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Shell announces commencement of a share buyback programme

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Shell plc announces a $3.5 billion share buyback programme to be completed before Q4 2024 results announcement on January 30, 2025. The programme aims to reduce issued share capital through share cancellation. The buyback consists of two contracts: a $2.1 billion London contract and a $1.4 billion Netherlands contract, with a maximum limit of 525,000,000 ordinary shares. The programme will be executed through an independent broker on various exchanges including London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam, and other platforms, subject to market conditions and regulatory compliance.

Shell plc annuncia un programma di riacquisto di azioni da 3,5 miliardi di dollari da completare entro l'annuncio dei risultati del quarto trimestre 2024, previsto per il 30 gennaio 2025. L'obiettivo del programma è ridurre il capitale azionario emesso attraverso la cancellazione delle azioni. Il riacquisto consiste in due contratti: un contratto di 2,1 miliardi di dollari a Londra e un contratto di 1,4 miliardi di dollari nei Paesi Bassi, con un limite massimo di 525.000.000 azioni ordinarie. Il programma sarà eseguito tramite un broker indipendente su varie borse, inclusa la Borsa di Londra, Euronext Amsterdam e altre piattaforme, in conformità alle condizioni di mercato e alle normative vigenti.

Shell plc anuncia un programa de recompra de acciones de 3.5 mil millones de dólares que se completará antes del anuncio de resultados del cuarto trimestre de 2024, programado para el 30 de enero de 2025. Este programa tiene como objetivo reducir el capital social emitido mediante la cancelación de acciones. La recompra consta de dos contratos: un contrato de 2.1 mil millones de dólares en Londres y un contrato de 1.4 mil millones de dólares en los Países Bajos, con un límite máximo de 525,000,000 acciones ordinarias. El programa se ejecutará a través de un corredor independiente en varias bolsas, incluidas la Bolsa de Londres, Euronext Ámsterdam y otras plataformas, sujeto a las condiciones del mercado y al cumplimiento normativo.

셸 plc35억 달러 규모의 자사주 매입 프로그램을 발표했으며, 이 프로그램은 2025년 1월 30일 2024년 4분기 결과 발표 전에 완료될 예정입니다. 이 프로그램의 목표는 주식 취소를 통해 발행 주식 자본을 축소하는 것입니다. 매입은 두 개의 계약으로 구성되어 있습니다: 21억 달러 규모의 런던 계약14억 달러 규모의 네덜란드 계약, 최대 5억 2500만 주의 보통주에 제한됩니다. 이 프로그램은 런던 증권 거래소, 유로넥스트 암스테르담 등 다양한 거래소에서 독립 중개인을 통해 실행되며, 시장 상황 및 규제 준수에 따라 다를 수 있습니다.

Shell plc annonce un programme de rachat d'actions de 3,5 milliards de dollars à compléter avant l'annonce des résultats du quatrième trimestre 2024, prévue pour le 30 janvier 2025. L'objectif du programme est de réduire le capital social émis par l'annulation d'actions. Le rachat se compose de deux contrats : un contrat de 2,1 milliards de dollars à Londres et un contrat de 1,4 milliard de dollars aux Pays-Bas, avec une limite maximale de 525 000 000 actions ordinaires. Le programme sera exécuté par l'intermédiaire d'un courtier indépendant sur diverses bourses, y compris la Bourse de Londres, Euronext Amsterdam et d'autres plateformes, sous réserve des conditions du marché et de la conformité réglementaire.

Shell plc gibt ein Aktienrückkaufprogramm in Höhe von 3,5 Milliarden US-Dollar bekannt, das vor der Bekanntgabe der Ergebnisse des vierten Quartals 2024 am 30. Januar 2025 abgeschlossen sein soll. Ziel des Programms ist es, das ausgegebene Aktienkapital durch Aktienrücknahme zu reduzieren. Der Rückkauf besteht aus zwei Verträgen: einem Londoner Vertrag über 2,1 Milliarden US-Dollar und einem Vertrag aus den Niederlanden über 1,4 Milliarden US-Dollar mit einer Höchstgrenze von 525.000.000 Stammaktien. Das Programm wird über einen unabhängigen Broker an verschiedenen Börsen, einschließlich der London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam und anderen Plattformen, ausgeführt, wobei Marktbedingungen und regulatorische Anforderungen zu beachten sind.

Positive
  • Substantial $3.5 billion share buyback program announced
  • All repurchased shares will be cancelled, reducing share count
  • Program demonstrates strong capital return to shareholders
Negative
  • Significant cash outflow of $3.5 billion reduces company's liquid assets

Insights

Shell's latest $3.5 billion share buyback program represents a significant capital return initiative, demonstrating strong cash flow generation and commitment to shareholder returns. The program's structured approach, split between $2.1 billion for London markets and $1.4 billion for Netherlands exchanges, shows careful market consideration to maintain liquidity across key trading venues.

