REG - S4 Capital PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

S4 CapitalAnnouncement

02/02/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 7806B  S4 Capital PLC  02 February 2024

2 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 1 February 2024 it purchased
94,256 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:                                             1 February 2024
 Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:                94,256
 Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                   0.4208
 Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                  0.4430
 Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):  0.4324

 

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 211,828 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the
Ordinary Shares is 582,852,428.

 

The above figure of 582,852,428 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)

  4,902                                44.30                   08:00:29             00037780132TRLO0              XLON
  2,464                                44.00                   10:54:02             00037786786TRLO0              XLON
  178                                  44.00                   11:19:30             00037787632TRLO0              XLON
  1,765                                44.00                   11:19:30             00037787633TRLO0              XLON
  420                                  43.48                   11:19:31             00037787634TRLO0              XLON
  4,345                                43.48                   11:19:31             00037787635TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794465TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794466TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794467TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794468TRLO0              XLON
  700                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794469TRLO0              XLON
  578                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794470TRLO0              XLON
  3,830                                43.72                   14:24:08             00037794471TRLO0              XLON
  198                                  43.72                   14:24:08             00037794472TRLO0              XLON
  7,808                                43.74                   14:24:08             00037794473TRLO0              XLON
  1,690                                43.28                   14:32:13             00037795302TRLO0              XLON
  2,709                                43.28                   14:32:13             00037795303TRLO0              XLON
  4,600                                43.38                   14:52:24             00037796777TRLO0              XLON
  2,464                                43.14                   15:33:02             00037799450TRLO0              XLON
  1,716                                43.14                   15:33:02             00037799451TRLO0              XLON
  4,552                                43.02                   15:55:13             00037801416TRLO0              XLON
  4,237                                43.00                   15:55:15             00037801417TRLO0              XLON
  3,135                                43.00                   15:55:19             00037801427TRLO0              XLON
  1,760                                43.00                   15:55:19             00037801428TRLO0              XLON
  3,239                                43.00                   15:56:02             00037801532TRLO0              XLON
  2,476                                43.00                   15:56:02             00037801533TRLO0              XLON
  9,427                                43.28                   16:05:15             00037802300TRLO0              XLON
  4,293                                43.28                   16:05:15             00037802301TRLO0              XLON
  4,569                                42.78                   16:13:56             00037802904TRLO0              XLON
  839                                  42.08                   16:24:18             00037804046TRLO0              XLON
  2,798                                42.22                   16:24:25             00037804079TRLO0              XLON
  722                                  42.38                   16:27:37             00037804585TRLO0              XLON
  4,446                                42.38                   16:27:37             00037804586TRLO0              XLON
  2,554                                42.38                   16:27:37             00037804587TRLO0              XLON
  2,042                                42.38                   16:27:37             00037804588TRLO0              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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