WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

30 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 30 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 65,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,847,227 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:

30 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

14.7486

14.6700

14.9000

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

08:06:31

BST

434

14.9

GBP

XLON

592179300425301705

08:17:47

BST

322

14.84

GBP

XLON

592179300425615534

08:29:54

BST

104

14.81

GBP

XLON

606253050871297137

08:29:54

BST

148

14.81

GBP

XLON

606253050871297138

09:15:35

BST

4

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300427143176

09:15:35

BST

135

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300427143177

09:15:35

BST

155

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300427143175

09:15:35

BST

171

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300427143174

09:15:35

BST

216

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300427143178

09:29:57

BST

51

14.72

GBP

XLON

606253050872844653

09:29:57

BST

169

14.72

GBP

XLON

606253050872844654

09:30:08

BST

71

14.71

GBP

XLON

606253050872852597

09:30:08

BST

122

14.71

GBP

XLON

606253050872852649

10:11:56

BST

310

14.79

GBP

XLON

606253050873840340

10:17:32

BST

276

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050873973979

10:41:37

BST

31

14.77

GBP

XLON

592179300429502742

10:41:37

BST

220

14.77

GBP

XLON

592179300429502741

11:11:25

BST

282

14.79

GBP

XLON

606253050875384946

11:39:56

BST

322

14.76

GBP

XLON

606253050876020662

12:00:39

BST

346

14.77

GBP

XLON

606253050876447645

12:58:38

BST

41

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300432727681

12:58:38

BST

154

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300432727682

13:14:06

BST

45

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050877993995

13:14:06

BST

101

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050877993997

13:14:06

BST

125

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050877993994

13:14:06

BST

125

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050877993996

13:14:06

BST

243

14.78

GBP

XLON

606253050877993993

13:30:18

BST

106

14.76

GBP

XLON

592179300433450421

13:30:18

BST

254

14.76

GBP

XLON

592179300433450422

14:15:37

BST

355

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300434736520

14:15:37

BST

400

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300434736519

14:30:27

BST

95

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300435182368

14:30:27

BST

277

14.79

GBP

XLON

592179300435182369

14:39:12

BST

191

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300435565706

14:41:15

BST

303

14.74

GBP

XLON

592179300435651441

14:56:39

BST

15

14.76

GBP

XLON

606253050881252564

14:56:39

BST

204

14.76

GBP

XLON

606253050881252565

14:56:39

BST

332

14.75

GBP

XLON

592179300436447951

15:10:27

BST

221

14.71

GBP

XLON

592179300437040144

15:10:27

BST

302

14.71

GBP

XLON

606253050881856526

15:28:53

BST

219

14.7

GBP

XLON

592179300437719712

15:28:53

BST

344

14.7

GBP

XLON

606253050882552332

15:39:16

BST

70

14.71

GBP

XLON

606253050882942595

15:39:16

BST

130

14.71

GBP

XLON

606253050882942596

15:50:06

BST

22

14.7

GBP

XLON

592179300438504493

15:50:06

BST

103

14.7

GBP

XLON

606253050883352751

15:50:06

BST

106

14.7

GBP

XLON

606253050883352750

15:50:06

BST

187

14.7

GBP

XLON

592179300438504494

15:50:50

BST

325

14.69

GBP

XLON

606253050883381656

15:57:35

BST

449

14.67

GBP

XLON

606253050883651995

16:17:16

BST

94

14.68

GBP

XLON

606253050884496681

16:17:16

BST

125

14.68

GBP

XLON

606253050884496680

16:19:39

BST

187

14.67

GBP

XLON

592179300439742616

16:19:39

BST

339

14.67

GBP

XLON

592179300439742615

16:19:39

BST

522

14.67

GBP

XLON

606253050884616845

Ends