WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

04 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 04 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 109,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,805,230 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:

04 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

14.3222

14.2300

14.3800

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

08:14:52

BST

77

14.23

GBP

XLON

592180715997047450

08:14:52

BST

669

14.23

GBP

XLON

592180715997047451

08:46:54

BST

439

14.26

GBP

XLON

592180715997787216

08:58:12

BST

273

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466445691789

09:27:22

BST

99

14.33

GBP

XLON

592180715998716568

09:27:22

BST

229

14.33

GBP

XLON

592180715998716567

09:47:33

BST

274

14.3

GBP

XLON

606254466446802175

10:53:52

BST

362

14.3

GBP

XLON

606254466448255803

11:25:33

BST

431

14.29

GBP

XLON

606254466448978026

11:54:56

BST

20

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466449554271

11:54:56

BST

192

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466449554270

12:03:04

BST

459

14.27

GBP

XLON

592180716002327596

12:40:45

BST

32

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466450460539

12:40:45

BST

51

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466450460541

12:40:45

BST

165

14.27

GBP

XLON

606254466450460540

12:59:36

BST

61

14.29

GBP

XLON

592180716003476038

12:59:36

BST

66

14.29

GBP

XLON

606254466450809261

12:59:36

BST

139

14.29

GBP

XLON

606254466450809262

12:59:36

BST

185

14.29

GBP

XLON

592180716003476039

13:14:22

BST

208

14.29

GBP

XLON

606254466451118096

13:29:57

BST

116

14.29

GBP

XLON

592180716004171434

13:29:57

BST

304

14.29

GBP

XLON

592180716004171435

13:42:32

BST

222

14.32

GBP

XLON

606254466451972494

14:06:03

BST

10

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466452743139

14:06:03

BST

207

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466452743140

14:06:03

BST

247

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466452743138

14:20:06

BST

200

14.37

GBP

XLON

592180716005989007

14:20:06

BST

229

14.37

GBP

XLON

606254466453165565

14:31:18

BST

353

14.33

GBP

XLON

606254466453531109

14:54:07

BST

190

14.35

GBP

XLON

592180716007354969

14:54:07

BST

245

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466454450194

14:54:07

BST

329

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466454450195

14:54:07

BST

129

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466454450213

15:08:08

BST

51

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466455090230

15:08:38

BST

135

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466455107732

15:09:20

BST

341

14.36

GBP

XLON

606254466455140812

15:20:03

BST

374

14.37

GBP

XLON

592180716008503495

15:37:07

BST

17

14.34

GBP

XLON

592180716009144860

15:37:07

BST

746

14.34

GBP

XLON

592180716009144861

15:47:35

BST

9

14.34

GBP

XLON

592180716009513398

15:47:35

BST

338

14.34

GBP

XLON

592180716009513399

16:06:19

BST

106

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466457103051

16:06:19

BST

194

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466457103052

16:06:19

BST

364

14.38

GBP

XLON

606254466457103050

16:13:49

BST

91

14.37

GBP

XLON

592180716010462579

16:13:49

BST

194

14.37

GBP

XLON

592180716010462577

16:13:49

BST

204

14.37

GBP

XLON

606254466457376483

16:13:49

BST

245

14.37

GBP

XLON

592180716010462576

16:19:26

BST

88

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466457599447

16:19:53

BST

48

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466457617113

16:20:20

BST

68

14.35

GBP

XLON

606254466457645672

16:24:05

BST

20

14.34

GBP

XLON

606254466457833889

16:24:15

BST

155

14.34

GBP

XLON

606254466457839787

Ends