Transaction in Own Shares

Vertu Motors PLC

23 December 2025

 

23 December 2025
Vertu Motors plc
("Vertu Motors" or the "Company")
Transaction in Own Shares
Vertu Motors plc (AIM: VTU) announces that on 22 December 2025 it purchased 77,955 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company (the "Repurchased Shares"), pursuant to the share buyback programme (the "Buyback Programme") that was announced on 06 February 2025, as follows (together the "Transaction"):
Date of purchase			22 December 2025
Number of ordinary shares purchased			77,955
Highest price paid per ordinary share			62.900 pence
Lowest price paid per ordinary share			61.820 pence
Volume weighted average price paid per ordinary share			62.324 pence
Application will be made for the Repurchased Shares to be cancelled. Following the cancellation of the Repurchased Shares, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights will be 313,839,459 which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Vertu Motors under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules. The Company holds no shares in treasury. Since the Group began Share Buybacks in July 2017, over £ 45.6 m has been returned to shareholders, reducing the Company's shares in issue by 21.0% over the same period.
The Company will make further announcements in due course following the completion of any further purchases pursuant to the Buyback Programme.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 details of the purchase of its own ordinary shares by Vertu Motors, which were all executed through the Company's broker, Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited ("Shore Capital"), are set out below:
Schedule of Purchases:
Shares purchased:	Vertu Motors plc (ISIN: GB00B1GK4645)
Date of purchases:	22 December 2025
Aggregate information:
Aggregated Volume	Volume-weighted average price (pence)		Venue
77,955	62.324 pence		London Stock Exchange
Individual transactions:
19,000 18,000 24,000	62.900 pence 62.360 pence 62.200 pence		09.24    UK 10.51    UK 14.34    UK
16,955	61.820 pence		15.50    UK
Vertu Motors plc			Tel: [phone]
Robert Forrester, CEO
Karen Anderson, CFO Phil Clark, Investor Relations
Stifel (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)		Tel: [phone]
Matthew Blawat
Callum Stewart
Shore Capital (Joint Broker)			Tel: [phone]
Mark Percy / Sophie Collins (Corporate Advisory)
Isobel Jones (Corporate Broking)
Camarco			Tel: [phone]
Billy Clegg
Tom Huddart
Notes to Editors
Vertu Motors is the fourth largest automotive retailer in the UK with a network of 194 sales outlets across the UK.
Vertu Motors was established in November 2006 with the strategy to consolidate the UK motor retail sector.  It is intended that the Group will continue to acquire motor retail operations to grow a scaled dealership group.  The Group's acquisition strategy is supplemented by a focused organic growth strategy to drive operational efficiencies through its national dealership network.
Vertu's Mission Statement is to "deliver an outstanding customer motoring experience through honesty and trust".
Vertu Motors Group websites - https://investors.vertumotors.com / www.vertucareers.com Vertu brand websites - www.vertumotors.com / www.vertumotorcycles.com

 

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