WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

14 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 14 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 175,514 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,740,778 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:

14 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

13.9326

13.8600

14.0200

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

08:02:51

BST

380

13.95

GBP

XLON

592184254942087534

08:13:15

BST

299

14

GBP

XLON

592184254942324441

08:34:57

BST

252

13.95

GBP

XLON

606258005377024266

08:46:08

BST

276

13.91

GBP

XLON

606258005377254386

08:57:29

BST

319

13.91

GBP

XLON

606258005377489214

09:16:48

BST

251

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258005377935319

10:17:18

BST

100

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184254945216371

10:17:18

BST

276

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184254945216372

10:17:18

BST

294

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184254945216370

10:56:49

BST

212

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258005380123827

11:24:55

BST

1

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258005380715402

11:24:55

BST

35

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258005380715405

11:24:55

BST

500

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258005380715404

11:33:13

BST

141

13.86

GBP

XLON

606258005380892172

11:56:31

BST

7

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258005381384345

11:56:31

BST

294

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258005381384343

12:03:12

BST

63

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258005381522720

12:53:45

BST

196

13.89

GBP

XLON

592184254948642785

12:53:45

BST

196

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258005382492072

12:53:45

BST

196

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258005382492074

12:53:51

BST

231

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258005382493783

13:52:18

BST

25

13.92

GBP

XLON

606258005383771490

13:52:18

BST

126

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184254949999185

13:52:48

BST

17

13.93

GBP

XLON

606258005383782692

13:54:03

BST

528

13.93

GBP

XLON

592184254950041579

14:21:27

BST

19

13.94

GBP

XLON

606258005384527034

14:21:27

BST

30

13.94

GBP

XLON

606258005384527039

14:21:27

BST

31

13.94

GBP

XLON

606258005384527038

14:21:27

BST

38

13.94

GBP

XLON

606258005384527037

14:21:27

BST

88

13.94

GBP

XLON

606258005384527035

14:31:36

BST

72

13.93

GBP

XLON

592184254951103240

14:31:36

BST

134

13.93

GBP

XLON

592184254951103238

14:31:36

BST

195

13.93

GBP

XLON

606258005384810663

14:31:36

BST

206

13.93

GBP

XLON

592184254951103241

14:31:36

BST

210

13.93

GBP

XLON

606258005384810661

14:31:36

BST

266

13.93

GBP

XLON

606258005384810660

14:31:43

BST

192

13.94

GBP

XLON

592184254951106899

14:51:58

BST

195

13.95

GBP

XLON

592184254951929561

14:51:58

BST

601

13.95

GBP

XLON

592184254951929562

15:05:17

BST

392

13.91

GBP

XLON

606258005386095940

15:17:36

BST

50

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184254952911660

15:17:36

BST

97

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184254952911657

15:17:36

BST

100

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184254952911658

15:17:36

BST

192

13.92

GBP

XLON

606258005386517211

15:17:36

BST

200

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184254952911659

15:32:05

BST

92

13.92

GBP

XLON

606258005386974747

15:32:05

BST

318

13.92

GBP

XLON

606258005386974748

16:01:35

BST

203

13.95

GBP

XLON

592184254954448622

16:07:03

BST

31

13.96

GBP

XLON

592184254954653012

16:07:03

BST

142

13.96

GBP

XLON

592184254954653011

16:07:03

BST

15

13.96

GBP

XLON

606258005388162645

16:09:34

BST

64

13.97

GBP

XLON

592184254954747492

16:09:34

BST

165

13.97

GBP

XLON

592184254954747491

16:12:49

BST

27

13.98

GBP

XLON

606258005388363563

16:12:49

BST

40

14

GBP

XLON

606258005388363595

16:12:49

BST

145

14

GBP

XLON

606258005388363596

16:14:29

BST

33

14

GBP

XLON

592184254954930843

16:14:29

BST

34

14

GBP

XLON

592184254954930842

16:14:29

BST

128

14

GBP

XLON

592184254954930844

16:14:29

BST

35

14

GBP

XLON

592184254954930848

16:14:29

BST

46

14

GBP

XLON

592184254954930849

16:14:29

BST

8

14

GBP

XLON

606258005388425216

16:16:15

BST

14

14.02

GBP

XLON

592184254955015766

16:16:15

BST

39

14.02

GBP

XLON

592184254955015762

16:16:15

BST

700

14.02

GBP

XLON

592184254955015764

16:16:15

BST

24

14.02

GBP

XLON

606258005388505394

16:16:15

BST

26

14.02

GBP

XLON

606258005388505398

16:16:15

BST

115

14.02

GBP

XLON

606258005388505400

16:25:04

BST

33

14.02

GBP

XLON

606258005388954851

Ends