Barclays Regulatory News (BARC)

18 May 2026

Barclays PLC

Transaction in own shares

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 J.P. Morgan Securities plc (''JPM'') as part of its buy-back announced on 29 April 2026:

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 13,588,970,373 ordinary shares with voting rights.

There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The above figure 13,588,970,373 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 JPM on behalf of the Company

can be found at:

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6044E_1-2026-5-15.pdf

Since the commencement of the share buy-back programme announced on 29 April 2026, the Company has purchased 25,859,455 ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 425.7477p per ordinary share.

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