REG - St. James's Place - Transaction in Own Shares
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For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: https://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20250908:nRSH2938Ya&default-theme=true RNS Number : 2938Y St. James's Place PLC 08 September 2025 Transactions in own shares Further to the announcements made on 31 July 2025 and 11 August 2025 St. James's Place plc (the Company) announces that on 5 September 2025 it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Company, the following number of its ordinary shares of 15 pence each on the London Stock Exchange through Merrill Lynch International. Ordinary Shares: St. James's Place plc - ordinary shares of 15 pence Date of purchase: 5 September 2025 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 186,100 Lowest price per share (pence): 1,198.0000 Highest price per share (pence): 1,230.5000 Average price paid per share (pence): 1,217.1074 The Company intends to cancel the purchased shares. Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 530,885,229 The figure of 530,885,229 may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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 Disclosure and Transparency Rules. In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 as it applies in the UK (the Market Abuse Regulation), a full breakdown of the individual purchases is attached to this announcement. Enquiries: Hugh Taylor, Director - Investor Relations Tel: 07818 075143 Angela Warburton, Director - Communications Tel: 07442 479542 Brunswick Group: Tel: 020 7404 5959 Eilis Murphy Email: sjp@brunswickgroup.com Charles Pretzlik Transaction Date and Time Volume Price Trading Venue Transaction Reference Number (GBp) 05-Sep-2025 08:24:36 15 1222.5 XLON 04800834430TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 08:24:36 210 1222.5 XLON 04800834431TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 08:51:38 207 1223.5 XLON 04801046882TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 08:51:38 348 1224 XLON 04801046881TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 08:52:33 240 1222.5 XLON 04801054934TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:05:56 305 1224 XLON 04801128053TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:29:39 459 1230.5 XLON 04801250764TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:35:40 930 1229.5 XLON 04801277270TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:35:52 747 1228.5 XLON 04801278287TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:35:52 1,055 1228.5 XLON 04801278288TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:53:30 630 1226.5 XLON 04801361723TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 09:55:55 625 1225.5 XLON 04801373532TRLO1 05-Sep-2025 10:05:43 140 1224 XLON 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