WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

17 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 10,683 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 17 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 208,197 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,708,095 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:

17 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

10,683

13.8213

13.7700

13.8600

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

08:03:24

BST

381

13.8

GBP

XLON

606259067058981314

08:12:47

BST

295

13.78

GBP

XLON

606259067059236069

08:28:51

BST

279

13.81

GBP

XLON

606259067059602214

09:15:11

BST

579

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067060908605

09:57:48

BST

188

13.83

GBP

XLON

606259067061985921

09:57:51

BST

100

13.82

GBP

XLON

606259067061987599

09:57:51

BST

199

13.82

GBP

XLON

606259067061987600

10:25:47

BST

205

13.83

GBP

XLON

592185316629937218

11:19:37

BST

61

13.85

GBP

XLON

592185316631233376

11:19:37

BST

120

13.85

GBP

XLON

592185316631233375

11:48:09

BST

60

13.85

GBP

XLON

592185316631876757

11:48:09

BST

128

13.85

GBP

XLON

592185316631876758

12:03:19

BST

178

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067064797296

12:03:19

BST

665

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067064797297

12:04:37

BST

208

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067064831857

12:04:37

BST

119

13.84

GBP

XLON

592185316632263937

12:04:38

BST

109

13.84

GBP

XLON

592185316632264081

12:11:17

BST

305

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067064965116

12:34:13

BST

296

13.86

GBP

XLON

606259067065467580

13:15:03

BST

421

13.84

GBP

XLON

592185316633840136

13:19:14

BST

230

13.84

GBP

XLON

592185316633952225

13:47:26

BST

207

13.83

GBP

XLON

592185316634702575

14:07:37

BST

191

13.84

GBP

XLON

592185316635248500

14:16:09

BST

101

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067067884051

14:16:09

BST

72

13.84

GBP

XLON

606259067067884057

14:16:10

BST

191

13.83

GBP

XLON

606259067067884543

14:16:10

BST

257

13.83

GBP

XLON

592185316635518079

14:32:22

BST

152

13.83

GBP

XLON

592185316636005982

14:32:23

BST

197

13.83

GBP

XLON

606259067068341132

14:32:23

BST

224

13.83

GBP

XLON

606259067068341226

14:53:39

BST

73

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316636751535

14:53:39

BST

377

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316636751536

14:57:16

BST

173

13.81

GBP

XLON

592185316636884314

14:57:16

BST

188

13.81

GBP

XLON

592185316636884313

15:05:07

BST

240

13.79

GBP

XLON

592185316637196093

15:19:41

BST

206

13.78

GBP

XLON

606259067069981281

15:19:41

BST

241

13.78

GBP

XLON

606259067069981282

15:27:33

BST

7

13.78

GBP

XLON

592185316638004042

15:27:33

BST

193

13.78

GBP

XLON

592185316638004041

15:35:01

BST

124

13.77

GBP

XLON

606259067070485456

15:35:01

BST

222

13.77

GBP

XLON

606259067070485457

15:58:51

BST

206

13.8

GBP

XLON

606259067071257416

16:03:13

BST

836

13.81

GBP

XLON

592185316639272971

16:03:13

BST

62

13.81

GBP

XLON

606259067071433010

16:11:46

BST

89

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316639657490

16:12:28

BST

7

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316639693908

16:14:00

BST

161

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316639770249

16:14:00

BST

191

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316639770251

16:14:00

BST

369

13.82

GBP

XLON

592185316639770250

Ends