Last checked at 8 Mar 2018 17:39
8 March 2018
National Grid plc ("National Grid")
ISIN Code: GB00BDR05C01
Transaction in Own Shares
National Grid announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 12204/473p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") as part of its buy-back programme announced on 14 February 2018. The purpose of the programme is, as previously announced, to reduce the share capital of the Company as part of its management of the dilution resulting from the take-up of its scrip dividend.
Date of purchase: | 8 March 2018 |
Number of Ordinary shares of 12204/473p each purchased: | 40,173 |
Highest price paid per share (pence): | 788.1612 |
Lowest price paid per share (pence): | 788.1612 |
Volume weighted average price paid per share: | 788.1612 |
National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 272,628,081 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,365,119,746 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
A schedule of individual trades carried out by Barclays (BARCGBN1) as principal in connection with the above purchases on 8 March 2018 is set out below.
Schedule of purchases - aggregate information
Trading venue | Volume weighted average price(pence per share) | Aggregated volume |
BATS Europe | 778.5000 | 630 |
Chi-X Europe | 775.6216 | 1,109 |
Turquoise | 780.0000 | 592 |
London Stock Exchange | 777.3807 | 37,842 |
Schedule of purchases - individual transactions
Number of shares purchased | Transaction price(pence per share) | Time of transaction (including time zone) | Trading venue | Transaction reference number |
125 | 777.00 | 08:00:31 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953011000 |
1247 | 779.30 | 08:01:13 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505554000 |
424 | 779.30 | 08:01:13 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505554000 |
92 | 779.30 | 08:01:13 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953013000 |
408 | 777.80 | 08:01:34 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505555000 |
824 | 777.80 | 08:01:34 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505555000 |
752 | 777.00 | 08:03:15 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505561000 |
94 | 777.00 | 08:03:15 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505561000 |
404 | 776.90 | 08:03:15 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953020000 |
268 | 775.80 | 08:04:00 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505563000 |
734 | 775.80 | 08:04:00 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505563000 |
268 | 775.80 | 08:04:00 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505563000 |
726 | 775.00 | 08:04:50 | Chi-X Europe | 592106045505565000 |
1603 | 777.60 | 08:06:24 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953030000 |
196 | 777.60 | 08:06:25 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953030000 |
89 | 777.60 | 08:06:25 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953030000 |
693 | 777.50 | 08:06:25 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505572000 |
587 | 777.20 | 08:06:30 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505572000 |
375 | 777.20 | 08:06:30 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505572000 |
38 | 777.10 | 08:06:34 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953031000 |
417 | 777.10 | 08:06:34 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953031000 |
193 | 776.90 | 08:08:06 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953037000 |
1185 | 776.90 | 08:08:06 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953037000 |
1000 | 776.80 | 08:08:10 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505579000 |
16 | 776.80 | 08:08:10 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505579000 |
383 | 776.80 | 08:08:10 | Chi-X Europe | 592106045505579000 |
1279 | 775.60 | 08:09:11 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505583000 |
17 | 775.60 | 08:09:11 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505583000 |
13 | 775.60 | 08:09:11 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505583000 |
173 | 775.50 | 08:09:11 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505583000 |
1020 | 775.30 | 08:09:43 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505585000 |
412 | 775.30 | 08:09:43 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953042000 |
435 | 775.80 | 08:10:56 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505591000 |
940 | 775.80 | 08:10:56 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505591000 |
854 | 775.50 | 08:11:32 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505594000 |
513 | 775.50 | 08:11:32 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505594000 |
507 | 776.20 | 08:12:52 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953055000 |
743 | 776.20 | 08:12:52 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953055000 |
687 | 776.20 | 08:12:54 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505600000 |
435 | 775.90 | 08:13:35 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505604000 |
368 | 775.90 | 08:13:35 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505604000 |
220 | 775.90 | 08:13:35 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505604000 |
481 | 775.90 | 08:13:35 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505604000 |
1193 | 776.20 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
4 | 776.20 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
747 | 776.10 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
276 | 776.10 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
304 | 776.10 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
139 | 776.10 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505614000 |
15 | 776.10 | 08:15:37 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953069000 |
1032 | 776.90 | 08:17:10 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505622000 |
927 | 776.80 | 08:17:11 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953075000 |
1467 | 777.10 | 08:17:42 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505624000 |
512 | 777.00 | 08:17:51 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505625000 |
375 | 777.00 | 08:17:51 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505625000 |
1076 | 778.00 | 08:18:32 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505628000 |
431 | 777.90 | 08:18:40 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953081000 |
1054 | 778.50 | 08:20:04 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505633000 |
400 | 778.50 | 08:20:04 | BATS Europe | 592106045505633000 |
230 | 778.50 | 08:20:04 | BATS Europe | 592106045505633000 |
319 | 779.70 | 08:22:05 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505641000 |
574 | 779.70 | 08:22:05 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505641000 |
977 | 779.70 | 08:22:05 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505641000 |
550 | 779.70 | 08:22:05 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505641000 |
124 | 779.70 | 08:22:05 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505641000 |
690 | 779.60 | 08:22:32 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953095000 |
780 | 780.00 | 08:22:57 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953096000 |
500 | 780.00 | 08:25:08 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953103000 |
592 | 780.00 | 08:25:08 | Turquoise | 606179795953103000 |
561 | 780.00 | 08:25:08 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953103000 |
725 | 779.90 | 08:25:10 | London Stock Exchange | 606179795953104000 |
1192 | 780.00 | 08:30:36 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505669000 |
169 | 780.00 | 08:31:33 | London Stock Exchange | 592106045505672000 |
This announcement will also be available on National Grid's website at http://investors.nationalgrid.com/rns.aspx.
Enquiries to:
Z Burnell, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3227).