St. James's Place PLC Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2057E

St. James's Place PLC

16 September 2024

 

Transactions in own shares

 

Further to the announcements made on 30 July 2024 and 27 August 2024 St. James's Place plc (the Company) announces that on 13 September 2024 it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the Company, the following number of its ordinary shares of 15 pence each on the London Stock Exchange through J.P. Morgan Securities plc.

 

Ordinary Shares:	St. James's Place plc - ordinary shares of 15 pence
Date of purchase:	13 September 2024
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	333,850
Lowest price per share (pence):	715.0000
Highest price per share (pence):	724.0000
Average price paid per share (pence)	720.3722

 

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 544,014,711.

 

The figure of 544,014,711 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.

 

The Company announces that, following the purchase of these shares, the share buy-back programme announced on 30 July 2024 has completed. Since the commencement of the share buy-back programme on 27 August 2024, the Company has purchased 4,590,083 ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange in aggregate at a volume weighted average price of 716.7626p per ordinary share for a total consideration of £32.9 million.

 

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.

 

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/2057E_1-2024-9-13.pdf

 

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