Transaction in Own Shares
Shell (SHEL) purchased a total of 1,127,688 shares for cancellation on 10 February 2026 across six trading venues, as part of its existing on‑ and off‑market buy‑back programme announced 5 February 2026.
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Rhea-AI Summary
Shell (SHEL) purchased a total of 1,127,688 shares for cancellation on 10 February 2026 across six trading venues, as part of its existing on‑ and off‑market buy‑back programme announced 5 February 2026.
Purchases were executed on LSE, Chi‑X, BATS, XAMS, CBOE DXE and TQEX with venue VWAPs shown in the table; Morgan Stanley will trade independently for the programme until 1 May 2026.
Positive
- Shares purchased: 1,127,688 on 10 February 2026
- Buy‑back executed across on‑market and off‑market limbs
- Morgan Stanley to trade independently through 01 May 2026
Negative
- None.
Details
News Market Reaction – SHEL
On Feb 10, the day this news came out, SHEL closed 0.13% above the previous close.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus for the Feb 10 session.
Key Figures
- Daily move
- 3.33%
- Price change over the last 24 hours prior to this news
- Buyback size
- $3.5 billion
- Share buyback programme announced Feb 5, 2026
- London buyback tranche
- $1.75 billion
- Portion of $3.5bn programme via London contract
- Netherlands buyback tranche
- $1.75 billion
- Portion of $3.5bn programme via Netherlands contract
- Maximum shares
- 400,000,000 shares
- Maximum ordinary shares under buyback to be cancelled
- Dividend per share
- US$0.372
- Q4 2025 interim dividend per ordinary share
- Dividend per ADS
- US$0.744
- Q4 2025 interim dividend per ADS
- Shares repurchased
- 1,637,748 shares
- Ordinary shares bought back and cancelled on Feb 6, 2026
Historical Context
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Disclosure of 1,637,748 shares repurchased and cancelled under ongoing programme.
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Board selects PwC as future external auditor from 2027, subject to approval.
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Repurchase of 1,588,690 shares for cancellation across UK and EU venues.
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Announcement of $3.5bn buyback split between London and Netherlands contracts.
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Q4 2025 interim dividend announced with per-share and ADS amounts and key dates.
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Key Terms
volume weighted average price technical
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Transaction in Own Shares
10 February 2026
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 10 February 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 |
| 10/02/2026 | 357,254 | 28.7000 | 28.1250 | 28.4169 | LSE | GBP |
| 10/02/2026 | 149,430 | 28.7000 | 28.1400 | 28.4197 | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 10/02/2026 | 60,147 | 28.7000 | 28.1700 | 28.4157 | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 10/02/2026 | 309,593 | 33.1100 | 32.3900 | 32.7148 | XAMS | EUR |
| 10/02/2026 | 216,126 | 33.1000 | 32.3900 | 32.7235 | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 10/02/2026 | 35,138 | 33.1000 | 32.4600 | 32.7354 | 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 05 February 2026.
In respect of this programme, Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc will make trading decisions in relation to the securities independently of the Company for a period from 05 February 2026 up to and including 01 May 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 Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc 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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