Transaction in Own Shares
Shell plc (SHEL) purchased a total of 1,313,901 shares for cancellation on 26 January 2026 across LSE and XAMS venues.
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Rhea-AI Summary
Shell plc (SHEL) purchased a total of 1,313,901 shares for cancellation on 26 January 2026 across LSE and XAMS venues. Purchases recorded: 654,933 shares on LSE at a VWAP of £26.8935 and 658,968 shares on XAMS at a VWAP of €31.1419. These transactions form part of the on‑ and off‑market limbs of the Company's existing buy‑back programme announced 30 October 2025. Merrill Lynch International made independent trading decisions for the programme for the period 30 October 2025 to 30 January 2026. Trades were executed in compliance with UK MAR and EU MAR rules.
Positive
- Total repurchased 1,313,901 shares for cancellation
- LSE VWAP of £26.8935 and XAMS VWAP of €31.1419
- Buyback executed under pre‑set parameters and regulatory compliance
Negative
- Purchases may modestly reduce free float and liquidity in short term
Details
News Market Reaction – SHEL
On Jan 26, the day this news came out, SHEL closed 0.68% below the previous close.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus for the Jan 26 session.
Key Figures
- Shares repurchased LSE
- 654,933 shares
- Purchased for cancellation on 26/01/2026 on LSE
- VWAP LSE
- 26.8935 GBP
- Volume weighted average price on LSE 26/01/2026
- Shares repurchased XAMS
- 658,968 shares
- Purchased for cancellation on 26/01/2026 on XAMS
- VWAP XAMS
- 31.1419 EUR
- Volume weighted average price on XAMS 26/01/2026
- 52-week high
- 77.47
- Pre-news 52-week high for SHEL
- 52-week low
- 58.545
- Pre-news 52-week low for SHEL
- Market cap
- 205,137,884,371
- Pre-news market capitalization
- Daily price change
- 1.84%
- Price change over prior 24h before this news
Historical Context
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Disclosure of 1,547,847 shares repurchased across LSE and XAMS for cancellation.
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Announcement of 1,320,967 shares bought back on LSE and XAMS under programme.
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Report of LSE and XAMS buy-backs under existing 30 Oct 2025 programme.
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Notification of LSE and XAMS repurchases within pre-set parameters and UK MAR.
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Update on 1,677,480 shares cancelled across LSE and XAMS under buy-back.
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Key Terms
on- and off-market financial
EU MAR regulatory
UK MAR regulatory
off-market buyback contract financial
UK Listing Rules regulatory
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Transaction in Own Shares
26 January, 2026
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 26 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 |
| 26/01/2026 | 654,933 | 27.0700 | 26.7500 | 26.8935 | LSE | GBP |
| 26/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 26/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 26/01/2026 | 658,968 | 31.3500 | 30.9650 | 31.1419 | XAMS | EUR |
| 26/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 26/01/2026 | - | - | - | - | 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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