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RNS Number : 4286G  S4 Capital PLC  12 March 2024

12 March 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 11 March 2024 it purchased 151,030
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:                                             11 March 2024
 Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:                151,030
 Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                   0.3806
 Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):                  0.3944
 Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP):  0.3881

 

Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,491,444
Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00
with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 6,000,000 Ordinary Shares in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the
Ordinary Shares is 577,491,444.

 

The above figure of 577,491,444 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)

  7,072                                0.3944                  08:29:54             00038438118TRLO0              XLON
  4,439                                0.3850                  09:33:01             00038439937TRLO0              XLON
  2,808                                0.3850                  09:33:01             00038439936TRLO0              XLON
  661                                  0.3806                  09:39:34             00038440104TRLO0              XLON
  3,177                                0.3806                  09:46:28             00038440247TRLO0              XLON
  662                                  0.3806                  10:02:22             00038441235TRLO0              XLON
  790                                  0.3806                  10:07:00             00038441523TRLO0              XLON
  195                                  0.3806                  10:08:01             00038441601TRLO0              XLON
  195                                  0.3806                  10:24:00             00038442289TRLO0              XLON
  576                                  0.3806                  10:25:59             00038442364TRLO0              XLON
  224                                  0.3806                  10:36:21             00038442739TRLO0              XLON
  489                                  0.3806                  10:36:21             00038442738TRLO0              XLON
  195                                  0.3806                  10:54:43             00038443695TRLO0              XLON
  230                                  0.3806                  10:59:05             00038443839TRLO0              XLON
  839                                  0.3806                  10:59:05             00038443838TRLO0              XLON
  2,700                                0.3806                  10:59:55             00038443864TRLO0              XLON
  943                                  0.3806                  10:59:55             00038443863TRLO0              XLON
  1,584                                0.3806                  10:59:55             00038443862TRLO0              XLON
  195                                  0.3806                  11:21:09             00038444740TRLO0              XLON
  6,850                                0.3848                  12:26:35             00038446980TRLO0              XLON
  413                                  0.3806                  12:27:00             00038446990TRLO0              XLON
  195                                  0.3818                  12:59:56             00038447965TRLO0              XLON
  367                                  0.3858                  13:27:53             00038448675TRLO0              XLON
  246                                  0.3858                  13:27:53             00038448674TRLO0              XLON
  6,725                                0.3858                  13:51:54             00038450941TRLO0              XLON
  3,746                                0.3858                  13:51:54             00038450940TRLO0              XLON
  3,065                                0.3858                  13:51:54             00038450939TRLO0              XLON
  7,207                                0.3832                  14:00:00             00038451344TRLO0              XLON
  1,911                                0.3820                  14:00:01             00038451349TRLO0              XLON
  1,700                                0.3820                  14:00:01             00038451348TRLO0              XLON
  1,700                                0.3820                  14:00:01             00038451347TRLO0              XLON
  1,700                                0.3820                  14:00:01             00038451346TRLO0              XLON
  722                                  0.3820                  14:00:01             00038451345TRLO0              XLON
  7,876                                0.3862                  14:59:50             00038454691TRLO0              XLON
  7,586                                0.3918                  15:28:46             00038456806TRLO0              XLON
  5,001                                0.3916                  15:45:53             00038457934TRLO0              XLON
  6,003                                0.3876                  15:59:51             00038458959TRLO0              XLON
  3                                    0.3876                  15:59:51             00038458958TRLO0              XLON
  935                                  0.3876                  15:59:51             00038458957TRLO0              XLON
  4,843                                0.3878                  16:09:43             00038459981TRLO0              XLON
  21,041                               0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462083TRLO0              XLON
  4,709                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462082TRLO0              XLON
  846                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462081TRLO0              XLON
  2,593                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462080TRLO0              XLON
  3,608                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462079TRLO0              XLON
  4                                    0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462078TRLO0              XLON
  2,092                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462077TRLO0              XLON
  619                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462076TRLO0              XLON
  8,751                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462075TRLO0              XLON
  130                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462074TRLO0              XLON
  1,971                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462073TRLO0              XLON
  205                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462072TRLO0              XLON
  20                                   0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462071TRLO0              XLON
  3,539                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462070TRLO0              XLON
  104                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462069TRLO0              XLON
  316                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462068TRLO0              XLON
  312                                  0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462067TRLO0              XLON
  73                                   0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462066TRLO0              XLON
  16                                   0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462065TRLO0              XLON
  3,313                                0.3916                  16:35:26             00038462064TRLO0              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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