WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

16 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 16 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 197,514 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,718,778 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:

16 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

13.8614

13.7800

13.9100

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

08:07:32

BST

112

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258713169498004

08:07:32

BST

347

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258713169498005

08:16:00

BST

295

13.78

GBP

XLON

592184962730108338

08:35:45

BST

66

13.82

GBP

XLON

606258713170292263

08:35:45

BST

216

13.82

GBP

XLON

606258713170292264

09:08:06

BST

202

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258713171095196

09:12:14

BST

370

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258713171190057

09:25:15

BST

320

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184962732017092

09:55:40

BST

299

13.81

GBP

XLON

606258713172213859

11:03:46

BST

85

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258713173851618

11:03:46

BST

100

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258713173851617

11:03:46

BST

505

13.79

GBP

XLON

592184962734529988

12:06:22

BST

82

13.83

GBP

XLON

592184962735896282

12:06:22

BST

94

13.83

GBP

XLON

592184962735896283

12:26:02

BST

196

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184962736302859

12:53:18

BST

216

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184962736911804

12:58:45

BST

103

13.87

GBP

XLON

592184962737047470

13:07:02

BST

210

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258713176384851

13:25:03

BST

66

13.9

GBP

XLON

592184962737673280

13:25:03

BST

120

13.9

GBP

XLON

592184962737673279

13:33:09

BST

59

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713176972823

13:33:09

BST

120

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713176972821

13:43:35

BST

247

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713177225747

13:43:50

BST

319

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713177230672

13:43:50

BST

368

13.91

GBP

XLON

592184962738159436

13:44:31

BST

175

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713177245936

14:09:43

BST

198

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713177879132

14:09:43

BST

202

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713177879131

14:20:58

BST

29

13.84

GBP

XLON

606258713178175048

14:20:58

BST

214

13.84

GBP

XLON

606258713178175049

14:27:00

BST

62

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713178337240

14:27:10

BST

78

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713178342039

14:40:28

BST

31

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713178833095

14:45:44

BST

32

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713179031286

14:45:44

BST

215

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713179031285

14:45:44

BST

709

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258713179031284

14:58:58

BST

6

13.89

GBP

XLON

592184962740615919

14:58:58

BST

237

13.89

GBP

XLON

592184962740615920

15:13:34

BST

180

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258713180046251

15:13:34

BST

448

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258713180046250

15:22:33

BST

459

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184962741467067

15:32:32

BST

207

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713180674911

15:32:32

BST

244

13.85

GBP

XLON

606258713180674910

15:52:38

BST

27

13.86

GBP

XLON

592184962742605264

15:52:38

BST

575

13.86

GBP

XLON

592184962742605265

16:12:34

BST

52

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258713182166325

16:12:34

BST

155

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258713182166327

16:12:34

BST

768

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258713182166326

16:17:09

BST

243

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258713182390166

16:26:21

BST

337

13.86

GBP

XLON

606258713182848496

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