Transaction in Own Shares
Shell plc (SHEL) announced on 19 December 2025 that it purchased shares for cancellation under its existing buy‑back programme.
Rhea-AI Summary
Shell plc (SHEL) announced on 19 December 2025 that it purchased shares for cancellation under its existing buy‑back programme.
Aggregated trades on 19/12/2025: 969,970 shares on LSE at a VWAP of £26.8356 (price range £26.5750–£27.0200) and 997,696 shares on XAMS at a VWAP of €30.6483 (price range €30.4000–€30.9000), totalling 1,967,666 shares purchased for cancellation.
Trades were made by Merrill Lynch International independently under the company’s on‑ and off‑market buy‑back authorities; the programme runs through 30 January 2026 and complies with UK MAR and EU MAR onshored rules.
Positive
- Total shares purchased for cancellation: 1,967,666 on 19 Dec 2025
- LSE VWAP £26.8356 and XAMS VWAP €30.6483
- Purchases executed by Merrill Lynch International under authorised buy‑back programme through 30 Jan 2026
Negative
- None.
Details
News Market Reaction – SHEL
On Dec 19, the day this news came out, SHEL closed 1.00% above the previous close.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus for the Dec 19 session.
Key Figures
- LSE shares bought
- 969,970 shares
- Repurchased for cancellation on 19 Dec 2025 at LSE
- LSE VWAP
- 26.8356 GBP
- Volume weighted average price on 19 Dec 2025 LSE trades
- LSE price range
- 26.5750–27.0200 GBP
- Lowest to highest price paid on LSE 19 Dec 2025
- XAMS shares bought
- 997,696 shares
- Repurchased for cancellation on 19 Dec 2025 at XAMS
- XAMS VWAP
- 30.6483 EUR
- Volume weighted average price on 19 Dec 2025 XAMS trades
- XAMS price range
- 30.4000–30.9000 EUR
- Lowest to highest price paid on XAMS 19 Dec 2025
- Programme window
- 30 Oct 2025–30 Jan 2026
- Period where Merrill Lynch trades independently under buy-back
- Current price
- $71.31
- Pre-news price, about 7.95% below 52-week high $77.47
Historical Context
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Disclosure of 1,504,212 shares repurchased and cancelled on 17 Dec 2025.
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Report of 2,393,719 shares bought back across LSE and XAMS venues.
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Announcement of 1,512,085 shares repurchased for cancellation on 15 Dec.
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Disclosure of 1,518,111 shares cancelled as part of ongoing programme.
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Report of 1,509,607 shares repurchased under existing buy-back plan.
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
19 December, 2025
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 19 December, 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 |
| 19/12/2025 | 969,970 | 27.0200 | 26.5750 | 26.8356 | LSE | GBP |
| 19/12/2025 | - | - | - | - | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 19/12/2025 | - | - | - | - | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 19/12/2025 | 997,696 | 30.9000 | 30.4000 | 30.6483 | XAMS | EUR |
| 19/12/2025 | - | - | - | - | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 19/12/2025 | - | - | - | - | 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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