REG-FirstGroup Plc: Transaction in Own Shares

FirstgroupAnnouncement

18/10/2023 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 8 June 2023, it has
purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each
(“Ordinary Shares”) through RBC Europe Limited.

 

 Date of Purchase                     17 October 2023  
 Number of ordinary shares purchased  333,535          
 Weighted average price paid (p)      152.21           
 Highest price paid (p)               152.70           
 Lowest price paid (p)                150.10           

 

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 84,295,379 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held
as treasury shares is 666,399,636. 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 17 October 2023 is 666,399,636. 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                    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   152.39                                    247,992            
 BATE   151.77                                    32,456             
 CHIX   151.80                                    30,312             
 TRQX   151.45                                    22,775             

 

Individual transactions:

 Transaction Time  Volume  Price (GBp)  Platform  

 8:23:47   272     150.20  XLON  
 8:23:47   60      150.30  XLON  
 8:23:47   272     150.30  XLON  
 8:23:48   426     150.60  XLON  
 8:32:27   1063    150.10  TRQX  
 8:32:27   1,343   150.10  TRQX  
 8:32:27   604     150.20  CHIX  
 8:32:27   427     150.20  BATE  
 8:32:27   603     150.20  TRQX  
 8:49:27   515     151.10  CHIX  
 8:49:27   516     151.10  BATE  
 8:49:27   514     151.10  TRQX  
 8:49:27   515     151.10  XLON  
 9:38:35   61      150.90  CHIX  
 9:38:35   179     150.90  CHIX  
 9:38:35   45      150.90  CHIX  
 9:38:35   687     150.90  BATE  
 9:38:35   402     150.90  CHIX  
 9:38:35   1631    150.90  TRQX  
 9:38:35   686     150.90  XLON  
 9:41:06   486     150.70  CHIX  
 9:41:06   486     150.70  BATE  
 9:41:06   544     150.70  XLON  
 9:41:06   544     150.70  TRQX  
 9:41:08   297     150.50  BATE  
 9:41:08   353     150.50  CHIX  
 9:41:08   189     150.50  BATE  
 9:41:08   333     150.50  TRQX  
 9:41:08   333     150.50  XLON  
 9:41:08   133     150.50  CHIX  
 9:41:08   211     150.50  TRQX  
 9:41:08   211     150.50  XLON  
 10:40:38  29      151.40  CHIX  
 10:40:38  486     151.40  CHIX  
 10:40:38  323     151.40  BATE  
 10:40:38  192     151.40  BATE  
 10:40:38  515     151.40  XLON  
 10:40:38  515     151.40  TRQX  
 10:52:15  427     151.30  XLON  
 10:52:15  88      151.30  XLON  
 10:52:15  342     151.30  TRQX  
 10:52:15  173     151.30  TRQX  
 10:52:15  515     151.30  CHIX  
 10:52:15  515     151.30  BATE  
 10:52:15  313     151.30  CHIX  
 10:55:18  13      151.20  BATE  
 11:17:19  114     150.80  BATE  
 11:17:19  113     150.80  CHIX  
 11:17:19  113     150.80  XLON  
 11:17:19  113     150.80  TRQX  
 11:17:19  210     151.00  XLON  
 11:17:19  289     151.00  BATE  
 11:17:19  214     151.00  CHIX  
 11:17:19  85      151.00  CHIX  
 11:27:08  170     150.90  CHIX  
 11:27:08  272     151.10  XLON  
 11:27:08  8       151.10  XLON  
 11:27:08  14      151.10  XLON  
 11:27:10  124     151.10  CHIX  
 11:29:32  49      150.90  CHIX  
 11:29:32  294     150.90  BATE  
 11:29:32  1       150.90  XLON  
 11:29:32  1       150.90  TRQX  
 11:29:32  298     150.90  XLON  
 11:29:32  297     150.90  TRQX  
 11:29:32  4       150.90  CHIX  
 11:29:32  89      150.90  CHIX  
 11:52:25  163     150.70  BATE  
 12:05:07  388     150.70  CHIX  
 12:05:07  163     150.70  CHIX  
 12:05:07  127     150.70  TRQX  
 12:05:07  163     150.70  XLON  
 12:05:07  35      150.70  TRQX  
 12:06:28  1,142   150.50  BATE  
 12:06:28  95      150.90  XLON  
 12:06:31  457     150.90  BATE  
 12:06:33  95      150.90  CHIX  
 12:06:36  98      150.90  BATE  
 12:06:36  85      150.90  BATE  
 12:06:37  9       150.90  TRQX  
 12:06:37  85      150.90  TRQX  
 12:06:38  75      150.90  BATE  
 12:19:14  47      150.50  BATE  
 12:19:15  85      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:15  157     150.80  BATE  
 12:19:16  55      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:19  47      150.80  CHIX  
 12:19:22  46      150.80  XLON  
