WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

27 September 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 27 September 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 54,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,858,227 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:

27 September 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

14.8459

14.7500

14.9100

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

08:22:32

BST

244

14.85

GBP

XLON

606251989181582899

08:22:32

BST

295

14.85

GBP

XLON

606251989181582898

08:22:32

BST

337

14.85

GBP

XLON

606251989181582897

08:22:37

BST

197

14.85

GBP

XLON

592178238737131531

09:16:13

BST

176

14.84

GBP

XLON

606251989182902454

09:16:13

BST

330

14.84

GBP

XLON

606251989182902453

09:16:14

BST

194

14.83

GBP

XLON

592178238738391492

09:16:14

BST

207

14.83

GBP

XLON

606251989182902993

09:57:29

BST

335

14.86

GBP

XLON

606251989183924813

11:02:08

BST

194

14.9

GBP

XLON

606251989185538426

11:02:10

BST

37

14.89

GBP

XLON

592178238740955185

11:02:10

BST

193

14.89

GBP

XLON

606251989185538767

11:02:10

BST

398

14.89

GBP

XLON

592178238740955186

11:28:29

BST

285

14.86

GBP

XLON

592178238741569637

11:44:05

BST

195

14.84

GBP

XLON

592178238741924678

11:45:56

BST

76

14.84

GBP

XLON

592178238741963389

11:47:51

BST

52

14.84

GBP

XLON

592178238742006003

12:40:56

BST

96

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989187819732

12:40:56

BST

163

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989187819733

12:40:56

BST

200

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989187819734

12:40:56

BST

200

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989187819735

12:46:28

BST

74

14.77

GBP

XLON

592178238743280890

12:46:28

BST

181

14.77

GBP

XLON

592178238743280891

13:03:28

BST

115

14.75

GBP

XLON

606251989188295879

13:03:28

BST

209

14.75

GBP

XLON

606251989188295878

13:53:01

BST

42

14.81

GBP

XLON

606251989189507775

13:53:01

BST

45

14.81

GBP

XLON

606251989189507774

13:53:01

BST

125

14.81

GBP

XLON

606251989189507773

13:53:01

BST

556

14.82

GBP

XLON

606251989189507771

14:18:31

BST

187

14.79

GBP

XLON

592178238745528402

14:23:22

BST

88

14.78

GBP

XLON

592178238745674019

14:23:22

BST

103

14.78

GBP

XLON

606251989190382841

14:23:22

BST

105

14.78

GBP

XLON

592178238745674020

14:23:22

BST

113

14.78

GBP

XLON

606251989190382839

14:23:22

BST

125

14.78

GBP

XLON

606251989190382840

14:39:29

BST

223

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989190981894

14:39:29

BST

282

14.8

GBP

XLON

606251989190981893

14:59:57

BST

111

14.82

GBP

XLON

592178238747053426

14:59:57

BST

114

14.82

GBP

XLON

592178238747053427

14:59:57

BST

452

14.81

GBP

XLON

606251989191788875

15:35:09

BST

102

14.91

GBP

XLON

606251989193231414

15:35:09

BST

375

14.91

GBP

XLON

606251989193231413

15:35:09

BST

424

14.91

GBP

XLON

606251989193231412

15:35:09

BST

101

14.91

GBP

XLON

592178238748469032

15:35:09

BST

140

14.91

GBP

XLON

592178238748469031

15:41:25

BST

295

14.9

GBP

XLON

606251989193470976

15:58:21

BST

72

14.91

GBP

XLON

606251989194137419

15:58:21

BST

123

14.91

GBP

XLON

606251989194137420

15:58:21

BST

195

14.91

GBP

XLON

592178238749358379

15:58:22

BST

148

14.9

GBP

XLON

606251989194137758

15:58:22

BST

152

14.9

GBP

XLON

606251989194137757

16:13:07

BST

236

14.86

GBP

XLON

606251989194801504

16:13:07

BST

49

14.86

GBP

XLON

606251989194801505

16:13:07

BST

193

14.86

GBP

XLON

592178238750010660

16:13:07

BST

193

14.86

GBP

XLON

592178238750010661

16:13:07

BST

226

14.86

GBP

XLON

606251989194801506

16:23:19

BST

81

14.88

GBP

XLON

592178238750555905

16:23:19

BST

241

14.88

GBP

XLON

592178238750555904

Ends