REG - European Smaller Co. - Transaction in Own Shares

European Smaller Companies TrustAnnouncement

Today 18:15

For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below:
https://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20250701:nRSA3029Pa&default-theme=true

RNS Number : 3029P  European Smaller Companies Tst PLC  01 July 2025

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800N1B1HCQG2W4V90

1 July 2025

 

THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC

(the 'Company')

 

Market purchase by the Company of its own shares

Notification is given that, pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual
General Meeting of the Company held on 25 November 2024 to make market
purchases of the Company's own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99%, a
market purchase of 11,628 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company was
made today at a price of 209.5p per share. These shares will be held in
treasury.

Following the above purchase, the Company's issued ordinary share capital will
continue to be 279,246,204 ordinary shares of 1.5625p each, of which
51,733,676 (18.53% of the issued share capital) are held in treasury and have
no voting rights.

Holders of the Company's ordinary shares are entitled to one vote for every
share held. As treasury shares have no voting rights, the total number of
voting rights in the Company is now 227,512,528.  Shareholders should use
this figure for notifications in keeping with the provisions of DTR 5.

For further information, please call:

Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited

Corporate Secretary

Telephone: 020 7818 1818

 

Harriet Hall

PR Director, Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2919

 

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact
rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com)
 or visit
www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/)
.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our
Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy)
.   END  POSDFLFBEDLBBBF