REG-FirstGroup Plc: Transaction in Own Shares

FirstgroupAnnouncement

11/07/2023 07:15

 

FirstGroup plc

Transaction in own shares

FirstGroup plc ("FirstGroup") announces that, in accordance with the terms of
its share buyback programme (the "Programme") announced on 16 December 2022,
it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each
(“Ordinary Shares”) through RBC Europe Limited.

 

 Date of Purchase                     10 July  
 Number of ordinary shares purchased  319,202  
 Weighted average price paid (p)      146.87   
 Highest price paid (p)               149.00   
 Lowest price paid (p)                144.00   

 

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 58,523,818 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held
as treasury shares is 692,143,327. FirstGroup initially intends to hold the
purchased shares as treasury shares but may cancel them in the due course.

The total number of voting rights in FirstGroup, excluding treasury shares as
at 10 July 2023 is 692,143,327. This figure may be used by shareholders as the
denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in,
FirstGroup under the FCA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 Contacts at FirstGroup:                        Contacts at Brunswick PR:         
  Marianna Bowes, Head of Investor Relations     Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer    
  David Blizzard, Company Secretary              Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959        
  corporate.comms@firstgroup.co.uk                                                
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354                                                       
 Contacts at Liberum Capital Limited:           Contacts at RBC Europe Limited:   
  Nicholas How / John Fishley / William Hall     James Agnew / Jack Wood          
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100 2000                      Tel: +44 (0) 20 7653 4000        

 

Transaction details

Issuer name: FirstGroup PLC

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

ISIN: GB0003452173

Classification: 2.4. Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares

Intermediary name: RBC Europe Limited

Intermediary Code: ROYCGB22

Timezone: GMT

Currency: GBp

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market
Abuse Regulation), a breakdown of the individual trades made by RBC Europe
Limited on behalf of FirstGroup as part of the Programme is detailed below:

 

Aggregate information: 

 Venue  Weighted average price (pence per share)  Aggregated volume  
 XLON   146.94                                    259,535            
 BATE   146.52                                    18,130             
 CHIX   146.53                                    18,302             
 TRQX   146.64                                    23,235             

 

Individual transactions:

