Serco Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (7954A)

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RNS Number : 7954A

Serco Group PLC

04 June 2021

4 June 2021

Serco Group plc

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300PT2CIHYN5GWJ21

Transactions in own shares

Serco Group plc (the 'Company') announces the purchase of 523,879 ordinary shares of 2 pence each (the 'Ordinary Shares') through J.P. Morgan Securities plc on 3 June 2021.

The Company intends to hold all of the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Since the announcement of the share buy-back programme on 31 December 2020 (the 'Programme'), the Company has purchased a total of 29,393,280 Ordinary Shares.

Following the transactions referred to in this announcement, the Company holds 29,393,280 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 1,203,987,357 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). The total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights will be 1,203,987,357 which 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.

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

Schedule of Purchases

 
 Shares purchased:    Serco Group plc (ISIN: GB0007973794) 
 Date of purchases:   3 June 2021 
 Investment firm:     J.P. Morgan Securities plc 
 

Aggregate information:

 
     Venue       Aggregated number   Volume-weighted   Lowest price    Highest 
                    of ordinary       average price      per share     price per 
                  shares purchased      per share                        share 
 London Stock 
    Exchange          523,879           135.1124         134.3000      136.1000 
                ------------------  ----------------  -------------  ----------- 
 

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For further information please contact:

Paul Checketts, Head of Investor Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail]

Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail]

About Serco

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at www.serco.com .

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