Company Announcements

 

FirstGroup plc

Transaction in own shares

FirstGroup plc ("FirstGroup") announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme (the "Programme") announced on 8 June 2023, it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”) through Liberum Capital Limited.

 

 _______________________________________________
|Date of Purchase                   |09 May 2024|
|___________________________________|___________|
|Number of ordinary shares purchased|241,432    |
|___________________________________|___________|
|Weighted average price paid (p)    |170.11     |
|___________________________________|___________|
|Highest price paid (p)             |171.50     |
|___________________________________|___________|
|Lowest price paid (p)              |169.30     |
|___________________________________|___________|

 

Following the above purchase, FirstGroup holds 116,090,637 Ordinary Shares in treasury. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue excluding shares held as treasury shares is 634,604,378. FirstGroup initially intends to hold the purchased shares as treasury shares but may cancel them in the due course.

 

The total number of voting rights in FirstGroup, excluding treasury shares as at 09 May 2024 is 634,604,378. This figure 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, FirstGroup under the FCA’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contacts at FirstGroup:
                                           Contacts at Brunswick PR:

Marianna Bowes, Head of Investor Relations
David Blizzard, Company Secretary          Andrew Porter / Simone Selzercorporate.comms@firstgroup.co.uk           Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

Contacts at Liberum Capital Limited:       Contacts at RBC Europe Limited:


Nicholas How / John FishleyJames Agnew / Jack Wood
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3100 2000                  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7653 4000

 

Transaction details

Issuer name: FirstGroup PLC

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

ISIN: GB0003452173

Classification: 2.4. Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares

Intermediary name: Liberum Capital Limited

Intermediary Code: RINFGB21XXX

Timezone: GMT

Currency: GBp

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a breakdown of the individual trades made by Liberum Capital Limited on behalf of FirstGroup as part of the Programme is detailed below:

 

 

Aggregate information:  

 ________________________________________________________________
|Venue|Weighted average price (pence per share)|Aggregated volume|
|_____|________________________________________|_________________|
|XLON |170.12                                  |130,106          |
|_____|________________________________________|_________________|
|BATE |170.15                                  |29,209           |
|_____|________________________________________|_________________|
|CHIX |169.99                                  |69,035           |
|_____|________________________________________|_________________|
|TRQX |170.59                                  |13,082           |
|_____|________________________________________|_________________|

 

Individual transactions:

 ___________________________________________
|Transaction Time|Volume|Price(GBp)|Platform|
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:48:13        |1632  |169.90    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:53:20        |500   |170.30    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:53:20        |176   |170.30    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:53:20        |1791  |170.30    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:54:20        |126   |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:54:20        |500   |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:54:20        |74    |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:54:20        |1579  |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|08:55:13        |1697  |170.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:05:42        |2801  |170.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:07:17        |828   |170.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:07:17        |690   |170.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:07:37        |2171  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:07:37        |2107  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:07:37        |3444  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:10:20        |668   |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:10:27        |500   |170.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:10:27        |1500  |170.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:10:27        |525   |170.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:12:06        |1191  |170.70    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:12:15        |3789  |171.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:12:15        |3682  |171.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:15:36        |500   |171.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:15:36        |557   |171.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:15:36        |500   |171.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:15:36        |1145  |171.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:20:27        |47    |170.90    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:20:27        |255   |170.90    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:20:27        |2000  |170.90    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:36        |200   |170.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:39        |645   |170.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:39        |500   |170.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:39        |500   |170.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:39        |921   |170.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:40        |1105  |170.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:41:40        |324   |170.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:46:22        |1566  |170.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:46:22        |47    |170.90    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:46:22        |2499  |171.50    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:46:22        |2528  |170.80    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:06        |3126  |170.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:06        |1864  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:06        |1838  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:06        |589   |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:06        |620   |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:27        |246   |170.20    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:27        |176   |170.20    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:27        |2257  |170.20    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:27        |99    |170.20    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|09:58:27        |2294  |170.20    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:02:39        |2367  |170.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:17:57        |1462  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:23:42        |2685  |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:27:01        |48    |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:42        |2731  |170.20    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |1576  |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |23    |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |500   |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |148   |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |500   |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |1500  |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|10:45:44        |500   |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:12:24        |2282  |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:23:10        |1443  |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:23:10        |797   |170.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:23:10        |764   |170.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:38:10        |2477  |170.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:38:10        |177   |170.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:59:56        |283   |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:59:56        |1000  |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:59:56        |1000  |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|11:59:56        |418   |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:00:27        |2698  |170.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:00:27        |2327  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:01:27        |1471  |170.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:02:27        |1623  |170.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:13:01        |2648  |170.10    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:28:58        |2672  |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:34:37        |2750  |170.10    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:52:36        |385   |170.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|12:52:36        |1873  |170.00    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:10:01        |2362  |170.10    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:15        |1558  |170.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:15        |8903  |170.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:15        |1669  |170.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:15        |120   |170.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:16        |464   |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:16        |1889  |170.50    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:24:27        |3644  |170.40    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:25:01        |2725  |170.40    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:28:15        |1202  |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:28:15        |1169  |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:43:15        |2508  |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:59:15        |1407  |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|13:59:15        |1327  |170.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:05:05        |2468  |170.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:05:05        |2414  |170.20    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:15:21        |1696  |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:15:21        |110   |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:15:21        |2653  |169.90    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:20:39        |1935  |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:32:27        |1677  |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:32:27        |500   |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:32:27        |2138  |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:33:27        |118   |169.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:34:27        |2401  |169.80    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:34:27        |2717  |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:34:27        |1771  |169.70    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:34:27        |754   |169.70    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:46:18        |1     |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:46:18        |524   |169.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:46:22        |500   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:46:22        |500   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:47:11        |216   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:47:11        |500   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:47:11        |669   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:56:20        |946   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|14:56:20        |500   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:14:21        |398   |169.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:14:21        |500   |169.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:14:21        |1708  |169.40    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:15:31        |380   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:17:39        |1272  |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |189   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |2     |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |70    |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |1818  |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |47    |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |164   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:29:27        |572   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:32:14        |1500  |169.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:32:14        |500   |169.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:32:14        |332   |169.60    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |7     |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |1934  |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |2454  |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |1500  |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |871   |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |1542  |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |1207  |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |71    |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:00        |98    |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |3     |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |44    |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |3     |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |81    |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |833   |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |1199  |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |1827  |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |177   |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |1605  |170.00    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |985   |170.20    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:42:01        |1650  |170.20    |TRQX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |233   |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |500   |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |1500  |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |359   |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |607   |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|15:51:30        |1986  |169.80    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:00:30        |1438  |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:06:14        |2326  |169.70    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:06:30        |674   |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:06:30        |1000  |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:07:07        |751   |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:07:41        |1500  |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:07:41        |486   |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:16:30        |166   |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:16:30        |500   |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:16:30        |1000  |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:18:23        |103   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |510   |169.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |985   |169.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |2131  |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |363   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |500   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |500   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |500   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:20:09        |779   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:22:07        |1212  |169.30    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |732   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |379   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |400   |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |760   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |779   |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |1861  |169.60    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |2044  |169.40    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |1000  |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |500   |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:13        |1995  |169.50    |CHIX    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |480   |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |2400  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |500   |169.80    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |500   |169.80    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |500   |169.80    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |806   |169.80    |BATE    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:27        |183   |169.70    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:25:28        |2590  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:28:55        |4253  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:28:55        |1000  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:28:55        |3238  |169.80    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|
|16:29:23        |1678  |169.60    |XLON    |
|________________|______|__________|________|