 Transaction Time  Volume  Price (GBp)  Venue  

 08:00:32  260     144.00  XLON  
 08:00:32  260     144.00  BATE  
 08:00:32  260     144.00  CHIX  
 08:00:32  286     144.00  TRQX  
 08:00:32  65      144.00  TRQX  
 08:01:23  1,263   149.60  XLON  
 08:01:58  793     149.60  TRQX  
 08:02:38  935     147.80  BATE  
 08:02:38  991     147.80  XLON  
 08:02:38  990     147.80  TRQX  
 08:02:38  991     147.60  CHIX  
 08:04:48  743     146.40  XLON  
 08:04:48  743     146.40  TRQX  
 08:04:48  743     146.40  CHIX  
 08:04:48  743     146.40  BATE  
 08:04:49  743     146.40  XLON  
 08:05:45  743     146.90  XLON  
 08:05:45  743     146.90  TRQX  
 08:05:45  743     146.90  BATE  
 08:05:45  743     146.90  CHIX  
 08:06:28  686     146.60  TRQX  
 08:06:28  686     146.60  CHIX  
 08:06:28  686     146.60  BATE  
 08:06:50  44      146.30  XLON  
 08:06:50  536     146.30  TRQX  
 08:06:50  537     146.30  BATE  
 08:06:50  492     146.30  XLON  
 08:06:50  536     146.30  CHIX  
 08:07:30  250     146.40  XLON  
 08:07:30  249     146.40  TRQX  
 08:07:30  250     146.40  CHIX  
 08:07:30  250     146.40  BATE  
 08:07:30  63      146.40  CHIX  
 08:07:44  143     146.00  XLON  
 08:07:44  144     146.00  CHIX  
 08:07:44  144     146.00  BATE  
 08:10:45  116     146.70  XLON  
 08:10:45  89      145.80  BATE  
 08:21:18  169     147.40  XLON  
 08:21:18  323     146.80  XLON  
 08:21:18  7       146.80  XLON  
 08:25:01  241     146.40  XLON  
 08:25:01  125     146.20  XLON  
 08:25:01  170     146.20  CHIX  
 08:25:01  170     146.20  BATE  
 08:25:01  37      146.20  TRQX  
 08:25:01  40      146.20  TRQX  
 08:25:01  92      146.20  TRQX  
 08:30:15  221     147.10  CHIX  
 08:30:23  275     146.20  CHIX  
 08:30:24  88      147.10  BATE  
 08:30:24  133     147.10  BATE  
 08:30:24  220     146.50  XLON  
 08:30:24  69      146.50  CHIX  
 08:30:24  333     146.50  TRQX  
 08:30:24  1       146.50  CHIX  
 08:30:25  244     146.20  XLON  
 08:30:25  243     146.20  TRQX  
 08:30:25  244     146.20  BATE  
 08:30:25  244     146.20  CHIX  
 08:30:44  276     146.00  XLON  
 08:30:44  464     146.00  TRQX  
 08:30:44  188     146.00  XLON  
 08:30:44  458     146.00  CHIX  
 08:30:44  6       146.00  CHIX  
 08:30:44  464     145.90  BATE  
 08:30:46  82      146.70  CHIX  
 08:30:46  193     146.70  CHIX  
 08:30:46  78      146.50  CHIX  
 08:30:46  68      146.50  CHIX  
 08:36:16  283     147.00  XLON  
 08:41:31  861     147.10  XLON  
 08:41:33  206     147.10  XLON  
 08:41:36  215     147.10  XLON  
 08:41:39  52      147.10  XLON  
 08:41:42  53      147.10  XLON  
 08:41:45  13      147.10  XLON  
 08:41:48  14      147.10  XLON  
 08:41:51  3       147.10  XLON  
 08:41:54  3       147.10  XLON  
 08:41:57  1       147.10  CHIX  
 08:41:57  22      147.10  CHIX  
 08:42:06  144     146.90  XLON  
 08:42:06  144     146.50  BATE  
 08:42:09  36      146.80  XLON  
 08:48:50  130     146.80  XLON  
 08:48:51  59      146.90  CHIX  
 08:48:51  71      146.90  CHIX  
 08:48:53  127     146.90  XLON  
 08:48:57  33      146.90  CHIX  
 08:49:00  32      146.90  XLON  
 08:49:03  32      146.90  XLON  
 08:49:06  8       146.90  CHIX  
 08:49:09  8       146.90  XLON  
 08:49:11  8       146.90  XLON  
 08:49:15  2       146.90  XLON  
 08:57:14  2       146.60  XLON  
 08:57:14  130     146.60  TRQX  
 08:57:47  293     146.70  XLON  
 08:57:47  655     146.70  TRQX  
 08:57:47  655     146.70  BATE  
 08:57:47  655     146.70  CHIX  
 08:57:47  362     146.70  XLON  
 08:57:49  522     146.50  BATE  
 08:58:50  1,300   146.60  TRQX  
 08:58:50  557     146.60  XLON  
 08:58:50  557     146.60  CHIX  
 08:58:50  36      146.60  BATE  
 08:58:50  1,822   146.60  TRQX  
 08:59:00  269     146.30  BATE  
 08:59:00  529     146.30  CHIX  
 09:08:48  261     146.40  BATE  
 09:08:48  522     146.40  TRQX  
