Transaction in Own Shares
Shell plc announced a share buyback on December 8, 2022, purchasing a total of 921,539 shares for cancellation at a volume-weighted average price of £23.3188.
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Shell plc announced a share buyback on December 8, 2022, purchasing a total of 921,539 shares for cancellation at a volume-weighted average price of £23.3188. The buyback is part of an ongoing program initiated on October 27, 2022. Goldman Sachs International will manage trading decisions for the buyback until January 27, 2023. The transactions will adhere to the UK MAR and EU MAR regulations.
Positive
- Acquisition of 921,539 shares may enhance shareholder value through reduced share count.
- Continued commitment to share buyback program signals confidence in financial performance.
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- None.
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Transaction in Own Shares
December 08, 2022
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 08 December 2022 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 |
| 08/12/2022 | 921,539 | LSE | GBP | |||
| 08/12/2022 | - | - | - | - | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 08/12/2022 | - | - | - | - | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 08/12/2022 | 1,000,000 | XAMS | EUR | |||
| 08/12/2022 | - | - | - | - | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 08/12/2022 | - | - | - | - | 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 27 October 2022.
In respect of this programme, Goldman Sachs International will make trading decisions in relation to the securities independently of the Company for a period from 27 October 2022 up to and including 27 January 2023.
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 12 of the 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 Goldman Sachs International on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back programme is detailed below.
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LEI number of Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer’s own shares
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