Balfour Beatty PLC Transaction in Own Shares (4763O)

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Balfour Beatty PLC

01 February 2023

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

Wednesday 1(st) February 2023

Balfour Beatty plc (the "Group" or "Balfour Beatty"), the international infrastructure group, announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 3 January 2023 (the "Share Buyback"), the Group purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 50 pence each through Numis Securities Limited.

 
 Date of purchase:                               31 January 2023 
 Aggregate number of ordinary shares of 50 
  pence each purchased:                          249,327 
 Highest price paid per share (GBp):             368.40 
 Lowest price paid per share (GBp):              365.80 
 Volume weighted average price paid per share 
  (GBp):                                         367.2354 
 

The Group will hold the repurchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 582,161,993 (excluding treasury shares).

The Group has, under the Share Buyback, repurchased 5,272,414 ordinary shares at a volume weighted average price of 357.7690 pence, which are to be held in treasury with no voting rights attached. The shares repurchased under the Share Buyback are the only shares held in Treasury by the Group. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 582,161,993. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Balfour Beatty plc under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the table available on the Company's website here contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Numis Securities Limited as part of the Share Buyback.

Aggregated information of ordinary shares purchased according to each trading venue:

 
         Venue            Weighted average     Aggregate number      Lowest price       Highest 
                           price paid per     of shares purchased    paid per share    price paid 
                             share (GBp)                                 (GBp)         per share 
                                                                                         (GBp) 
 London Stock Exchange        367.1434             171,327              365.80          368.40 
                         -----------------  ---------------------  ----------------  ------------ 
       Turquoise              367.4797              8,000               367.00          368.00 
                         -----------------  ---------------------  ----------------  ------------ 
      Chi-X (CXE)             367.4500              20,000              366.60          368.00 
                         -----------------  ---------------------  ----------------  ------------ 
       BATS (BXE)             367.4256              50,000              366.20          368.20 
                         -----------------  ---------------------  ----------------  ------------ 
 

Investor and analyst enquiries:

Jim Ryan

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Media enquiries:

Antonia Walton

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Notes to editors:

-- Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with 24,500 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.

-- We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.

-- Over the last 113 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including: the GBP1.5 billion A14 improvement scheme - Britain's biggest road project; Hong Kong's HK$5.5 billion world-class harbour theatre project for the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; and the 12.5 mile $429 million North Metro Commuter Rail line in Colorado, US.

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