WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

25 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 25 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 274,197 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,642,095 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:

25 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

13.9943

13.8000

14.1000

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

08:02:42

BST

429

13.88

GBP

XLON

606261898232568985

08:15:15

BST

303

13.8

GBP

XLON

592188147782447476

08:31:20

BST

206

13.84

GBP

XLON

592188147782786001

08:57:08

BST

283

13.85

GBP

XLON

606261898233607696

09:51:15

BST

196

13.86

GBP

XLON

606261898234668049

09:51:15

BST

410

13.86

GBP

XLON

606261898234668048

10:13:57

BST

196

13.88

GBP

XLON

606261898235121111

10:13:57

BST

624

13.88

GBP

XLON

592188147784952090

11:11:50

BST

210

14

GBP

XLON

606261898236353164

11:15:39

BST

349

14

GBP

XLON

606261898236438314

11:59:47

BST

37

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261898237358315

11:59:47

BST

147

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261898237358314

11:59:47

BST

386

13.96

GBP

XLON

606261898237358313

12:41:05

BST

332

13.94

GBP

XLON

606261898238160556

13:26:31

BST

206

14.03

GBP

XLON

592188147789376836

13:26:31

BST

714

14.03

GBP

XLON

606261898239204121

13:40:30

BST

57

14.01

GBP

XLON

592188147789768103

13:40:30

BST

192

14.01

GBP

XLON

592188147789768104

14:01:31

BST

12

14.01

GBP

XLON

606261898240093981

14:01:31

BST

109

14.01

GBP

XLON

606261898240093980

14:01:31

BST

114

14.01

GBP

XLON

606261898240093979

14:01:31

BST

162

14.01

GBP

XLON

606261898240093982

14:09:51

BST

90

13.99

GBP

XLON

592188147790560306

14:12:05

BST

92

13.99

GBP

XLON

592188147790624527

14:19:33

BST

306

14.01

GBP

XLON

592188147790844468

14:30:30

BST

45

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261898240910572

14:32:10

BST

99

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261898240994404

14:33:21

BST

81

13.99

GBP

XLON

606261898241046727

14:40:33

BST

29

13.98

GBP

XLON

606261898241312397

15:00:08

BST

460

14.07

GBP

XLON

606261898242109831

15:00:24

BST

202

14.06

GBP

XLON

606261898242119501

15:00:24

BST

771

14.06

GBP

XLON

606261898242119500

15:00:24

BST

130

14.06

GBP

XLON

592188147792541281

15:17:11

BST

23

14.1

GBP

XLON

592188147793269419

15:18:51

BST

77

14.1

GBP

XLON

592188147793344600

15:19:48

BST

123

14.1

GBP

XLON

592188147793383796

15:27:11

BST

18

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243169114

15:27:11

BST

319

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243169115

15:32:12

BST

25

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243342527

15:39:52

BST

92

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243622451

15:39:52

BST

106

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243622452

15:39:52

BST

172

14.09

GBP

XLON

606261898243622453

15:45:50

BST

28

14.07

GBP

XLON

592188147794418331

15:45:50

BST

195

14.07

GBP

XLON

592188147794418332

15:50:58

BST

31

14.05

GBP

XLON

606261898244049932

15:55:19

BST

338

14.07

GBP

XLON

606261898244219848

16:07:03

BST

202

14.09

GBP

XLON

592188147795275695

16:07:03

BST

156

14.08

GBP

XLON

606261898244634823

16:07:03

BST

219

14.08

GBP

XLON

606261898244634822

16:12:01

BST

93

14.05

GBP

XLON

606261898244807879

16:12:01

BST

129

14.05

GBP

XLON

606261898244807878

16:20:31

BST

100

14.05

GBP

XLON

606261898245138100

16:20:31

BST

319

14.05

GBP

XLON

606261898245138101

16:27:12

BST

11

14.04

GBP

XLON

606261898245399212

16:27:12

BST

245

14.04

GBP

XLON

606261898245399213

Ends