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30 March 2021
Barclays PLCTransaction 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 as part of its buy-back announced on 19 March 2021.
Date of purchase: | 29 March 2021 |
Number of ordinary shares purchased: | 16,661,600 |
Highest price paid per share: | 183.0200p |
Lowest price paid per share: | 179.0800p |
Volume weighted average price paid per share: | 181.4924p |
The Company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares.
Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company's issued share capital consists of 17,256,350,631 ordinary shares with voting rights.
There are no ordinary shares held in treasury.
The above figure (17,256,350,631) 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 Retained EU Law as defined in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, a full breakdown of the individual purchases of ordinary shares made by J.P. Morgan Securities plc on behalf of the Company can be found at.
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8689T_1-2021-3-29.pdf
Since the commencement of the share buy-back programme announced on 19 March 2021, the Company has purchased 109,281,460 ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange in aggregate at a weighted average price of 182.1111p per ordinary share.
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