Transaction in Own Shares
Shell (SHEL) purchased shares for cancellation on 15 January 2026 under its existing buy-back programme.
Rhea-AI Summary
Shell (SHEL) purchased shares for cancellation on 15 January 2026 under its existing buy-back programme. Aggregated executed volumes reported: 658,369 shares on LSE at a volume-weighted average price of £27.3406, and 650,893 shares on XAMS at a volume-weighted average price of €31.6014. Purchases on other listed venues showed no trades that day. The buy-back programme runs from 30 October 2025 to 30 January 2026, with Merrill Lynch International making independent trading decisions within pre-set parameters. Transactions comply with UK MAR, EU MAR (as onshored) and Chapter 9 of the UK Listing Rules.
Positive
- Purchased 658,369 shares on LSE at VWAP £27.3406
- Purchased 650,893 shares on XAMS at VWAP €31.6014
- Buy-back conducted under programme running 30 Oct 2025–30 Jan 2026 with Merrill Lynch trading independently
Negative
- None.
Key Figures
- Current price
- $74.35
- SHEL pre-news price
- 52-week range
- $58.545–$77.47
- SHEL 52-week low to high
- Shares cancelled
- 1,677,480 shares
- Buy-back on 13 Jan 2026
- Shares cancelled
- 1,961,992 shares
- Buy-back on 12 Jan 2026
- Shares cancelled
- 2,089,933 shares
- Buy-back on 09 Jan 2026
- Shares cancelled
- 2,433,525 shares
- Buy-back on 08 Jan 2026
- Monthly buy-backs
- 34.2 million shares
- Cumulative cancellations in June 2025
- Q4 emissions cash outflow
- $1.5bn
- German emissions certificates Q4 2025
Historical Context
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Disclosure of 1,677,480 shares repurchased and cancelled under buy-back programme.
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Update on 1,961,992 shares repurchased and cancelled across LSE and XAMS.
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Report of 2,089,933 shares bought back across multiple venues for cancellation.
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Large 2,433,525-share buy-back update coincided with a negative price move.
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Q4 2025 update with below break-even Chemicals and sizeable cash outflows.
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
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Transaction in Own Shares
15 January, 2026
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 15 January, 2026 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 |
| 15/01/2026 | 658,369 | 27.5400 | 27.0000 | 27.3406 | LSE | GBP |
| 15/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 15/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 15/01/2026 | 650,893 | 31.8150 | 31.2650 | 31.6014 | XAMS | EUR |
| 15/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 15/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | 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 30 October 2025.
In respect of this programme, Merrill Lynch International will make trading decisions in relation to the securities independently of the Company for a period from 30 October 2025 up to and including 30 January 2026.
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 Merrill Lynch International 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
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