WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

08 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 08 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 131,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,783,230 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:

08 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

14.1035

14.0000

14.1700

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

08:09:03

BST

182

14.17

GBP

XLON

592182131578014951

08:09:03

BST

390

14.17

GBP

XLON

592182131578014950

08:18:30

BST

296

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131578335458

08:52:36

BST

16

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882022879543

08:52:36

BST

334

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882022879545

09:02:59

BST

269

14.17

GBP

XLON

592182131579704172

09:12:05

BST

218

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882023448582

09:29:54

BST

319

14.13

GBP

XLON

606255882023957441

10:09:36

BST

228

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882025011514

10:35:39

BST

191

14.17

GBP

XLON

606255882025650004

10:57:55

BST

187

14.17

GBP

XLON

606255882026145458

11:24:36

BST

124

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882026740913

11:24:36

BST

1

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882026740935

11:24:36

BST

1

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882026740937

11:24:36

BST

4

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882026740936

11:24:36

BST

5

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882026740934

11:39:21

BST

5

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882027041431

11:39:21

BST

83

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882027041428

11:39:21

BST

187

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882027041429

11:39:21

BST

192

14.16

GBP

XLON

592182131583831656

11:39:21

BST

201

14.16

GBP

XLON

606255882027041430

12:10:25

BST

100

14.14

GBP

XLON

592182131584523950

12:10:25

BST

294

14.14

GBP

XLON

592182131584523951

12:23:07

BST

5

14.12

GBP

XLON

592182131584800334

12:23:36

BST

100

14.12

GBP

XLON

592182131584812034

12:23:36

BST

100

14.12

GBP

XLON

592182131584812035

12:23:36

BST

120

14.12

GBP

XLON

592182131584812036

12:38:47

BST

5

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882028270909

12:38:47

BST

5

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882028270910

12:38:47

BST

95

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882028270907

12:38:47

BST

100

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882028270908

12:39:38

BST

83

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882028288676

13:10:27

BST

224

14.11

GBP

XLON

606255882028907680

13:27:31

BST

5

14.08

GBP

XLON

606255882029266242

13:27:31

BST

36

14.08

GBP

XLON

606255882029266243

13:27:31

BST

57

14.08

GBP

XLON

606255882029266244

13:27:31

BST

112

14.08

GBP

XLON

606255882029266241

13:27:31

BST

192

14.08

GBP

XLON

592182131586208511

13:36:58

BST

165

14.06

GBP

XLON

592182131586454751

13:37:06

BST

66

14.06

GBP

XLON

592182131586458810

14:06:31

BST

13

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182131587278794

14:06:31

BST

211

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182131587278796

14:06:31

BST

228

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182131587278795

14:11:06

BST

288

14.08

GBP

XLON

592182131587415294

14:18:00

BST

271

14.08

GBP

XLON

592182131587602207

14:32:42

BST

314

14.06

GBP

XLON

606255882030987916

14:52:03

BST

42

14.06

GBP

XLON

606255882031678778

14:52:03

BST

100

14.06

GBP

XLON

606255882031678777

14:52:03

BST

524

14.06

GBP

XLON

606255882031678776

14:57:30

BST

100

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182131589019406

14:57:30

BST

122

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182131589019405

14:57:30

BST

173

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182131589019407

15:10:27

BST

404

14.04

GBP

XLON

592182131589555066

15:22:35

BST

383

14

GBP

XLON

592182131590007681

15:37:35

BST

76

14

GBP

XLON

592182131590540928

15:52:19

BST

223

14.04

GBP

XLON

606255882033827559

16:03:25

BST

235

14.08

GBP

XLON

606255882034216731

16:07:59

BST

23

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683224

16:07:59

BST

35

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683218

16:07:59

BST

112

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683221

16:07:59

BST

200

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683219

16:07:59

BST

343

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683223

16:07:59

BST

565

14.1

GBP

XLON

592182131591683225

16:07:59

BST

207

14.1

GBP

XLON

606255882034396337

16:24:05

BST

123

14.09

GBP

XLON

606255882035131376

16:24:05

BST

388

14.09

GBP

XLON

606255882035131377

Ends