 09:08:48  368     146.40  CHIX  
 09:08:48  452     146.40  XLON  
 09:08:48  77      146.40  XLON  
 09:08:49  473     146.40  BATE  
 09:08:49  473     146.40  CHIX  
 09:08:50  472     146.40  XLON  
 09:08:50  472     146.40  TRQX  
 09:18:44  129     146.30  BATE  
 09:18:44  129     146.30  CHIX  
 09:18:45  404     146.80  TRQX  
 09:18:48  743     146.80  XLON  
 09:18:48  743     146.50  TRQX  
 09:18:48  743     146.50  BATE  
 09:18:48  743     146.50  CHIX  
 09:19:35  495     146.50  TRQX  
 09:19:35  495     146.50  XLON  
 09:19:35  496     146.50  BATE  
 09:19:35  496     146.50  CHIX  
 09:19:36  293     146.40  TRQX  
 09:19:36  623     146.40  TRQX  
 09:20:27  116     146.30  BATE  
 09:20:27  116     146.30  XLON  
 09:20:27  79      146.30  TRQX  
 09:20:30  116     146.50  CHIX  
 09:20:33  10      146.50  BATE  
 09:20:33  36      146.30  TRQX  
 09:20:33  10      146.30  XLON  
 09:20:33  174     146.30  TRQX  
 09:29:25  67      146.20  BATE  
 09:29:25  66      146.20  XLON  
 09:29:25  66      146.20  TRQX  
 09:29:25  67      146.20  CHIX  
 09:47:27  1       146.10  CHIX  
 09:50:03  404     146.40  XLON  
 09:50:06  548     146.60  XLON  
 09:50:06  57      146.40  BATE  
 09:50:06  347     146.40  BATE  
 09:50:09  119     146.60  XLON  
 10:00:03  119     146.30  BATE  
 10:00:03  404     146.30  TRQX  
 10:00:03  217     146.30  CHIX  
 10:00:03  217     146.30  XLON  
 10:02:59  140     146.40  XLON  
 10:02:59  230     146.30  XLON  
 10:02:59  54      146.30  XLON  
 10:10:03  28      146.50  XLON  
 10:10:03  432     146.40  XLON  
 10:10:03  1       146.40  XLON  
 10:10:03  315     146.40  XLON  
 10:19:22  303     146.60  XLON  
 10:19:22  256     146.60  XLON  
 10:19:22  358     146.60  XLON  
 10:19:22  285     146.60  XLON  
 10:19:28  286     146.90  BATE  
 10:19:28  725     146.70  XLON  
 10:22:22  81      146.90  XLON  
 10:22:24  38      146.90  XLON  
 10:23:32  1,450   147.10  XLON  
 10:23:32  78      146.90  CHIX  
 10:23:32  240     146.90  CHIX  
 10:24:09  581     146.80  BATE  
 10:24:09  285     146.80  TRQX  
 10:24:09  318     146.80  XLON  
 10:24:09  442     146.80  CHIX  
 10:24:59  257     146.70  TRQX  
 10:24:59  257     146.70  XLON  
 10:24:59  258     146.70  CHIX  
 10:24:59  258     146.70  BATE  
 10:24:59  663     146.70  CHIX  
 10:42:34  1       146.70  BATE  
 10:43:52  444     146.80  XLON  
 10:43:52  47      146.70  CHIX  
 10:52:37  364     146.60  XLON  
 10:52:37  364     146.60  TRQX  
 10:52:37  365     146.60  BATE  
 10:52:37  365     146.60  CHIX  
 10:52:37  94      146.60  XLON  
 10:59:00  133     146.70  XLON  
 10:59:00  1       146.50  BATE  
 10:59:00  1       146.50  CHIX  
 10:59:03  33      146.70  XLON  
 11:28:20  95      146.70  XLON  
 11:28:21  42      146.70  XLON  
 11:28:21  29      146.70  XLON  
 11:29:05  96      146.80  XLON  
 11:29:09  96      146.80  CHIX  
 11:29:12  364     146.80  XLON  
 11:29:15  95      146.80  TRQX  
 11:29:18  91      146.80  XLON  
 11:29:21  24      146.80  CHIX  
 11:29:24  24      146.80  TRQX  
 11:29:27  23      146.80  XLON  
 11:29:30  11      146.80  XLON  
 11:29:32  6       146.80  CHIX  
 11:29:36  5       146.80  XLON  
 11:29:37  6       146.80  TRQX  
 11:29:38  3       146.90  XLON  
 11:29:38  130     146.80  XLON  
 11:29:38  155     146.80  XLON  
 12:02:59  72      146.60  XLON  
 12:20:33  1       146.70  XLON  
 12:20:33  292     146.70  XLON  
 12:20:36  4       146.70  XLON  
 12:20:39  259     146.70  XLON  
 12:20:42  1       146.70  XLON  
 12:21:16  65      146.70  XLON  
 12:21:16  1       146.60  TRQX  
 12:21:17  564     146.70  XLON  
 12:21:19  239     146.70  XLON  
 12:21:19  298     146.70  XLON  
 12:21:21  141     146.70  XLON  
 12:21:24  29      146.70  XLON  
 12:21:24  105     146.70  XLON  
 12:21:27  2       146.70  CHIX  