 12:19:24  46      150.80  TRQX  
 12:19:25  67      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:25  30      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:26  22      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:28  39      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:31  19      150.80  XLON  
 12:19:34  18      150.80  TRQX  
 12:19:37  18      150.80  CHIX  
 12:19:40  15      150.80  BATE  
 12:19:43  9       150.80  BATE  
 12:19:44  8       150.80  XLON  
 12:19:46  7       150.80  TRQX  
 12:19:49  7       150.80  CHIX  
 12:19:52  6       150.80  BATE  
 12:19:55  4       150.80  BATE  
 12:19:58  3       150.80  XLON  
 12:20:01  3       150.80  CHIX  
 12:20:04  3       150.80  TRQX  
 12:20:07  2       150.80  BATE  
 12:20:10  2       150.80  BATE  
 12:20:13  1       150.80  BATE  
 12:53:10  1       150.60  CHIX  
 12:53:10  1       150.60  XLON  
 12:53:10  1       150.60  TRQX  
 12:53:10  1       150.60  BATE  
 12:53:10  1       150.60  BATE  
 13:45:21  315     150.50  TRQX  
 13:45:21  315     150.50  XLON  
 13:45:21  87      150.50  CHIX  
 13:45:21  148     150.50  CHIX  
 13:45:21  235     150.50  BATE  
 13:45:21  80      150.50  CHIX  
 13:45:21  80      150.50  BATE  
 13:45:22  272     151.50  XLON  
 13:45:22  843     151.50  XLON  
 13:45:22  4607    151.40  BATE  
 13:45:22  315     151.50  BATE  
 13:45:23  315     151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:25  533     151.20  XLON  
 13:45:25  315     151.20  TRQX  
 13:45:25  697     151.20  XLON  
 13:45:25  200     151.20  XLON  
 13:45:26  196     151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:26  359     151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:26  51      151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:26  424     151.50  XLON  
 13:45:27  350     151.50  BATE  
 13:45:27  85      151.50  BATE  
 13:45:27  56      151.50  BATE  
 13:45:27  108     151.50  BATE  
 13:45:27  7       151.50  BATE  
 13:45:27  155     151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:27  360     151.50  CHIX  
 13:45:28  423     151.50  TRQX  
 13:45:28  1       151.50  TRQX  
 13:45:28  515     151.60  XLON  
 13:45:31  85      151.70  CHIX  
 13:45:31  475     151.70  CHIX  
 13:45:31  266     151.60  XLON  
 13:45:31  204     151.60  XLON  
 13:45:32  758     151.70  CHIX  
 13:45:33  1,196   151.70  CHIX  
 13:45:33  689     151.70  CHIX  
 13:45:37  2,397   151.80  CHIX  
 13:45:52  76      151.60  BATE  
 13:45:52  485     151.60  BATE  
 13:45:52  469     151.60  TRQX  
 13:45:52  1,030   151.60  XLON  
 13:45:52  1,014   151.65  BATE  
 13:45:53  243     151.90  XLON  
 13:45:53  272     151.90  XLON  
 13:45:54  149     152.00  CHIX  
 13:45:54  366     152.00  CHIX  
 13:45:54  172     152.00  BATE  
 13:45:54  83      152.00  BATE  
 13:45:54  45      152.00  BATE  
 13:45:54  102     152.00  BATE  
 13:45:54  113     152.00  BATE  
 13:46:36  518     151.80  CHIX  
 13:58:01  1,178   151.50  TRQX  
 13:58:01  881     151.60  XLON  
 13:58:01  883     151.60  XLON  
 13:58:01  515     151.60  TRQX  
 13:58:01  339     151.50  TRQX  
 13:58:01  1,244   151.45  TRQX  
 13:58:02  420     151.60  XLON  
 13:58:02  543     151.60  XLON  
 13:58:02  4,086   151.60  XLON  
 13:58:02  308     151.70  CHIX  
 13:58:02  85      151.70  CHIX  
 14:01:28  393     151.50  BATE  
 14:01:28  271     151.50  XLON  
 14:01:57  454     151.70  CHIX  
 14:01:57  233     151.70  CHIX  
 14:01:57  332     151.70  XLON  
 14:01:57  714     151.85  CHIX  
 14:01:57  289     152.00  XLON  
 14:01:57  66      152.00  XLON  
 14:06:03  678     152.15  CHIX  
 14:07:02  686     152.10  TRQX  
 14:07:02  509     152.10  CHIX  
 14:07:02  510     152.10  BATE  
 14:07:02  1,147   152.15  BATE  
 14:07:03  160     152.40  XLON  
 14:07:03  272     152.40  XLON  
 14:12:43  433     152.10  BATE  
 14:15:02  139     152.10  XLON  
 14:15:02  598     152.10  CHIX  
 14:15:02  477     152.10  TRQX  
 14:15:02  293     152.10  XLON  
 14:15:02  120     152.10  TRQX  
 14:15:03  286     152.40  CHIX  
 14:20:02  286     152.10  BATE  
 14:20:02  285     152.10  XLON  
 14:20:02  744     152.10  TRQX  
 14:20:02  745     152.10  CHIX  
 14:20:02  667     152.10  BATE  
 14:20:02  351     152.10  BATE  
 14:20:07  368     152.00  CHIX  
