WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

24 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 24 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 263,197 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,653,095 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:

24 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

13.9613

13.8900

14.0300

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

08:10:31

BST

82

14

GBP

XLON

592187793887370794

08:18:31

BST

249

14.02

GBP

XLON

606261544326879520

08:18:31

BST

337

14.02

GBP

XLON

606261544326879519

08:29:32

BST

49

13.99

GBP

XLON

592187793887864804

08:29:32

BST

160

13.99

GBP

XLON

592187793887864805

09:07:52

BST

254

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261544327974484

09:07:52

BST

266

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261544327974483

09:24:18

BST

273

14.03

GBP

XLON

592187793889207294

09:30:29

BST

44

14.03

GBP

XLON

592187793889370028

09:30:29

BST

168

14.03

GBP

XLON

592187793889370029

09:49:01

BST

281

14.02

GBP

XLON

592187793889875954

10:49:01

BST

503

14

GBP

XLON

606261544330267138

10:55:17

BST

91

13.99

GBP

XLON

592187793891400513

10:55:17

BST

94

13.99

GBP

XLON

592187793891400512

11:22:19

BST

131

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261544330951960

11:22:19

BST

139

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261544330951959

11:52:02

BST

331

13.97

GBP

XLON

606261544331498490

12:19:13

BST

180

14

GBP

XLON

592187793893073348

12:20:41

BST

197

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261544332003673

12:20:41

BST

234

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261544332003672

12:53:00

BST

59

13.96

GBP

XLON

592187793893696318

12:53:00

BST

128

13.96

GBP

XLON

592187793893696317

12:57:26

BST

68

13.95

GBP

XLON

606261544332632285

13:02:19

BST

133

13.95

GBP

XLON

606261544332734339

13:04:40

BST

174

13.95

GBP

XLON

592187793893931592

13:18:53

BST

299

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261544333053770

13:30:29

BST

220

13.97

GBP

XLON

606261544333309058

13:50:36

BST

173

13.95

GBP

XLON

592187793895040306

13:50:36

BST

221

13.95

GBP

XLON

592187793895040305

14:30:06

BST

195

14

GBP

XLON

592187793896089833

14:30:06

BST

673

14

GBP

XLON

606261544334795301

14:38:11

BST

136

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261544335075871

14:45:21

BST

40

13.97

GBP

XLON

592187793896660031

14:45:21

BST

123

13.97

GBP

XLON

592187793896660029

14:45:21

BST

200

13.97

GBP

XLON

592187793896660030

14:50:28

BST

219

13.95

GBP

XLON

606261544335512051

14:59:28

BST

220

13.93

GBP

XLON

606261544335854324

15:05:53

BST

256

13.94

GBP

XLON

592187793897459205

15:09:58

BST

89

13.93

GBP

XLON

606261544336205890

15:09:58

BST

131

13.93

GBP

XLON

606261544336205889

15:16:14

BST

220

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544336420557

15:21:01

BST

80

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544336571908

15:21:01

BST

140

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544336571907

15:28:52

BST

250

13.91

GBP

XLON

592187793898249674

15:41:22

BST

193

13.89

GBP

XLON

606261544337236176

15:41:22

BST

271

13.89

GBP

XLON

592187793898691831

15:50:49

BST

196

13.92

GBP

XLON

606261544337597901

15:50:49

BST

220

13.92

GBP

XLON

592187793899075226

16:02:19

BST

190

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544338016753

16:09:13

BST

201

13.91

GBP

XLON

592187793899803611

16:09:13

BST

348

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544338281402

16:21:26

BST

22

13.92

GBP

XLON

606261544338794895

16:21:26

BST

554

13.92

GBP

XLON

606261544338795358

16:22:26

BST

295

13.91

GBP

XLON

606261544338838563

Ends