 12:23:02  35      146.80  XLON  
 12:23:06  68      146.80  CHIX  
 12:23:09  1,117   146.80  XLON  
 12:23:10  1,488   146.80  XLON  
 12:23:10  34      146.70  XLON  
 12:49:06  1       146.60  TRQX  
 12:49:06  96      146.60  BATE  
 12:49:06  17      146.60  CHIX  
 12:49:06  655     146.60  XLON  
 12:52:47  852     146.70  XLON  
 12:52:47  238     146.70  XLON  
 12:52:49  1       146.70  TRQX  
 12:52:49  80      146.70  TRQX  
 12:52:50  228     146.70  XLON  
 12:52:50  46      146.70  XLON  
 12:52:51  81      146.70  CHIX  
 12:52:54  69      146.70  XLON  
 12:52:57  21      146.70  CHIX  
 12:52:59  17      146.70  XLON  
 12:53:00  5       146.70  CHIX  
 12:53:03  4       146.70  XLON  
 12:53:06  2       146.70  CHIX  
 12:57:25  20      146.60  TRQX  
 12:57:25  1       146.60  XLON  
 12:57:25  1       146.60  XLON  
 12:57:25  82      146.60  BATE  
 12:57:25  5       146.60  CHIX  
 12:57:28  40      146.50  XLON  
 12:57:28  40      146.50  TRQX  
 12:57:28  41      146.50  BATE  
 12:57:28  40      146.50  CHIX  
 12:59:00  205     146.60  TRQX  
 12:59:00  1       146.40  BATE  
 12:59:03  120     146.60  CHIX  
 12:59:03  86      146.60  CHIX  
 12:59:06  111     146.60  BATE  
 12:59:06  94      146.60  BATE  
 12:59:07  52      146.60  CHIX  
 12:59:09  110     146.70  XLON  
 12:59:09  96      146.70  XLON  
 12:59:09  28      146.60  TRQX  
 12:59:09  23      146.60  TRQX  
 12:59:12  51      146.70  BATE  
 12:59:15  1       146.70  TRQX  
 12:59:15  31      146.70  TRQX  
 12:59:18  32      146.70  XLON  
 12:59:20  13      146.70  CHIX  
 12:59:21  8       146.70  TRQX  
 12:59:24  8       146.70  XLON  
 12:59:25  3       146.70  CHIX  
 12:59:27  2       146.70  TRQX  
 13:07:00  2       146.70  XLON  
 13:07:01  1       146.70  CHIX  
 13:08:52  31      146.70  CHIX  
 13:08:54  1       146.70  XLON  
 13:22:48  27      146.70  CHIX  
 13:22:51  13      146.70  BATE  
 13:22:54  12      146.70  TRQX  
 13:22:54  380     146.70  TRQX  
 13:22:57  7       146.70  CHIX  
 13:23:00  3       146.70  BATE  
 13:25:36  2       146.70  CHIX  
 13:25:38  2       146.80  XLON  
 13:48:30  115     146.90  XLON  
 13:48:30  206     146.80  XLON  
 13:51:15  206     146.80  TRQX  
 13:51:15  2,354   146.80  XLON  
 13:51:15  206     146.80  BATE  
 13:51:15  206     146.80  CHIX  
 13:51:42  1,280   146.70  XLON  
 13:51:42  617     146.70  TRQX  
 13:51:54  505     146.70  XLON  
 13:51:54  663     146.70  TRQX  
 13:51:54  506     146.70  CHIX  
 13:51:54  506     146.70  BATE  
 14:26:21  694     146.70  XLON  
 14:26:21  122     146.70  TRQX  
 14:26:21  122     146.70  BATE  
 14:26:21  122     146.70  CHIX  
 14:28:44  538     146.60  TRQX  
 14:28:44  538     146.60  XLON  
 14:28:44  539     146.60  BATE  
 14:28:44  82      146.60  CHIX  
 14:28:44  457     146.60  CHIX  
 14:29:55  887     146.50  TRQX  
 14:29:55  273     146.50  TRQX  
 14:30:36  205     146.40  XLON  
 14:30:36  204     146.40  TRQX  
 14:30:36  205     146.40  CHIX  
 14:30:36  205     146.40  BATE  
 14:30:37  87      146.40  TRQX  
 14:44:43  91      146.40  CHIX  
 14:44:43  462     146.40  BATE  
 14:44:43  461     146.40  TRQX  
 14:44:43  462     146.40  XLON  
 14:44:43  371     146.40  CHIX  
 14:55:56  54      146.50  BATE  
 14:55:56  102     146.50  BATE  
 14:55:58  143     146.50  BATE  
 14:55:58  325     146.50  BATE  
 15:00:57  744     146.60  XLON  
 15:01:01  6       146.60  CHIX  
 15:01:01  4       146.60  CHIX  
 15:01:01  186     146.60  XLON  
 15:01:02  24      146.60  XLON  
 15:21:04  268     146.60  XLON  
 15:21:04  185     146.60  XLON  
 15:21:07  453     146.70  TRQX  
 15:21:07  36      146.60  BATE  
 15:21:07  4       146.60  BATE  
 15:21:08  113     146.60  XLON  
 15:21:10  2       146.60  XLON  
 15:22:28  128     146.50  TRQX  
 15:22:28  28      146.50  XLON  
 15:22:28  25      146.50  CHIX  
