WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

09 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 09 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 142,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,772,230 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:

09 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

14.0871

14.0400

14.1400

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

08:10:04

BST

166

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235917458883

08:10:04

BST

17

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235917458884

08:16:34

BST

562

14.08

GBP

XLON

592182485473986604

08:42:06

BST

75

14.08

GBP

XLON

606256235918190253

08:42:06

BST

131

14.08

GBP

XLON

606256235918190254

08:42:06

BST

131

14.08

GBP

XLON

606256235918190255

08:59:46

BST

331

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235918571055

09:21:49

BST

28

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235919116246

09:21:49

BST

181

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235919116247

09:21:49

BST

402

14.11

GBP

XLON

592182485475588660

10:16:35

BST

482

14.13

GBP

XLON

606256235920315600

10:18:36

BST

215

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235920365546

10:25:11

BST

304

14.14

GBP

XLON

606256235920522840

11:48:26

BST

89

14.11

GBP

XLON

592182485479111718

11:48:26

BST

125

14.11

GBP

XLON

592182485479111719

11:48:26

BST

214

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235922434326

11:48:26

BST

233

14.11

GBP

XLON

606256235922434325

11:52:51

BST

97

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182485479226547

11:52:51

BST

117

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182485479226548

12:24:06

BST

200

14.1

GBP

XLON

606256235923241507

12:39:45

BST

319

14.08

GBP

XLON

606256235923602319

13:31:40

BST

41

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235924835894

13:31:40

BST

207

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485481685758

13:31:40

BST

207

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485481685759

13:31:40

BST

207

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485481685760

13:31:40

BST

363

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235924835896

13:42:16

BST

89

14.05

GBP

XLON

592182485481995706

13:42:16

BST

128

14.05

GBP

XLON

592182485481995705

13:54:01

BST

193

14.04

GBP

XLON

606256235925452036

14:35:25

BST

219

14.06

GBP

XLON

606256235926723145

14:40:31

BST

14

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235926907926

14:40:31

BST

171

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235926907925

14:47:01

BST

8

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485484168215

14:47:01

BST

98

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485484168214

14:47:01

BST

100

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485484168213

14:50:01

BST

682

14.05

GBP

XLON

592182485484300274

14:50:01

BST

2

14.05

GBP

XLON

606256235927285880

14:50:01

BST

298

14.05

GBP

XLON

606256235927285889

15:18:54

BST

212

14.13

GBP

XLON

592182485485568190

15:19:50

BST

950

14.12

GBP

XLON

606256235928512574

15:19:53

BST

22

14.12

GBP

XLON

592182485485612524

15:36:53

BST

33

14.1

GBP

XLON

606256235929181973

15:36:53

BST

181

14.1

GBP

XLON

606256235929181974

15:38:21

BST

358

14.09

GBP

XLON

592182485486385466

16:08:26

BST

11

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235930430617

16:08:26

BST

25

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487657597

16:08:26

BST

33

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487657598

16:08:26

BST

78

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487657599

16:08:26

BST

188

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487657600

16:12:20

BST

81

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487829722

16:12:20

BST

198

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485487829721

16:15:15

BST

302

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235930730331

16:15:15

BST

437

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235930730332

16:15:15

BST

360

14.07

GBP

XLON

606256235930730340

16:26:07

BST

85

14.07

GBP

XLON

592182485488563394

Ends