Transaction in Own Shares
- Shell continues its share buyback program, demonstrating strong capital return commitment to shareholders
- The buyback program shows confidence in the company's financial position and cash flow generation
- Share cancellation will reduce the number of outstanding shares, potentially increasing earnings per share
- The share buyback reduces the company's cash reserves that could be used for business investments
- Large cash expenditure on buybacks might limit flexibility for other strategic initiatives
Insights
Shell continues execution of its share buyback program with purchases across multiple venues totaling ~1.5 million shares.
Shell's June 11th share repurchases represent another systematic execution of their previously announced buyback program that runs from May 2 through July 25, 2025. The company acquired approximately 760,000 shares in GBP (across LSE, Chi-X, and BATS) and approximately 790,000 shares in EUR (across XAMS, CBOE DXE, and TQEX) for cancellation.
The weighted average purchase prices of £25.86 and €30.67 suggest a disciplined approach to capital return. These buybacks are part of both on-market and off-market repurchase mechanisms, with BNP PARIBAS executing trades independently within pre-established parameters.
Share repurchases typically signal management's confidence in company valuation while potentially enhancing earnings per share metrics by reducing the outstanding share count. For Shell specifically, this continues their commitment to returning value to shareholders through systematic buybacks alongside their dividend program.
The multi-venue execution across six different trading platforms demonstrates sophisticated treasury management aimed at optimizing liquidity and execution prices. This buyback activity represents standard capital allocation for major energy companies generating substantial free cash flow in the current environment, rather than an exceptional development.
Transaction in Own Shares
11 June, 2025
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 11 June, 2025 it purchased the following number of Shares for cancellation.
Aggregated information on Shares purchased according to trading venue:
Date of purchase | Number of Shares purchased | Highest price paid | Lowest price paid | Volume weighted average price paid per share | Venue | Currency |
11/06/2025 | 530,431 | LSE | GBP | |||
11/06/2025 | 134,503 | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP | |||
11/06/2025 | 95,066 | BATS (BXE) | GBP | |||
11/06/2025 | 452,119 | XAMS | EUR | |||
11/06/2025 | 289,254 | CBOE DXE | EUR | |||
11/06/2025 | 48,627 | TQEX | EUR |
These share purchases form part of the on- and off-market limbs of the Company's existing share buy-back programme previously announced on 2 May 2025.
In respect of this programme, BNP PARIBAS SA will make trading decisions in relation to the securities independently of the Company for a period from 2 May 2025 up to and including 25 July 2025.
The on-market limb will be effected within certain pre-set parameters and in accordance with the Company’s general authority to repurchase shares on-market. The off-market limb will be effected in accordance with the Company’s general authority to repurchase shares off-market pursuant to the off-market buyback contract approved by its shareholders and the pre-set parameters set out therein. The programme will be conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 of the UK Listing Rules and Article 5 of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes (“EU MAR”) and EU MAR as “onshored” into UK law from the end of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amended, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time (“UK MAR”) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (the “EU MAR Delegated Regulation”) and the EU MAR Delegated Regulation as “onshored” into UK law from the end of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amended, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time.
In accordance with EU MAR and UK MAR, a breakdown of the individual trades made by BNP PARIBAS SA on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back programme is detailed below.
Enquiries
Media: International +44 (0) 207 934 5550; U.S. and Canada: https://www.shell.us/about-us/news-and-insights/media/submit-an-inquiry.html
LEI number of Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer’s own shares
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