WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

07 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 07 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 120,777 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 130,794,230 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:

07 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

14.2716

14.2000

14.4200

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

08:02:12

BST

97

14.42

GBP

XLON

592181777681762780

08:02:12

BST

295

14.42

GBP

XLON

592181777681762779

08:10:59

BST

302

14.37

GBP

XLON

592181777681996252

08:25:09

BST

10

14.31

GBP

XLON

592181777682374936

08:25:09

BST

280

14.31

GBP

XLON

592181777682374935

08:46:22

BST

113

14.23

GBP

XLON

606255528116287963

08:46:22

BST

162

14.23

GBP

XLON

606255528116287964

09:14:39

BST

100

14.22

GBP

XLON

606255528116924040

09:14:39

BST

197

14.22

GBP

XLON

606255528116924041

09:14:39

BST

220

14.22

GBP

XLON

592181777683568131

09:39:13

BST

196

14.21

GBP

XLON

592181777684125463

09:58:52

BST

195

14.21

GBP

XLON

606255528117848188

09:59:42

BST

276

14.2

GBP

XLON

592181777684570357

10:49:08

BST

40

14.2

GBP

XLON

592181777685756513

10:49:08

BST

100

14.2

GBP

XLON

592181777685756511

10:49:08

BST

171

14.2

GBP

XLON

592181777685756509

10:49:08

BST

200

14.2

GBP

XLON

592181777685756510

12:02:36

BST

243

14.3

GBP

XLON

592181777687316067

12:02:41

BST

336

14.28

GBP

XLON

606255528120432492

12:02:41

BST

489

14.28

GBP

XLON

606255528120432491

12:49:49

BST

20

14.29

GBP

XLON

592181777688300232

12:49:49

BST

80

14.29

GBP

XLON

592181777688300229

12:49:49

BST

95

14.29

GBP

XLON

592181777688300227

12:49:49

BST

100

14.29

GBP

XLON

592181777688300231

12:49:49

BST

274

14.29

GBP

XLON

592181777688300224

13:53:06

BST

15

14.31

GBP

XLON

592181777689780832

13:53:06

BST

68

14.31

GBP

XLON

592181777689780831

13:53:06

BST

35

14.31

GBP

XLON

606255528122733019

13:55:28

BST

103

14.32

GBP

XLON

592181777689840762

13:55:28

BST

19

14.32

GBP

XLON

606255528122789014

13:55:28

BST

19

14.32

GBP

XLON

606255528122789015

13:55:28

BST

32

14.32

GBP

XLON

606255528122789016

13:55:28

BST

84

14.32

GBP

XLON

606255528122789013

14:08:40

BST

288

14.35

GBP

XLON

592181777690207598

14:11:22

BST

292

14.32

GBP

XLON

592181777690288010

14:11:22

BST

552

14.32

GBP

XLON

592181777690288011

14:11:22

BST

63

14.32

GBP

XLON

606255528123208053

14:27:03

BST

262

14.28

GBP

XLON

592181777690700967

14:32:26

BST

296

14.25

GBP

XLON

606255528123778896

14:56:07

BST

35

14.27

GBP

XLON

606255528124659117

14:56:07

BST

68

14.27

GBP

XLON

606255528124659119

14:56:07

BST

100

14.27

GBP

XLON

606255528124659118

14:56:07

BST

203

14.27

GBP

XLON

592181777691830406

14:56:07

BST

450

14.27

GBP

XLON

606255528124659120

15:09:09

BST

100

14.26

GBP

XLON

592181777692318309

15:09:09

BST

100

14.26

GBP

XLON

592181777692318310

15:09:09

BST

100

14.26

GBP

XLON

592181777692318312

15:09:09

BST

290

14.26

GBP

XLON

592181777692318313

15:21:38

BST

26

14.27

GBP

XLON

592181777692790345

15:21:38

BST

62

14.27

GBP

XLON

592181777692790347

15:21:38

BST

75

14.27

GBP

XLON

592181777692790346

15:21:38

BST

203

14.27

GBP

XLON

592181777692790344

15:31:02

BST

74

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777693130105

15:31:02

BST

100

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777693130106

15:31:02

BST

184

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777693130108

15:40:15

BST

335

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777693456529

16:00:06

BST

145

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777694186936

16:00:06

BST

194

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777694186937

16:00:06

BST

218

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777694186938

16:00:06

BST

218

14.24

GBP

XLON

606255528126871110

16:23:56

BST

44

14.25

GBP

XLON

592181777695213823

16:23:56

BST

60

14.25

GBP

XLON

592181777695213825

16:23:56

BST

72

14.25

GBP

XLON

592181777695213824

16:23:56

BST

96

14.25

GBP

XLON

592181777695213826

16:29:47

BST

211

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777695477140

16:29:47

BST

518

14.24

GBP

XLON

592181777695477139

Ends