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S4 CapitalAnnouncement

01/02/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 6130B  S4 Capital PLC  01 February 2024

1 February 2024

S4 Capital plc

("S4Capital" or the "Company")

 

Transaction in own shares

 

In accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 26
January 2024, the Company announces that on 31 January 2024 it purchased
115,735 ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company
("Ordinary Shares") in the market through Dowgate Capital Limited. The Company
intends that the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares
in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

 

 Date of purchase:                                             31 January 2024
 Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:                115,735
 Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                   0.4338
 Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                  0.4442
 Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):  0.4407

 

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,064,256
Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00
with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 117,572 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the
Ordinary Shares is 582,946,684.

 

The above figure of 582,946,684 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, the Company under
the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market
Abuse Regulation), (as in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the table below contains detailed
information of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme.

 

Shares purchased: S4 Capital plc (ISIN: GB00BFZZM640)

 

Individual transactions:

 

 Number of Ordinary Shares purchased  Transaction price (GBP)  Time of transaction  Transaction reference number  Trading venue

                                                               (UK Time)

  4,225                                0.4438                  08:13:14             00037761617TRLO0              XLON
  4,502                                0.4402                  08:15:07             00037761652TRLO0              XLON
  2,010                                0.4412                  08:15:07             00037761651TRLO0              XLON
  2,635                                0.4412                  08:15:07             00037761650TRLO0              XLON
  3,413                                0.4338                  08:16:04             00037761668TRLO0              XLON
  1,173                                0.4338                  08:16:04             00037761667TRLO0              XLON
  1,514                                0.4400                  09:07:02             00037762819TRLO0              XLON
  2,498                                0.4400                  09:07:02             00037762818TRLO0              XLON
  2,240                                0.4390                  12:41:39             00037769158TRLO0              XLON
  2,028                                0.4390                  12:42:02             00037769173TRLO0              XLON
  401                                  0.4378                  13:21:01             00037770731TRLO0              XLON
  4,067                                0.4378                  14:00:01             00037772024TRLO0              XLON
  4,433                                0.4364                  14:56:45             00037774582TRLO0              XLON
  10,000                               0.4364                  14:56:46             00037774584TRLO0              XLON
  1,640                                0.4364                  14:56:46             00037774583TRLO0              XLON
  1,121                                0.4410                  14:56:50             00037774587TRLO0              XLON
  2,976                                0.4410                  14:56:50             00037774586TRLO0              XLON
  2                                    0.4410                  14:56:50             00037774585TRLO0              XLON
  1,612                                0.4418                  14:56:54             00037774589TRLO0              XLON
  982                                  0.4430                  14:57:27             00037774618TRLO0              XLON
  4,042                                0.4430                  14:57:27             00037774617TRLO0              XLON
  4,535                                0.4432                  14:57:27             00037774616TRLO0              XLON
  4,511                                0.4390                  14:58:02             00037774668TRLO0              XLON
  2,513                                0.4366                  14:58:14             00037774676TRLO0              XLON
  139                                  0.4418                  16:14:39             00037778190TRLO0              XLON
  4,200                                0.4418                  16:14:39             00037778189TRLO0              XLON
  4,014                                0.4418                  16:14:39             00037778188TRLO0              XLON
  605                                  0.4430                  16:15:57             00037778258TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  0.4430                  16:15:57             00037778257TRLO0              XLON
  1,400                                0.4430                  16:15:57             00037778256TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  0.4430                  16:15:57             00037778255TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  0.4430                  16:15:57             00037778254TRLO0              XLON
  4,187                                0.4430                  16:16:27             00037778267TRLO0              XLON
  2                                    0.4420                  16:21:43             00037778476TRLO0              XLON
  258                                  0.4420                  16:21:43             00037778475TRLO0              XLON
  30                                   0.4420                  16:21:43             00037778474TRLO0              XLON
  1                                    0.4428                  16:23:08             00037778524TRLO0              XLON
  5,032                                0.4430                  16:23:16             00037778528TRLO0              XLON
  621                                  0.4432                  16:23:19             00037778532TRLO0              XLON
  1,400                                0.4432                  16:23:19             00037778531TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  0.4432                  16:23:19             00037778530TRLO0              XLON
  3,500                                0.4432                  16:23:19             00037778529TRLO0              XLON
  3,694                                0.4430                  16:23:22             00037778534TRLO0              XLON
  867                                  0.4430                  16:23:22             00037778533TRLO0              XLON
  5,290                                0.4430                  16:25:25             00037778637TRLO0              XLON
  4,458                                0.4424                  16:26:29             00037778707TRLO0              XLON
  4,163                                0.4442                  16:28:47             00037778898TRLO0              XLON
  1                                    0.4442                  16:28:47             00037778897TRLO0              XLON

 

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule
12.4.6.

 

Enquiries:

 S(4)Capital                              Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003
 Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)
 Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S(4)Capital)  Tel: +44 (0) 7970 246 725
 Elly Williamson
 Pete Lambie

About S4 Capital

 

S(4) Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital
advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir
Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

 

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services
business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and
millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating
leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&Digital Media and
Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more'
execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.
Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Christopher S. Martin, Scott Spirit and Mary
Basterfield all joined the S4 Capital Board as Executive Directors. The S4
Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue
Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young
and Colin Day.

 

The Company now has approximately 7,700 people in 32 countries with
approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective
is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for
approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 25% and Technology
Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of
50%:25%:25%.

 

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell'
company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services
company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left.
Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi
Company Plc for nine years.

 

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