WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

18 March 2025

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 29 January 2025, of 10,989 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 18 March 2025 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 2,178,970 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 128,737,964 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:

18 March 2025

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

10,989

10.6414

10.5100

10.7500

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

08:07:57

GMT

84

10.52

GBP

XLON

620257099390664604

08:07:57

GMT

97

10.52

GBP

XLON

620257099390664603

08:08:00

GMT

25

10.52

GBP

XLON

606183350554984226

08:08:00

GMT

97

10.52

GBP

XLON

606183350554984225

08:08:00

GMT

127

10.52

GBP

XLON

606183350554984227

08:08:00

GMT

299

10.52

GBP

XLON

620257099390665677

08:08:00

GMT

256

10.51

GBP

XLON

620257099390665681

08:08:00

GMT

256

10.51

GBP

XLON

620257099390665685

08:08:00

GMT

45

10.51

GBP

XLON

606183350554984238

08:17:00

GMT

108

10.54

GBP

XLON

606183350555171589

08:17:00

GMT

281

10.54

GBP

XLON

606183350555171591

08:17:00

GMT

305

10.54

GBP

XLON

606183350555171595

08:17:00

GMT

105

10.54

GBP

XLON

620257099390866446

08:49:37

GMT

370

10.6

GBP

XLON

606183350555916654

08:49:45

GMT

224

10.64

GBP

XLON

606183350555920096

08:49:45

GMT

30

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099391672474

08:49:45

GMT

124

10.64

GBP

XLON

606183350555920100

08:49:45

GMT

194

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099391672473

08:52:55

GMT

61

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350555987004

08:52:55

GMT

129

10.63

GBP

XLON

620257099391745013

08:52:55

GMT

140

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350555987002

08:52:55

GMT

175

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350555987003

08:52:55

GMT

100

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350555987010

09:06:11

GMT

9

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099392047274

09:06:11

GMT

106

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099392047276

09:06:11

GMT

106

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099392047277

09:06:11

GMT

106

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099392047279

09:06:11

GMT

401

10.64

GBP

XLON

620257099392047275

09:06:11

GMT

78

10.64

GBP

XLON

606183350556264486

09:06:11

GMT

192

10.64

GBP

XLON

606183350556264487

09:06:12

GMT

112

10.64

GBP

XLON

606183350556264803

09:20:09

GMT

408

10.61

GBP

XLON

606183350556617233

09:20:09

GMT

210

10.61

GBP

XLON

620257099392428734

09:44:03

GMT

241

10.63

GBP

XLON

620257099392968609

09:44:03

GMT

287

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350557118651

09:44:03

GMT

287

10.63

GBP

XLON

620257099392968616

09:44:03

GMT

58

10.63

GBP

XLON

606183350557118658

09:52:06

GMT

114

10.61

GBP

XLON

606183350557263793

09:52:06

GMT

205

10.61

GBP

XLON

606183350557263794

10:01:10

GMT

98

10.6

GBP

XLON

620257099393304860

10:13:49

GMT

426

10.7

GBP

XLON

606183350557686554

10:13:49

GMT

229

10.7

GBP

XLON

606183350557686564

10:15:31

GMT

108

10.69

GBP

XLON

606183350557730591

10:40:10

GMT

11

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558203161

10:41:10

GMT

12

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558221204

10:42:10

GMT

11

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558241716

10:42:10

GMT

116

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558241718

10:42:10

GMT

116

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558241719

10:42:10

GMT

307

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558241717

10:42:10

GMT

92

10.71

GBP

XLON

606183350558241725

10:48:47

GMT

101

10.71

GBP

XLON

620257099394348095

10:48:47

GMT

258

10.71

GBP

XLON

620257099394348096

11:00:42

GMT

47

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099394636470

11:00:42

GMT

320

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099394636469

11:00:42

GMT

59

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099394636471

11:16:29

GMT

116

10.75

GBP

XLON

620257099395035123

11:16:29

GMT

141

10.75

GBP

XLON

620257099395035121

11:16:29

GMT

248

10.75

GBP

XLON

620257099395035122

11:24:33

GMT

116

10.74

GBP

XLON

606183350559212202

11:24:33

GMT

203

10.74

GBP

XLON

606183350559212203

11:31:45

GMT

6

10.72

GBP

XLON

620257099395378713

11:31:47

GMT

95

10.72

GBP

XLON

620257099395379982

11:31:48

GMT

218

10.72

GBP

XLON

620257099395379983

11:37:36

GMT

113

10.71

GBP

XLON

620257099395518375

11:50:44

GMT

79

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099395824168

11:50:44

GMT

113

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099395824173

11:50:44

GMT

123

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099395824172

11:50:44

GMT

151

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099395824169

11:50:44

GMT

174

10.7

GBP

XLON

606183350559769134

11:55:44

GMT

132

10.7

GBP

XLON

620257099395926712

12:16:57

GMT

98

10.72

GBP

XLON

620257099396352870

Ends