WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

24 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 10,777 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on 24 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 21,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,890,676 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:

24 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

10,777

14.3770

14.3100

14.4400

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

08:19:21

BST

315

14.37

GBP

XLON

606250927477309052

08:19:21

BST

503

14.37

GBP

XLON

606250927477309051

09:07:44

BST

22

14.34

GBP

XLON

606250927478338706

09:07:44

BST

186

14.34

GBP

XLON

606250927478338707

09:07:44

BST

208

14.35

GBP

XLON

592177177050458013

09:07:44

BST

295

14.34

GBP

XLON

592177177050458015

09:16:16

BST

192

14.34

GBP

XLON

606250927478511798

09:38:05

BST

118

14.31

GBP

XLON

606250927479002708

09:38:05

BST

191

14.31

GBP

XLON

606250927479002707

10:25:31

BST

5

14.35

GBP

XLON

592177177052311332

10:25:31

BST

54

14.35

GBP

XLON

606250927480080033

10:25:31

BST

185

14.35

GBP

XLON

592177177052311334

10:25:31

BST

200

14.35

GBP

XLON

592177177052311330

10:25:31

BST

261

14.35

GBP

XLON

606250927480080034

10:31:16

BST

249

14.37

GBP

XLON

592177177052445146

10:57:21

BST

204

14.37

GBP

XLON

592177177053032024

12:02:04

BST

212

14.35

GBP

XLON

592177177054523248

12:02:04

BST

299

14.35

GBP

XLON

606250927482144388

13:02:28

BST

59

14.37

GBP

XLON

606250927483540533

13:02:28

BST

144

14.37

GBP

XLON

606250927483540534

13:09:30

BST

210

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177056206638

13:12:13

BST

726

14.38

GBP

XLON

592177177056274922

13:12:13

BST

16

14.38

GBP

XLON

592177177056274925

14:02:53

BST

192

14.41

GBP

XLON

606250927485169159

14:02:54

BST

62

14.4

GBP

XLON

606250927485169262

14:02:54

BST

143

14.4

GBP

XLON

606250927485169264

14:02:54

BST

657

14.4

GBP

XLON

606250927485169263

14:13:47

BST

1

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177058086220

14:30:30

BST

79

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177058608281

14:46:29

BST

122

14.44

GBP

XLON

606250927486558216

14:46:31

BST

96

14.44

GBP

XLON

606250927486559474

14:51:26

BST

101

14.43

GBP

XLON

592177177059435141

14:51:26

BST

125

14.43

GBP

XLON

592177177059435140

14:51:26

BST

197

14.42

GBP

XLON

592177177059435142

14:57:47

BST

79

14.42

GBP

XLON

592177177059713867

14:57:47

BST

196

14.42

GBP

XLON

592177177059713869

14:57:47

BST

392

14.42

GBP

XLON

592177177059713868

14:57:47

BST

123

14.42

GBP

XLON

606250927487019548

15:00:23

BST

209

14.41

GBP

XLON

592177177059863768

15:07:47

BST

22

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177060222719

15:19:33

BST

206

14.4

GBP

XLON

592177177060741628

15:19:33

BST

206

14.4

GBP

XLON

592177177060741629

15:19:34

BST

53

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177060742401

15:19:47

BST

79

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177060753722

15:23:05

BST

166

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177060919260

15:23:05

BST

497

14.39

GBP

XLON

592177177060919262

16:05:07

BST

209

14.36

GBP

XLON

592177177062603128

16:05:07

BST

628

14.36

GBP

XLON

606250927489753192

16:05:07

BST

79

14.36

GBP

XLON

606250927489753204

16:05:07

BST

412

14.36

GBP

XLON

606250927489753205

16:13:51

BST

180

14.36

GBP

XLON

592177177062987280

16:14:04

BST

318

14.36

GBP

XLON

592177177062997466

16:14:06

BST

35

14.36

GBP

XLON

592177177062998695

16:29:53

BST

59

14.37

GBP

XLON

592177177063811405

Ends