Transaction in Own Shares

Source: RNS
RNS Number : 0172V
Airtel Africa PLC
03 March 2026
 

 

 

Airtel Africa plc

 

('Airtel Africa', or the 'Company')

 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

London and Lagos, 03 March 2026: Airtel Africa announces today it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of USD 0.50 each from Barclays Capital Securities Limited pursuant to the authority granted by its shareholders as part of its share buy-back programme, details of which were announced on 22 September 2025.

Aggregate information:

Date of purchase

02 March 2026

Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:

60,000

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

342.40p

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

359.20p

Volume weighted average price paid (GBp):

353.57p

 

The purchased ordinary shares will be held in treasury by the Company.

 

Following the purchase of these ordinary shares, the remaining ordinary shares of USD 0.50 each in issue will be 3,654,881,028, including 9,438,490 treasury shares. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 3,645,442,538. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether 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 purchases were made pursuant to the revised arrangements entered into with Barclays Capital Securities Limited announced on 22 September 2025.

Aggregate information on shares purchased according to trading venues:

 

Venue

Volume-weighted average price

Aggregated volume

Lowest price per share

Highest price per share

London Stock Exchange

353.34

53,933

342.40

358.80

BATS Europe

354.64

1,578

354.20

355.00

CHI-X Europe

355.88

4,489

353.80

359.20

 

Since the commencement of the first tranche of the $100m share buy-back programme announced on 23 December 2024, the Company has purchased  43,874,166 ordinary shares in aggregate, at a volume weighted average price of 164.9203 GBp per ordinary share.

 

The table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by Barclays Capital Securities Limited as part of the buy-back programme.

 

Individual transactions:

 

Transaction Date

Time

Volume

Currency

Price

Trading Venue

Transaction Reference

02/03/2026

08:09:43

2187

GBp

344.2000

XLON

592103935665657000

02/03/2026

08:11:43

780

GBp

342.4000

XLON

592103935665771000

02/03/2026

08:16:30

1023

GBp

344.8000

XLON

592103935666039000

02/03/2026

08:22:05

1085

GBp

345.8000

XLON

606177688226115000

02/03/2026

08:31:51

806

GBp

344.4000

XLON

606177688226484000

02/03/2026

08:42:35

1074

GBp

345.0000

XLON

592103935667013000

02/03/2026

08:48:33

292

GBp

346.4000

XLON

592103935667183000

02/03/2026

08:52:24

922

GBp

347.2000

XLON

592103935667289000

02/03/2026

08:57:30

822

GBp

349.0000

XLON

606177688227197000

02/03/2026

09:20:40

646

GBp

351.8000

XLON

606177688227830000

02/03/2026

09:20:40

566

GBp

351.8000

XLON

606177688227830000

02/03/2026

09:39:25

823

GBp

352.8000

XLON

592103935668561000

02/03/2026

09:40:27

903

GBp

352.4000

XLON

592103935668594000

02/03/2026

09:50:48

912

GBp

349.8000

XLON

592103935668859000

02/03/2026

10:18:28

2018

GBp

352.8000

XLON

592103935669564000

02/03/2026

10:40:26

1582

GBp

353.6000

XLON

606177688229771000

02/03/2026

10:50:15

1082

GBp

353.4000

XLON

606177688229996000

02/03/2026

11:02:38

944

GBp

353.8000

CHIX

592103935670659000

02/03/2026

11:21:06

934

GBp

353.8000

XLON

606177688230631000

02/03/2026

11:50:37

1598

GBp

354.2000

XLON

592103935671663000

02/03/2026

12:02:01

925

GBp

353.8000

XLON

606177688231463000

02/03/2026

12:13:23

1135

GBp

353.4000

XLON

606177688231696000

02/03/2026

12:28:36

1075

GBp

352.0000

XLON

606177688232007000

02/03/2026

12:38:03

792

GBp

350.6000

XLON

592103935672682000

02/03/2026

13:20:58

706

GBp

354.2000

CHIX

592103935673670000

02/03/2026

13:20:58

1017

GBp

354.2000

XLON

592103935673670000

02/03/2026

13:20:58

706

GBp

354.2000

BATE

606177688233127000

02/03/2026

13:30:15

1018

GBp

354.4000

XLON

592103935673905000

02/03/2026

13:40:36

982

GBp

353.6000

XLON

606177688233628000

02/03/2026

13:55:15

1399

GBp

354.4000

XLON

592103935674582000

02/03/2026

14:04:12

928

GBp

354.2000

XLON

606177688234234000

02/03/2026

14:11:24

996

GBp

354.0000

XLON

592103935675051000

02/03/2026

14:22:44

1139

GBp

353.8000

XLON

606177688234739000

02/03/2026

14:30:33

1514

GBp

354.6000

XLON

592103935675665000

02/03/2026

14:33:19

889

GBp

355.8000

XLON

592103935675818000

02/03/2026

14:37:31

1344

GBp

356.6000

XLON

606177688235410000

02/03/2026

14:43:28

1206

GBp

356.0000

XLON

606177688235717000

02/03/2026

14:50:34

767

GBp

356.2000

XLON

606177688236035000

02/03/2026

14:50:34

621

GBp

356.2000

XLON

606177688236035000

02/03/2026

14:55:10

909

GBp

355.6000

XLON

606177688236228000

02/03/2026

14:59:21

164

GBp

356.6000

XLON

592103935677099000

02/03/2026

14:59:21

704

GBp

356.6000

XLON

592103935677099000

02/03/2026

15:09:20

2304

GBp

358.2000

XLON

592103935677544000

02/03/2026

15:15:48

238

GBp

357.6000

XLON

606177688237088000

02/03/2026

15:15:48

1132

GBp

357.6000

XLON

606177688237088000

02/03/2026

15:22:30

1544

GBp

354.4000

XLON

606177688237351000

02/03/2026

15:30:51

706

GBp

355.0000

XLON

592103935678382000

02/03/2026

15:30:51

729

GBp

355.0000

CHIX

606177688237656000

02/03/2026

15:36:04

872

GBp

355.0000

BATE

606177688237846000

02/03/2026

15:41:19

889

GBp

355.6000

CHIX

606177688238024000

02/03/2026

15:47:54

1556

GBp

357.2000

XLON

606177688238234000

02/03/2026

15:52:29

1174

GBp

357.4000

XLON

606177688238382000

02/03/2026

15:57:36

986

GBp

357.0000

XLON

606177688238551000

02/03/2026

16:01:21

1672

GBp

357.0000

XLON

606177688238686000

02/03/2026

16:05:44

1135

GBp

357.2000

XLON

592103935679629000

02/03/2026

16:14:00

1221

GBp

359.2000

CHIX

592103935679982000

02/03/2026

16:16:43

1907

GBp

358.8000

XLON

592103935680117000

 

 

Enquiries

 

Airtel Africa - Investor Relations

Alastair Jones

Investor.relations@africa.airtel.com

 

+44 7464 830 011

+44 207 493 9315



 

Airtel Africa - Group Company Secretary

Simon O'Hara

 

 

 

+44 207 493 9315

 

 

 

About Airtel Africa

Airtel Africa is a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with operations in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Airtel Africa provides an integrated offer to its subscribers, including mobile voice and data services as well as mobile money services both nationally and internationally. The company's strategy is focused on providing a great customer experience across the entire footprint, enabling our corporate purpose of transforming lives across Africa.

 

www.airtel.africa

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