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Transaction in Own Shares • Feb 20, 2024
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RNS Number : 6819D
S4 Capital PLC
20 February 2024
20 February 2024
S4 Capital plc
("S4Capital" or the "Company")
Transaction in own shares
In accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 26 January 2024, the Company announces that on 19 February 2024 it purchased 134,641 ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") in the market through Dowgate Capital Limited. The Company intends that the repurchased Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.
| Date of purchase: | 19 February 2024 |
| Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased: | 134,641 |
| Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP): | 0.3906 |
| Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP): | 0.4000 |
| Volume weighted average price paid per Ordinary Share (GBP): | 0.3983 |
Following the repurchase of Ordinary Shares, S4Capital has 583,064,256 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue and one B ordinary share of £1.00 with voting rights in issue. The Company holds 2,475,523 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights attributable to the Ordinary Shares is 580,588,733.
The above figure of 580,588,733 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.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), (as in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme.
Shares purchased: S4 Capital plc (ISIN: GB00BFZZM640)
Individual transactions:
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | Transaction price (GBP) | Time of transaction (UK Time) |
Transaction reference number | Trading venue | |
| 6,133 | 0.4000 | 08:00:46 | 00038059661TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 6,501 | 0.3952 | 10:57:35 | 00038064090TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 947 | 0.3930 | 10:57:35 | 00038064092TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 4,515 | 0.3930 | 10:57:35 | 00038064091TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 6,376 | 0.3906 | 12:25:24 | 00038066400TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,300 | 0.3950 | 13:03:03 | 00038067588TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,518 | 0.3952 | 13:32:28 | 00038068187TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,084 | 0.3952 | 13:32:28 | 00038068186TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,123 | 0.3930 | 14:51:19 | 00038070389TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 73 | 0.3930 | 14:59:30 | 00038070660TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,726 | 0.3936 | 15:17:17 | 00038071190TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 198 | 0.3936 | 15:26:59 | 00038071421TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,179 | 0.3936 | 15:26:59 | 00038071420TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 41 | 0.3936 | 15:48:23 | 00038072025TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 346 | 0.3936 | 15:48:23 | 00038072024TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 56 | 0.3936 | 15:56:00 | 00038072421TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 675 | 0.3936 | 16:02:01 | 00038072715TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,995 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074840TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 5,193 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074839TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,016 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074838TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 600 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074837TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 67 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074836TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,861 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074835TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 4,779 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074834TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,682 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074833TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 4,459 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074832TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 5,387 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074831TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,260 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074830TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,950 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074829TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,149 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074828TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,548 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074827TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 3,690 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074826TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 7,587 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074825TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,572 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074824TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,433 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074823TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 6,729 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074822TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,016 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074821TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 15,453 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074820TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 2,234 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074819TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 1,981 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074818TRLO0 | XLON | |
| 8,209 | 0.4000 | 16:35:25 | 00038074817TRLO0 | XLON |
This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.
Enquiries:
| S4Capital | Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003 |
| Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman) | |
| Powerscourt (PR Adviser to S4Capital) | Tel: +44 (0) 7970 246 725 |
| Elly Williamson | |
| Pete Lambie |
About S4 Capital
S4 Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.
Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&Digital Media and Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure. Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Christopher S. Martin, Scott Spirit and Mary Basterfield all joined the S4 Capital Board as Executive Directors. The S4 Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young and Colin Day.
The Company now has approximately 7,700 people in 32 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 25% and Technology Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of 50%:25%:25%.
Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.
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