Wh Smith Regulatory News (SMWH)

WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

30 October 2024

WH Smith PLC

Transactions in own shares

WH Smith PLC (the 'Company') announces the purchase, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 26 January 2024, of 11,000 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 30 October 2024 as part of the buyback programme announced on 23 September 2024 (the 'Programme').The Company intends to cancel these shares.Since the announcement of the programme (the 'Programme'), the Company has purchased a total of 306,955 Ordinary Shares.The Company has 130,609,337 shares in issue . This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may 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 a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.The table below contains detailed information about the purchases referred to above.

Schedule of purchases

Shares purchased:

WH Smith PLC (ISIN: GB00B2PDGW16)

Date of purchases:

30 October 2024

Investment firm:

Barclays

Aggregate information

Venue

Aggregated number of ordinary shares purchased

Volume-weighted average price per share

Lowest price per share

Highest price per share

London Stock Exchange

11,000

13.9225

13.8300

14.0500

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Barclays on behalf of the Company is set out below.

Transaction Time

Time Zone

Volume

Price

Currency

Platform Code

Transaction reference number

08:10:34

GMT

135

13.84

GBP

XLON

592189931998733477

08:10:34

GMT

200

13.84

GBP

XLON

592189931998733476

08:10:34

GMT

272

13.84

GBP

XLON

592189931998733475

08:22:17

GMT

227

13.83

GBP

XLON

592189931998999228

08:46:50

GMT

242

13.88

GBP

XLON

606263682435336140

09:00:03

GMT

28

13.9

GBP

XLON

592189931999859900

09:00:03

GMT

100

13.9

GBP

XLON

592189931999859899

09:00:03

GMT

279

13.9

GBP

XLON

592189931999859897

09:43:22

GMT

92

13.93

GBP

XLON

606263682436536106

09:43:22

GMT

100

13.93

GBP

XLON

606263682436536105

10:30:13

GMT

666

13.97

GBP

XLON

592189932002023938

10:30:13

GMT

62

13.97

GBP

XLON

606263682437592975

10:30:13

GMT

151

13.97

GBP

XLON

606263682437592976

10:30:16

GMT

559

13.97

GBP

XLON

606263682437594946

11:48:27

GMT

33

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932003869450

11:48:27

GMT

100

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932003869451

11:48:27

GMT

288

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932003869452

11:59:06

GMT

95

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682439543452

11:59:06

GMT

118

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682439543453

12:21:11

GMT

61

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440054459

12:21:11

GMT

100

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440054460

12:22:09

GMT

37

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440073420

12:27:58

GMT

98

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440200647

12:29:53

GMT

41

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440240786

12:30:07

GMT

61

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440248670

12:30:07

GMT

192

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682440248669

13:00:58

GMT

580

13.98

GBP

XLON

592189932005604754

13:21:10

GMT

259

13.96

GBP

XLON

592189932006111573

13:49:46

GMT

202

14.02

GBP

XLON

592189932007073275

13:49:46

GMT

373

14.02

GBP

XLON

606263682442257797

14:08:37

GMT

79

14.05

GBP

XLON

592189932007682070

14:08:37

GMT

239

14.05

GBP

XLON

592189932007682071

14:23:00

GMT

211

14.05

GBP

XLON

606263682443285956

14:38:14

GMT

380

13.99

GBP

XLON

606263682443859879

14:44:04

GMT

211

13.97

GBP

XLON

606263682444064837

14:52:37

GMT

211

13.93

GBP

XLON

592189932009374115

14:57:20

GMT

210

13.91

GBP

XLON

592189932009530461

15:03:28

GMT

212

13.86

GBP

XLON

592189932009760981

15:11:46

GMT

12

13.86

GBP

XLON

592189932010038759

15:11:46

GMT

99

13.86

GBP

XLON

592189932010038762

15:11:46

GMT

100

13.86

GBP

XLON

592189932010038761

15:19:23

GMT

182

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932010293081

15:19:23

GMT

332

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932010293082

15:30:42

GMT

179

13.88

GBP

XLON

592189932010622350

15:30:42

GMT

274

13.88

GBP

XLON

592189932010622351

15:41:55

GMT

219

13.91

GBP

XLON

592189932010946899

15:52:46

GMT

198

13.89

GBP

XLON

592189932011275200

15:59:23

GMT

17

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682446326074

15:59:23

GMT

172

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682446326071

16:04:53

GMT

187

13.9

GBP

XLON

606263682446475072

16:09:16

GMT

158

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682446600101

16:09:16

GMT

195

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682446600100

16:09:16

GMT

428

13.89

GBP

XLON

606263682446600102

16:14:00

GMT

211

13.87

GBP

XLON

606263682446736117

16:24:37

GMT

533

13.88

GBP

XLON

592189932012266902

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