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S4 CapitalAnnouncement

07/02/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 2494C  S4 Capital PLC  07 February 2024

7 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 6 February 2024 it purchased
134,984 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:                                             6 February 2024
 Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:                134,984
 Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                   0.3932
 Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                  0.4116
 Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):  0.4061

 

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 900,359 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the
Ordinary Shares is 582,163,897.

 

The above figure of 582,163,897 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)

  6,565                                0.4100                  08:00:08             00037850047TRLO0              XLON
  5,348                                0.3986                  10:00:58             00037855785TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3986                  10:00:58             00037855784TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3986                  10:00:58             00037855783TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3958                  10:17:02             00037856358TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3958                  10:17:02             00037856357TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3958                  10:17:02             00037856356TRLO0              XLON
  800                                  0.3958                  10:17:02             00037856355TRLO0              XLON
  1,500                                0.3932                  10:44:26             00037856919TRLO0              XLON
  2,057                                0.3932                  10:44:26             00037856918TRLO0              XLON
  7,287                                0.3932                  10:44:26             00037856917TRLO0              XLON
  7,305                                0.4000                  12:18:58             00037859407TRLO0              XLON
  4,648                                0.4024                  13:57:02             00037861610TRLO0              XLON
  2,489                                0.4024                  13:57:02             00037861609TRLO0              XLON
  2,420                                0.4006                  14:12:02             00037862012TRLO0              XLON
  3,009                                0.4006                  14:12:02             00037862011TRLO0              XLON
  1,187                                0.4006                  14:12:02             00037862010TRLO0              XLON
  4,481                                0.3962                  14:12:04             00037862018TRLO0              XLON
  2,468                                0.3962                  14:12:13             00037862023TRLO0              XLON
  6,728                                0.4044                  15:35:42             00037867143TRLO0              XLON
  1,735                                0.4082                  16:20:11             00037869464TRLO0              XLON
  7,042                                0.4116                  16:27:23             00037870021TRLO0              XLON
  2,697                                0.4090                  16:29:51             00037870203TRLO0              XLON
  747                                  0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870369TRLO0              XLON
  17                                   0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870368TRLO0              XLON
  3,173                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870367TRLO0              XLON
  5,538                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870366TRLO0              XLON
  4,414                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870365TRLO0              XLON
  1,443                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870364TRLO0              XLON
  2,680                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870363TRLO0              XLON
  4,168                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870362TRLO0              XLON
  1,069                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870361TRLO0              XLON
  40                                   0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870360TRLO0              XLON
  3,748                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870359TRLO0              XLON
  1,773                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870358TRLO0              XLON
  31,145                               0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870357TRLO0              XLON
  1,263                                0.4116                  16:35:03             00037870356TRLO0              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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