 15:22:28  26      146.50  BATE  
 15:22:28  102     146.50  BATE  
 15:34:24  190     146.50  TRQX  
 15:34:24  379     146.50  XLON  
 15:34:24  191     146.50  BATE  
 15:34:24  190     146.50  CHIX  
 15:35:50  270     146.40  XLON  
 15:35:50  270     146.40  TRQX  
 15:35:50  271     146.40  BATE  
 15:35:50  213     146.40  CHIX  
 15:35:52  241     146.50  XLON  
 15:45:49  730     146.40  XLON  
 15:45:49  241     146.40  TRQX  
 15:45:49  241     146.40  BATE  
 15:45:49  730     146.40  CHIX  
 15:55:11  1,321   146.30  XLON  
 15:57:47  896     146.30  XLON  
 15:57:50  75      146.50  XLON  
 15:57:52  302     146.50  XLON  
 15:57:52  75      146.30  XLON  
 15:57:56  96      146.50  XLON  
 15:57:59  181     146.50  XLON  
 15:58:02  24      146.50  XLON  
 15:58:03  45      146.50  XLON  
 15:58:05  6       146.50  XLON  
 15:58:08  11      146.50  XLON  
 15:58:11  2       146.50  CHIX  
 15:58:14  2       146.50  BATE  
 15:58:39  2       146.30  XLON  
 15:58:39  2       146.30  XLON  
 15:58:56  34      146.50  XLON  
 15:58:59  151     146.50  XLON  
 15:59:02  26      146.50  BATE  
 15:59:02  302     146.50  BATE  
 15:59:04  1       146.50  TRQX  
 16:00:02  38      146.60  XLON  
 16:00:02  13      146.50  TRQX  
 16:00:02  292     146.50  TRQX  
 16:00:25  277     146.40  XLON  
 16:00:26  80      146.60  XLON  
 16:00:29  486     146.60  XLON  
 16:00:30  59      146.60  TRQX  
 16:00:32  121     146.60  XLON  
 16:00:35  20      146.60  XLON  
 16:00:38  30      146.60  XLON  
 16:00:40  5       146.60  XLON  
 16:00:44  8       146.60  XLON  
 16:00:47  1       146.60  XLON  
 16:00:57  74      146.60  XLON  
 16:00:59  2       146.60  XLON  
 16:01:02  18      146.60  XLON  
 16:01:05  15      146.70  TRQX  
 16:01:05  1       146.60  BATE  
 16:01:05  305     146.60  BATE  
 16:01:08  4       146.60  XLON  
 16:01:11  1       146.60  XLON  
 16:01:14  1       146.60  XLON  
 16:10:31  1       146.40  XLON  
 16:10:31  1       146.40  CHIX  
 16:10:31  42      146.40  BATE  
 16:10:31  42      146.40  TRQX  
 16:11:33  134     146.40  TRQX  
 16:11:33  135     146.40  BATE  
 16:11:33  135     146.40  CHIX  
 16:11:33  134     146.40  XLON  
 16:25:20  490     146.30  XLON  
 16:25:20  489     146.30  TRQX  
 16:25:20  490     146.30  BATE  
 16:25:20  490     146.30  CHIX  
 16:27:40  1,161   146.20  XLON  
 16:27:40  349     146.20  TRQX  
 16:27:40  342     146.20  XLON  
 16:27:40  216     146.20  BATE  
 16:27:40  349     146.20  CHIX  
 16:27:40  133     146.20  BATE  
 16:27:47  121     146.20  BATE  
 16:27:47  120     146.20  CHIX  
 16:27:51  119     146.20  TRQX  
 16:27:51  27      146.20  BATE  
 16:27:51  308     146.20  CHIX  
 16:28:41  1,276   146.40  XLON  
 16:28:41  61      146.20  BATE  
 16:28:44  264     146.40  BATE  
 16:28:46  796     146.40  XLON  
 16:28:46  890     146.40  XLON  
 16:28:48  239     146.40  BATE  
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 16:29:05  15      146.40  BATE  
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 16:29:11  7       146.40  XLON  
 16:29:14  4       146.40  BATE  
 16:29:17  4       146.40  CHIX  
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 16:29:23  1       146.40  XLON  
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 16:35:29  17,330  147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  12,993  147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  1,073   147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  652     147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  593     147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  27,325  147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  28,819  147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  5,678   147.00  XLON  
 16:35:29  2,819   147.00  XLON  
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