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REG - WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

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RNS Number : 6953L  WH Smith PLC  05 June 2025

 WH Smith PLC - Transaction in Own Shares
 05 June 2025

 WH Smith PLC
 Transactions in own shares

 WH Smith PLC (the 'Company') announces the purchase, in accordance with the
 authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on
 29 January 2025, of 45,888 ordinary shares of 22 6/67 pence each ('Shares') on
 05 June 2025 as part of the buyback programme announced on 23 September 2024
 (the 'Programme').

The Company intends to cancel these shares.

Since the announcement of the programme (the 'Programme'), the Company has
 purchased a total of 3,694,270 Ordinary Shares.

The Company has 127,222,664 shares in issue . This number represents the total
 voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the
 denominator for the calculations by which they can determine  if they are
 required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the
 Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and
 Transparency Rules.

The table below contains detailed information about the purchases referred to
 above.

 Schedule of purchases

 Shares purchased:                                          WH Smith PLC (ISIN: GB00B2PDGW16)
 Date of purchases:                                         05 June 2025
 Investment firm:                                           Barclays

 Aggregate information

 Venue                          Aggregated number of ordinary shares purchased          Volume-weighted average price per share         Lowest price per share      Highest price per share
 London Stock Exchange          45,888                                                  10.7286                                         10.6200                     10.7800

 In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No
 596/2014 (as it forms part of domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of
 the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), a full breakdown of the individual
 trades made by Barclays on behalf of the Company is set out below.
 Transaction Time  Time Zone                  Volume        Price         Currency                      Platform Code                   Transaction reference number
 08:07:30          BST                        110           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466469309
 08:07:30          BST                        358           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466469308
 08:07:43          BST                        358           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544630874350
 08:11:50          BST                        55            10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544630944238
 08:11:50          BST                        154           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544630944239
 08:11:51          BST                        119           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466539000
 08:11:51          BST                        267           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544630944599
 08:11:51          BST                        412           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544630944605
 08:11:51          BST                        101           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293466539004
 08:24:50          BST                        88            10.67         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466722387
 08:33:07          BST                        117           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631259643
 08:33:07          BST                        120           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466839400
 08:33:07          BST                        156           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466839401
 08:33:07          BST                        448           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466839402
 08:33:07          BST                        423           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466839409
 08:33:07          BST                        423           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631259646
 08:33:07          BST                        336           10.78         GBP                           XLON                            606211293466839426
 08:49:29          BST                        115           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467106693
 08:50:07          BST                        410           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467115334
 08:50:07          BST                        47            10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631552663
 08:50:07          BST                        100           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631552662
 08:50:07          BST                        350           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631552661
 08:50:08          BST                        143           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631553123
 08:50:08          BST                        354           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631553124
 08:50:09          BST                        27            10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631553156
 09:01:50          BST                        12            10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467283410
 09:01:50          BST                        114           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467283411
 09:01:50          BST                        126           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            592137544631730347
 09:01:50          BST                        126           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467283412
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 09:01:50          BST                        259           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467283416
 09:14:00          BST                        305           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544631917323
 09:14:00          BST                        100           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467460158
 09:20:32          BST                        61            10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467555644
 09:20:32          BST                        77            10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293467555643
 09:32:08          BST                        5             10.72         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632221880
 09:35:32          BST                        118           10.72         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632280886
 09:35:32          BST                        411           10.72         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467803584
 09:35:42          BST                        131           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467806317
 09:35:42          BST                        261           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467806318
 09:35:45          BST                        399           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            606211293467807137
 09:35:45          BST                        267           10.71         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632284544
 09:49:17          BST                        112           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293468006057
 09:54:40          BST                        134           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            606211293468088120
 09:55:50          BST                        355           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            606211293468108928
 09:59:00          BST                        39            10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632654199
 10:00:03          BST                        51            10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632674346
 10:00:03          BST                        327           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632674435
 10:00:03          BST                        418           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632674438
 10:00:03          BST                        153           10.69         GBP                           XLON                            606211293468175450
 10:01:00          BST                        125           10.68         GBP                           XLON                            592137544632690299
 10:22:07          BST                        112           10.7          GBP                           XLON                            592137544633057789
 10:23:49          BST                        113           10.68         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633085491
 10:23:49          BST                        414           10.68         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633085490
 10:23:49          BST                        505           10.68         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633085742
 10:42:04          BST                        156           10.72         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633377687
 10:42:04          BST                        279           10.72         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633377688
 10:50:26          BST                        121           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            606211293468963873
 10:50:26          BST                        337           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            606211293468963875
 10:50:26          BST                        357           10.73         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633502726
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 10:50:26          BST                        100           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633502732
 10:50:26          BST                        328           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            592137544633502733
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 11:58:18          BST                        360           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            606211293469961981
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 11:58:57          BST                        491           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            606211293469970943
 11:58:57          BST                        198           10.74         GBP                           XLON                            592137544634557329
 12:12:01          BST                        122           10.73         GBP                           XLON                            592137544634799496
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 12:12:01          BST                        156           10.73         GBP                           XLON                            606211293470200762
 12:12:01          BST                        295           10.73         GBP                           XLON                            606211293470200764
 13:15:48          BST                        4             10.77         GBP                           XLON                            592137544635875869
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 13:36:16          BST                        116           10.75         GBP                           XLON                            606211293471587999
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