consideration of £156.0m representing 69.8 per cent. of the Existing Authority. To avoid a situation arising whereby the Existing Authority is fully utilised prior to the Company's next annual general meeting, resulting in the Board being unable to implement the Buy-Back Policy, the Board believes that it is in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders for the buy-back authority to be renewed prior to the next annual general meeting. Accordingly, the Board has convened the General Meeting in order to seek the authority of Shareholders to renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares.

A copy of the Circular will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The Circular and the Notice of the General Meeting will also be available on the Company's website at https://www.worldwidewh.com/.

Unless otherwise defined, all definitions used in this announcement will have the same meaning as described in the Circular.

 

 

For Further Information, please contact

 

Frostrow Capital LLP, Company Secretary

Mark Pope

 

+44 (0)203 008 4913

 

   

 

 

 




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