WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

15 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 15 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 186,514 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,729,778 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:

15 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

13.8577

13.7900

13.9500

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

08:05:06

BST

379

13.89

GBP

XLON

606258359271745011

08:10:45

BST

318

13.95

GBP

XLON

606258359271891989

08:30:48

BST

96

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184608837591504

08:30:48

BST

107

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184608837591505

08:45:25

BST

206

13.86

GBP

XLON

592184608838014025

09:11:28

BST

539

13.9

GBP

XLON

606258359273542278

09:29:00

BST

300

13.83

GBP

XLON

606258359274031753

10:05:27

BST

117

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258359274955362

10:05:27

BST

173

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258359274955363

10:30:31

BST

13

13.83

GBP

XLON

606258359275539868

10:30:31

BST

170

13.83

GBP

XLON

606258359275539867

10:30:31

BST

199

13.83

GBP

XLON

606258359275539866

10:59:42

BST

239

13.83

GBP

XLON

592184608841608826

11:24:47

BST

47

13.82

GBP

XLON

592184608842251551

11:24:47

BST

169

13.82

GBP

XLON

592184608842251552

11:51:57

BST

82

13.83

GBP

XLON

592184608842882664

11:51:57

BST

286

13.83

GBP

XLON

592184608842882665

12:26:11

BST

50

13.82

GBP

XLON

606258359278171665

12:26:59

BST

279

13.82

GBP

XLON

606258359278188313

13:05:27

BST

202

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258359279075575

13:15:45

BST

184

13.8

GBP

XLON

606258359279323889

13:24:48

BST

32

13.79

GBP

XLON

606258359279546627

13:24:48

BST

41

13.79

GBP

XLON

592184608845158147

13:24:48

BST

100

13.79

GBP

XLON

592184608845158144

13:24:48

BST

100

13.79

GBP

XLON

592184608845158145

13:24:48

BST

100

13.79

GBP

XLON

592184608845158146

13:24:48

BST

155

13.79

GBP

XLON

606258359279546626

13:51:21

BST

11

13.81

GBP

XLON

592184608845926562

13:51:21

BST

62

13.81

GBP

XLON

606258359280270893

13:51:21

BST

88

13.81

GBP

XLON

592184608845926564

13:51:21

BST

94

13.81

GBP

XLON

592184608845926563

13:51:21

BST

262

13.81

GBP

XLON

606258359280270894

14:21:03

BST

196

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184608846804552

14:39:56

BST

120

13.89

GBP

XLON

592184608847542798

14:39:56

BST

802

13.89

GBP

XLON

592184608847542799

14:55:02

BST

239

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184608848177206

14:55:02

BST

351

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184608848177207

15:13:44

BST

178

13.87

GBP

XLON

592184608848960273

15:19:43

BST

4

13.87

GBP

XLON

592184608849208554

15:19:43

BST

200

13.87

GBP

XLON

592184608849208553

15:25:16

BST

61

13.86

GBP

XLON

606258359283572604

15:25:16

BST

410

13.86

GBP

XLON

606258359283572605

15:25:16

BST

523

13.86

GBP

XLON

606258359283572603

15:25:16

BST

84

13.86

GBP

XLON

592184608849434396

15:31:02

BST

217

13.84

GBP

XLON

606258359283831437

15:31:02

BST

239

13.84

GBP

XLON

592184608849708577

15:59:04

BST

98

13.86

GBP

XLON

592184608851172614

16:05:19

BST

40

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258359285491930

16:05:19

BST

55

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258359285491931

16:05:19

BST

36

13.88

GBP

XLON

592184608851464925

16:05:19

BST

36

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258359285491938

16:05:19

BST

91

13.88

GBP

XLON

606258359285491940

16:10:25

BST

321

13.87

GBP

XLON

592184608851712341

16:10:25

BST

574

13.87

GBP

XLON

606258359285726289

16:18:02

BST

20

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184608852117076

16:18:02

BST

550

13.92

GBP

XLON

592184608852117078

16:24:32

BST

170

13.91

GBP

XLON

592184608852513749

16:24:32

BST

185

13.91

GBP

XLON

592184608852513748

Ends