 14:20:07  744     152.00  TRQX  
 14:20:07  377     152.00  CHIX  
 14:24:40  1       151.90  CHIX  
 14:29:41  135     151.90  CHIX  
 14:29:41  280     151.90  BATE  
 14:29:41  420     151.90  CHIX  
 14:29:41  194     151.90  BATE  
 14:29:41  474     151.90  XLON  
 14:29:41  556     151.90  TRQX  
 14:32:17  10      151.90  XLON  
 14:57:57  330     151.80  CHIX  
 14:57:57  185     151.80  CHIX  
 14:57:57  515     151.80  BATE  
 14:57:57  541     151.80  XLON  
 14:57:57  515     151.80  TRQX  
 14:57:58  126     152.00  CHIX  
 14:57:58  549     152.00  CHIX  
 14:58:01  385     151.70  TRQX  
 14:58:02  476     151.70  BATE  
 14:58:02  515     151.70  XLON  
 14:58:02  130     151.70  TRQX  
 15:06:00  105     151.70  BATE  
 15:06:00  410     151.70  BATE  
 15:06:00  515     151.70  CHIX  
 15:06:00  515     151.70  TRQX  
 15:06:00  515     151.70  XLON  
 15:06:00  563     151.70  BATE  
 15:06:00  515     151.60  XLON  
 15:06:00  515     151.60  TRQX  
 15:18:10  2,077   152.30  XLON  
 15:18:10  204     152.30  XLON  
 15:18:10  430     152.00  CHIX  
 15:18:10  515     152.00  BATE  
 15:18:10  85      152.00  CHIX  
 15:18:10  515     152.00  TRQX  
 15:18:10  515     152.00  XLON  
 15:18:12  515     152.20  XLON  
 15:18:12  934     152.20  XLON  
 15:18:12  31      152.40  CHIX  
 15:18:12  484     152.40  CHIX  
 15:18:13  819     152.50  BATE  
 15:18:13  80      152.50  BATE  
 15:18:23  515     152.20  BATE  
 15:18:23  1,030   152.20  XLON  
 15:18:23  515     152.20  TRQX  
 15:28:19  515     152.10  CHIX  
 15:28:19  515     152.10  TRQX  
 15:28:19  515     152.10  XLON  
 15:28:19  519     152.15  BATE  
 15:28:19  517     152.15  BATE  
 15:28:20  515     152.30  XLON  
 15:43:08  802     152.40  CHIX  
 15:43:08  832     152.40  BATE  
 15:43:08  831     152.40  CHIX  
 15:44:02  648     152.50  CHIX  
 15:44:02  671     152.50  BATE  
 15:47:55  440     152.40  CHIX  
 15:47:55  515     152.40  BATE  
 15:47:55  75      152.40  CHIX  
 15:47:55  515     152.40  TRQX  
 15:47:55  618     152.35  CHIX  
 15:47:55  685     152.50  CHIX  
 16:09:56  687     152.40  XLON  
 16:09:56  687     152.40  CHIX  
 16:09:56  686     152.40  TRQX  
 16:09:57  387     152.50  CHIX  
 16:09:57  300     152.50  CHIX  
 16:09:57  564     152.60  BATE  
 16:09:57  1,391   152.60  BATE  
 16:16:57  3       152.40  BATE  
 16:16:57  686     152.40  XLON  
 16:16:57  684     152.40  BATE  
 16:28:19  457     152.50  TRQX  
 16:28:19  458     152.50  XLON  
 16:28:19  280     152.50  CHIX  
 16:28:19  178     152.50  CHIX  
 16:28:19  1,022   152.70  BATE  
 16:28:19  376     152.70  BATE  
 16:28:25  687     152.50  XLON  
 16:28:38  687     152.50  CHIX  
 16:28:38  686     152.50  TRQX  
 16:28:46  687     152.40  XLON  
 16:28:46  377     152.70  TRQX  
 16:28:46  307     152.70  TRQX  
 16:28:46  2       152.70  TRQX  
 16:28:46  1,235   152.70  BATE  
 16:29:49  458     152.50  CHIX  
 16:29:49  458     152.50  BATE  
 16:29:49  458     152.50  XLON  
 16:29:50  572     152.70  BATE  
 16:35:04  5,843   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  10,063  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  18,541  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  20,200  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  12,312  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  26,996  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  672     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  805     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  3,301   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  994     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  811     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  1,265   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  825     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  22,969  152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  4,359   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  2701    152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  6,056   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  549     152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  46226   152.50  XLON  
 16:35:04  29632   152.50  XLON  
 


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