REG-Ashtead Group Plc: Transaction in Own Shares

AshteadAnnouncement

03/09/2025 07:02

Ashtead Group plc

3 September 2025

 

Share buy-back programme

 

Ashtead Group plc (the Company) announces that in continuation of its share
buyback programme announced on 10 December 2024, it has entered into an
arrangement with J.P. Morgan Securities plc (JPMS plc). The arrangement allows
JPMS plc to purchase, together with any other ordinary shares in the Company
(the "Shares") purchased on the Company's behalf pursuant to this buyback
programme, up to (a) in accordance with the terms of the Company's current
buyback authority granted at the annual general meeting (AGM) by shareholder
resolution dated 2 September 2025, 64,043,930 Shares up to and including the
date of the next AGM; and (b) following the expiry of such current buyback
authority, the aggregate number of Shares authorised to be purchased by the
Company under any subsequent buyback authority granted during the arrangement
(which in any event shall be less than 14.99% of the relevant class of the
Company's equity shares at the date of such authority).

These share purchases will be made by JPMS plc acting as riskless principal
and in accordance with the arrangement, and they shall be made independently
of and uninfluenced by the Company.

Any share purchases effected pursuant to the arrangement will be subject to
the terms of the arrangement with JPMS plc and in any case will be effected in
a manner consistent with both the general authority vested in the Company to
repurchase shares and the United Kingdom Listing Rules, which require that the
maximum price paid be limited to be no more than the lower of (i) 105 per cent
of the average middle market closing price of the Company's ordinary shares
for the five business days before the purchase is made, and (ii) the higher of
the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent
bid on the trading venue where the purchase is carried out.

 

Following the purchase of the Shares, they will be placed into treasury. The
sole purpose of these share purchases is to reduce the Company's share
capital.

 

Further enquiries:

 

 Will Shaw       Ashtead Group plc    +44 (0)20 7726 9700  
 Sam Cartwright  H/Advisors Maitland  +44 (0)20 7379 5151  

 



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