WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

10 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 10,737 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 10 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 153,514 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,762,778 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:

10 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

10,737

13.9527

13.9100

14.0600

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

08:02:54

BST

381

14.06

GBP

XLON

606256589796438329

08:30:00

BST

363

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839364476647

08:33:13

BST

239

13.92

GBP

XLON

592182839364567238

09:00:22

BST

100

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589797884572

09:00:22

BST

118

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589797884573

09:16:10

BST

189

13.91

GBP

XLON

606256589798285274

09:16:10

BST

200

13.91

GBP

XLON

592182839365707666

09:46:26

BST

304

13.94

GBP

XLON

592182839366474868

10:08:28

BST

303

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589799507475

10:43:54

BST

46

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355150

10:43:54

BST

149

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355152

10:43:54

BST

300

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589800355151

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839369897026

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196788

12:06:37

BST

215

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196789

12:06:37

BST

245

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802196786

12:07:24

BST

1

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216605

12:07:24

BST

58

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216606

12:07:24

BST

218

13.97

GBP

XLON

606256589802216604

12:18:42

BST

121

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370175646

12:20:18

BST

73

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370212342

12:20:18

BST

88

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839370212343

12:53:49

BST

323

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839370955014

13:30:01

BST

93

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589804020730

13:30:01

BST

107

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589804020735

13:30:02

BST

369

13.92

GBP

XLON

606256589804025640

13:40:12

BST

293

13.92

GBP

XLON

592182839372275946

14:28:25

BST

22

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883434

14:28:25

BST

34

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883432

14:28:25

BST

79

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373883433

14:28:25

BST

55

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805906139

14:29:10

BST

13

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928291

14:29:10

BST

21

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928292

14:29:10

BST

83

13.99

GBP

XLON

606256589805928293

14:29:10

BST

76

13.99

GBP

XLON

592182839373907441

14:34:01

BST

37

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131894

14:34:01

BST

73

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131891

14:34:01

BST

100

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131892

14:34:01

BST

200

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131893

14:34:01

BST

411

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131896

14:34:01

BST

53

13.98

GBP

XLON

592182839374131909

14:40:33

BST

2

13.96

GBP

XLON

606256589806418320

14:40:33

BST

428

13.96

GBP

XLON

606256589806418339

15:02:36

BST

211

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839375364807

15:02:36

BST

211

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589807290052

15:02:36

BST

423

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589807290053

15:14:23

BST

412

13.97

GBP

XLON

592182839375836842

15:31:30

BST

8

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839376471559

15:31:30

BST

66

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324651

15:31:30

BST

100

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324650

15:31:30

BST

204

13.95

GBP

XLON

592182839376471558

15:31:30

BST

218

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589808324649

15:48:19

BST

117

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839377058569

15:48:19

BST

187

13.93

GBP

XLON

606256589808873170

15:48:19

BST

250

13.93

GBP

XLON

592182839377058568

15:54:23

BST

459

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589809081318

16:16:19

BST

217

13.95

GBP

XLON

606256589809963459

16:18:29

BST

80

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810054985

16:19:09

BST

95

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082053

16:19:09

BST

218

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082054

16:19:09

BST

248

13.94

GBP

XLON

606256589810082056

Ends