Transaction in Own Shares & Completion of Buyback

Barclays PLC

24 October 2023

 

24 October 2023

Barclays PLC

Transaction in Own Shares and Completion of Buyback

Barclays PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Citigroup Global Markets Limited as part of its buy-back announced on 28 July 2023:

Date of purchase:	23 October 2023
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	5,036,604
Highest price paid per share:	145.6600p
Lowest price paid per share:	143.4800p
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	144.2720p

The Company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares.

Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 15,073,890,051 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The above figure (15,073,890,051) may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended, a full breakdown of the individual purchases of ordinary shares made by Citigroup Global Markets Limited on behalf of the Company can be found at:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0281R_1-2023-10-23.pdf

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these shares, the share buy-back programme announced on 28 July 2023 has completed. Since the commencement of the buy-back, the Company has repurchased for cancellation 493,603,770 ordinary shares in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 151.9437p per ordinary share for a total consideration of approximately £750 million.

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