WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

21 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 21 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 230,197 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,686,095 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:

21 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

14.0706

14.0000

14.1500

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

08:21:13

BST

634

14.14

GBP

XLON

606260482638409790

08:21:13

BST

73

14.14

GBP

XLON

592186732202630756

08:21:18

BST

2

14.14

GBP

XLON

592186732202632134

08:29:43

BST

77

14.15

GBP

XLON

592186732202816439

08:29:43

BST

150

14.15

GBP

XLON

592186732202816440

08:52:08

BST

5

14.12

GBP

XLON

606260482639026914

08:52:08

BST

100

14.12

GBP

XLON

606260482639026912

08:52:08

BST

100

14.12

GBP

XLON

606260482639026913

09:15:59

BST

214

14.1

GBP

XLON

606260482639491505

09:21:15

BST

460

14.13

GBP

XLON

606260482639599268

09:30:17

BST

65

14.13

GBP

XLON

592186732204116870

09:35:21

BST

238

14.13

GBP

XLON

592186732204231615

09:58:59

BST

288

14.09

GBP

XLON

592186732204728140

10:16:43

BST

88

14.07

GBP

XLON

592186732205118584

10:16:43

BST

273

14.07

GBP

XLON

592186732205118585

10:52:55

BST

261

14.05

GBP

XLON

606260482641575948

11:38:07

BST

180

14.03

GBP

XLON

592186732206941906

11:38:07

BST

265

14.03

GBP

XLON

606260482642480342

11:58:19

BST

202

14.02

GBP

XLON

606260482642891559

12:12:04

BST

295

14.04

GBP

XLON

592186732207671521

12:37:11

BST

181

14

GBP

XLON

592186732208172912

12:37:11

BST

283

14

GBP

XLON

606260482643639126

13:25:24

BST

85

14.03

GBP

XLON

592186732209145725

13:25:24

BST

218

14.03

GBP

XLON

606260482644562426

13:25:24

BST

439

14.03

GBP

XLON

592186732209145726

13:35:09

BST

291

14.02

GBP

XLON

606260482644778626

14:01:16

BST

175

14.01

GBP

XLON

592186732210037429

14:01:16

BST

243

14.01

GBP

XLON

606260482645400879

14:34:57

BST

15

14.08

GBP

XLON

606260482646306133

14:34:57

BST

107

14.08

GBP

XLON

606260482646306137

14:34:57

BST

179

14.08

GBP

XLON

606260482646306136

14:34:57

BST

512

14.08

GBP

XLON

606260482646306135

14:34:57

BST

149

14.08

GBP

XLON

592186732210994332

14:53:53

BST

133

14.09

GBP

XLON

592186732211708972

14:53:53

BST

144

14.09

GBP

XLON

592186732211708971

14:53:53

BST

288

14.09

GBP

XLON

592186732211708970

15:12:46

BST

189

14.08

GBP

XLON

606260482647737902

15:19:16

BST

195

14.09

GBP

XLON

592186732212732847

15:19:16

BST

640

14.09

GBP

XLON

606260482647953880

15:19:16

BST

15

14.08

GBP

XLON

592186732212732853

15:46:01

BST

110

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732213687090

15:46:01

BST

121

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732213687091

15:46:01

BST

201

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732213687088

15:46:01

BST

201

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482648861173

15:46:01

BST

243

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482648861172

16:02:04

BST

42

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482649449537

16:02:28

BST

140

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482649465719

16:02:28

BST

182

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732214323451

16:02:28

BST

245

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732214323450

16:19:52

BST

665

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732215125737

16:19:52

BST

135

14.06

GBP

XLON

592186732215125749

16:22:22

BST

31

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482650388683

16:22:22

BST

100

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482650388684

16:22:22

BST

133

14.06

GBP

XLON

606260482650388685

Ends