REG - Rolls-Royce Holdings - Transaction in Own Shares
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RNS Number : 8193E Rolls-Royce Holdings plc 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
Transaction in own shares
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (the "Company" or "Rolls-Royce") announces today that
it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 20 pence each
("Ordinary Shares") through UBS AG London Branch ("UBS") on the London Stock
Exchange and other exchanges, as set out below, as part of the £1 billion
buyback programme announced by the Company on 27 February 2025 (the
"Programme"):
Date of purchase: 24 October 2025
London Stock Exchange CBOE BXE CBOE CXE Aquis
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased: 508,244 0 10,405 0
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (p): 1115.0000 0.0000 1095.0000 0.0000
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (p): 1094.5000 0.0000 1095.0000 0.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (p): 1100.8727 0.0000 1095.0000 0.0000
Rolls-Royce intends to hold all of the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.
Following the above transaction, Rolls-Royce will hold 31,718,482 Ordinary
Shares in treasury and has a total of 8,443,808,552 Ordinary Shares in issue.
Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be
8,412,090,070 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator
when determining whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance
and Transparency Rules.
Since the commencement of the Programme, the Company has repurchased
92,806,919 Ordinary Shares in aggregate at a weighted average price of
916.8529 pence per Ordinary Share.
Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions:
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as
incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act
2018), a full breakdown of the individual trades made by UBS on behalf of the
Company as part of the Programme is detailed below:
Issuer Name: Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
LEI: 213800EC7997ZBLZJH69
ISIN: GB00B63H8491
Intermediary name: UBS AG London Branch
Intermediary Code: UBSWGB24
Timezone: GMT
Currency: GBp
Transaction Date Transaction Time Volume Price per Ordinary Share (GBp) Trading venue Transaction Reference Number
24/10/2025 10:14:38 2,708 1095.0000 CHIX 2088682
24/10/2025 11:42:43 2,376 1095.0000 CHIX 2146695
24/10/2025 12:00:00 2,457 1095.0000 CHIX 2156305
24/10/2025 12:00:00 2,864 1095.0000 CHIX 2156219
24/10/2025 08:00:57 2,667 1115.0000 LSE 1961670
24/10/2025 08:02:16 2,626 1115.0000 LSE 1963845
24/10/2025 08:03:04 2,777 1113.5000 LSE 1965110
24/10/2025 08:03:41 19 1110.0000 LSE 1965905
24/10/2025 08:16:25 2,807 1110.0000 LSE 1979480
24/10/2025 08:16:25 3,016 1110.0000 LSE 1979478
24/10/2025 08:28:12 3,063 1110.0000 LSE 1990982
24/10/2025 08:28:12 3,050 1111.0000 LSE 1990979
24/10/2025 08:29:57 2,905 1109.5000 LSE 1992270
24/10/2025 08:36:29 2,919 1110.0000 LSE 1998943
24/10/2025 08:43:22 2,881 1111.0000 LSE 2005514
24/10/2025 08:47:05 1,474 1109.0000 LSE 2010193
24/10/2025 08:47:05 1,675 1109.0000 LSE 2010191
24/10/2025 08:48:17 3,071 1110.0000 LSE 2011660
24/10/2025 08:49:02 2,740 1110.0000 LSE 2012420
24/10/2025 08:51:38 2,736 1110.0000 LSE 2015708
24/10/2025 09:00:47 2,989 1106.5000 LSE 2026152
24/10/2025 09:01:35 2,967 1105.5000 LSE 2026861
24/10/2025 09:02:04 2,575 1104.5000 LSE 2027146
24/10/2025 09:02:04 190 1104.5000 LSE 2027144
24/10/2025 09:03:00 1,457 1104.0000 LSE 2027783
24/10/2025 09:03:00 1,005 1104.0000 LSE 2027781
24/10/2025 09:03:00 580 1104.0000 LSE 2027779
24/10/2025 09:03:00 1,805 1104.0000 LSE 2027774
24/10/2025 09:03:00 1,226 1104.0000 LSE 2027766
24/10/2025 09:03:34 2,597 1104.0000 LSE 2028209
24/10/2025 09:03:34 158 1104.0000 LSE 2028207
24/10/2025 09:04:00 3,491 1103.5000 LSE 2028525
24/10/2025 09:04:00 2,359 1103.5000 LSE 2028523
24/10/2025 09:04:00 427 1103.5000 LSE 2028521
24/10/2025 09:04:47 1,793 1103.0000 LSE 2029333
24/10/2025 09:04:47 1,278 1103.0000 LSE 2029331
24/10/2025 09:05:40 3,151 1102.5000 LSE 2030786
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24/10/2025 09:06:45 192 1102.0000 LSE 2031610
24/10/2025 09:06:45 1,893 1102.0000 LSE 2031608
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24/10/2025 09:08:53 1,924 1102.0000 LSE 2035743
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24/10/2025 09:10:09 1,437 1102.5000 LSE 2037003
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24/10/2025 09:12:18 723 1102.0000 LSE 2038722
24/10/2025 09:12:18 2,096 1102.0000 LSE 2038720
24/10/2025 09:16:30 255 1099.0000 LSE 2044825
24/10/2025 09:16:30 2,953 1099.5000 LSE 2044817
24/10/2025 09:16:30 1,787 1099.5000 LSE 2044815
24/10/2025 09:16:30 1,264 1099.5000 LSE 2044813
24/10/2025 09:16:30 2,645 1100.0000 LSE 2044810
24/10/2025 09:17:13 972 1100.0000 LSE 2045371
24/10/2025 09:17:13 396 1100.0000 LSE 2045369
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24/10/2025 09:17:13 53 1100.0000 LSE 2045365
24/10/2025 09:17:13 57 1100.0000 LSE 2045363
24/10/2025 09:17:13 64 1100.0000 LSE 2045361
24/10/2025 09:18:05 1,139 1101.0000 LSE 2045989
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24/10/2025 09:18:46 356 1100.0000 LSE 2046903
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24/10/2025 09:18:46 2,633 1100.0000 LSE 2046895
24/10/2025 09:18:55 1,365 1099.0000 LSE 2047055
24/10/2025 09:18:55 204 1099.5000 LSE 2047041
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24/10/2025 09:18:55 1,258 1099.5000 LSE 2047037
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24/10/2025 09:18:55 1,258 1099.5000 LSE 2047023
24/10/2025 09:18:55 185 1099.5000 LSE 2047031
24/10/2025 09:18:55 431 1099.5000 LSE 2047027
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24/10/2025 09:18:59 1,195 1099.0000 LSE 2047120
24/10/2025 09:19:35 1,258 1100.0000 LSE 2047539
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24/10/2025 09:22:01 2,798 1102.0000 LSE 2049506
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