Transaction in Own Shares & Rule 2.9 Announcement

SThree plc

21 September 2026

 

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SThree plc (the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares and Rule 2.9 Announcement

The Company announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 12 February 2026, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") through JOH Berenberg, Gossler & Co KG (which is trading for these purposes as Berenberg) ("Berenberg").

Ordinary Shares

Date of Purchase:	18 September 2026
Number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	16,714
Lowest price per share (pence):	295.5000
Highest price per share (pence):	302.0000
Weighted average price per day (pence):	299.1298

The Company intends to cancel the purchased ordinary shares.

Following settlement of the above purchases, SThree has purchased a total of 5,975,543 ordinary shares since the commencement of the buyback programme and will have 121,884,677 ordinary shares in issue. There are 35,767 ordinary shares held in treasury. The total voting rights in the Company are therefore 121,848,910 and this can 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 change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 Rule 2.9

The Company announced on 9 September 2026 that it had entered into an offer period. The ordinary shares are relevant securities of SThree for the purposes of Rule 8 of The City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Code"). In accordance with Rule 2.9 of the Code, the Company confirms that it has 121,848,910 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) as at the date and time of this announcement. The ordinary shares are voting shares (each such ordinary share carries one vote per ordinary share) and are admitted to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange under the International Securities Identification Number GB00B0KM9T71 and LEI number 2138003NEBX5VRP3EX50.

Aggregate Information

Venue	Volume-weighted average price (p)	Aggregated volume	Lowest price per share (p)	Highest price per share (p)
XLON	299.1298	16,714	295.5000	302.0000

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 as it forms part of UK law, a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Berenberg on behalf of the Company as part of the buyback programme is found below.

Date and time of each trade	Number of shares purchased	Price (pence per share)	Trading Venue	Transaction Reference Number
18 September 2026 08:01:00	620	295.5000	XLON	1523374035568448
18 September 2026 08:01:00	452	297.0000	XLON	1523374035568451
18 September 2026 12:17:20	984	302.0000	XLON	1523374035622119
18 September 2026 12:38:43	720	301.0000	XLON	1523374035624269
18 September 2026 12:38:43	140	301.0000	XLON	1523374035624270
18 September 2026 12:57:38	2,000	300.5000	XLON	1523374035626074
18 September 2026 12:57:38	2,000	300.5000	XLON	1523374035626075
18 September 2026 12:57:38	2,000	300.5000	XLON	1523374035626076
18 September 2026 13:43:07	474	298.5000	XLON	1523374035632209
18 September 2026 13:43:10	73	298.0000	XLON	1523374035632215
18 September 2026 13:48:32	790	298.0000	XLON	1523374035633047
18 September 2026 13:48:32	311	298.0000	XLON	1523374035633051
18 September 2026 14:45:02	520	297.0000	XLON	1523374035646233
18 September 2026 15:50:29	606	297.5000	XLON	1523374035662138
18 September 2026 15:59:39	1,000	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666106
18 September 2026 15:59:39	1,000	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666107
18 September 2026 15:59:39	1,000	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666108
18 September 2026 15:59:44	218	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666451
18 September 2026 15:59:44	436	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666452
18 September 2026 15:59:44	218	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666453
18 September 2026 15:59:44	72	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666455
18 September 2026 15:59:44	146	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666456
18 September 2026 15:59:44	134	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666457
18 September 2026 15:59:44	533	298.0000	XLON	1523374035666458
18 September 2026 16:01:09	90	297.5000	XLON	1523374035668094
18 September 2026 16:14:42	177	298.0000	XLON	1523374035671897

Enquiries:

SThree Plc
Timo Lehne, CEO	via Alma
Damian Fehrenberg, Interim CFO
Charlie Hildesley, Investor Relations Manager
Alma Strategic Communications	[phone]
Rebecca Sanders-Hewett	[e-mail]
Hilary Buchanan
Sam Modlin
Rose Docherty

 

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