REG - Balfour Beatty PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

Balfour BeattyAnnouncement

08/04/2021 07:15

RNS Number : 7435U
  
Balfour Beatty PLC
  
08 April 2021
  
 

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
08 April 2021
Balfour Beatty plc (the "Group" or "Balfour Beatty"), the international infrastructure group, announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 5 January 2021 (the "Share Buyback"), the Group purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 50 pence each through BofA Securities.
 



Date of purchase: 


07 April 2021 




Aggregate number of ordinary shares of 50 pence each purchased: 


425,853




Highest price paid per share (GBp):


312.00




Lowest price paid per share (GBp):


303.20




Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):


309.0557
 



The Group will hold the repurchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 675,950,104 (excluding treasury shares).
The Group has to date, under the Share Buyback, repurchased 13,789,515 ordinary shares at a volume weighted average price of 284.1555 pence, which are to be held in treasury with no voting rights attached. The shares repurchased under the Share Buyback are the only shares held in treasury by the Group.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the table available on the Company's website here contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by BofA Securities as part of the Share Buyback.
 
Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased according to each trading venue: 
 



Venue


Weighted average price paid per share (GBp)


Aggregate number of shares purchased


Lowest price paid per share

(GBp)


Highest price paid per share

(GBp)




London Stock Exchange 


308.5359


265,444


303.2000


311.6000




Turquoise


309.8646


21,940


303.8000


311.4000




Chi-X (CXE)


309.7090


39,000


303.4000


311.8000




BATS (BXE)


310.0082


99,469


303.2000


312.0000




Aquis UK


0.0000


0


0.0000


0.0000



 
 
 
Analyst/investor enquiries:
Angus Barry

Tel. +44 (0)20 7216 6824
angus.barry@balfourbeatty.com  
 
Media enquiries: 
Antonia Walton

Tel. +44 (0) 203 810 2345
antonia.walton@balfourbeatty.com
 
Notes to editors:
·    Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with 26,000 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.  
·    We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities. 
·    Over the last 112 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including: the £1.5 billion A14 improvement scheme - Britain's biggest road project; Hong Kong's HK$5.5 billion world-class harbour theatre project for the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; and the 12.5 mile $429 million North Metro Commuter Rail line in Colorado, US.
 

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