The three-month completion timeline and cap of 525 million shares provides clear parameters for market participants to gauge potential price impact. This buyback follows Shell's consistent pattern of capital returns, supporting share price stability through reduced float and improved earnings per share metrics. The timing ahead of Q4 2024 results suggests confidence in the company's financial position and operational performance.

The buyback's dual-market structure reveals Shell's strategic approach to maintaining balanced market presence post-Brexit. The program's size relative to Shell's $201.4 billion market cap (1.7%) is substantial enough to impact trading dynamics while managing market impact through careful execution parameters.

The independent broker arrangement and strict regulatory compliance framework under both UK and EU regulations demonstrates strong corporate governance. This systematic approach to capital return helps maintain Shell's position as a stable blue-chip investment, particularly appealing to institutional investors seeking predictable capital return policies alongside dividend income.

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Shell announces commencement of a share buyback programme

October 31, 2024

Shell plc (the ‘Company’) today announces the commencement of a $3.5 billion share buyback programme covering an aggregate contract term of approximately three months (the ‘programme’). The purpose of the programme is to reduce the issued share capital of the Company. All shares repurchased as part of the programme will be cancelled. It is intended that, subject to market conditions, the programme will be completed prior to the Company’s Q4 2024 results announcement, scheduled for January 30, 2025.

The Company has entered into an arrangement with a single broker consisting of two irrevocable, non-discretionary contracts, to enable the purchase of ordinary shares on both London market exchanges (the London Stock Exchange and/or on BATS and/or on Chi-X) (pursuant to one ‘London contract’) and Netherlands exchanges (Euronext Amsterdam and/or on CBOE Europe DXE and/or on Turquoise Europe) (pursuant to one ‘Netherlands contract’) for a period up to and including January 24, 2025. The aggregate maximum consideration for the purchase of ordinary shares under the London contract is $2.1 billion and the maximum consideration for the purchase of ordinary shares under the Netherlands contract is $1.4 billion. Purchases under the London contract will be carried out in accordance with the Company’s authority1 to repurchase shares on-market and will be effected within certain contractually agreed parameters. Purchases under the Netherlands contract will be carried out in accordance with the Company’s authority1 to repurchase shares off-market pursuant to the off-market share buyback contract approved by its shareholders and the parameters set out therein.

The maximum number of ordinary shares which may be purchased or committed to be purchased by the Company under the programme (across both contracts) is 525,000,000, which is the maximum number remaining as of the date of this announcement pursuant to the relevant authorities granted by shareholders at the Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting1.

The broker will make its trading decisions in relation to the Company's securities independently of the Company.

The programme will be conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 of the UK Listing Rules, 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 including by relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time 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, including by relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time.

1 The existing shareholder authorities to buy back shares granted at the Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting will expire at the earlier of the close of business on August 20, 2025, and the end of the date of the Company's 2025 Annual General Meeting. The Company expects to seek renewal of shareholder authority to buy back shares at subsequent Annual General Meetings.

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Cautionary Note

The companies in which Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate legal entities. In this announcement “Shell”, “Shell Group” and “Group” are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general. Likewise, the words “we”, “us” and “our” are also used to refer to Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. These terms are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular entity or entities. ‘‘Subsidiaries’’, “Shell subsidiaries” and “Shell companies” as used in this announcement refer to entities over which Shell plc either directly or indirectly has control. The term “joint venture”, “joint operations”, “joint arrangements”, and “associates” may also be used to refer to a commercial arrangement in which Shell has a direct or indirect ownership interest with one or more parties.  The term “Shell interest” is used for convenience to indicate the direct and/or indirect ownership interest held by Shell in an entity or unincorporated joint arrangement, after exclusion of all third-party interest.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements (within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) concerning the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Shell. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning the potential exposure of Shell to market risks and statements expressing management’s expectations, beliefs, estimates, forecasts, projections and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as “aim”; “ambition”; ‘‘anticipate’’; ‘‘believe’’; “commit”; “commitment”; ‘‘could’’; ‘‘estimate’’; ‘‘expect’’; ‘‘goals’’; ‘‘intend’’; ‘‘may’’; “milestones”; ‘‘objectives’’; ‘‘outlook’’; ‘‘plan’’; ‘‘probably’’; ‘‘project’’; ‘‘risks’’; “schedule”; ‘‘seek’’; ‘‘should’’; ‘‘target’’; ‘‘will’’; “would” and similar terms and phrases. There are a number of factors that could affect the future operations of Shell and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this announcement, including (without limitation): (a) price fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas; (b) changes in demand for Shell’s products; (c) currency fluctuations; (d) drilling and production results; (e) reserves estimates; (f) loss of market share and industry competition; (g) environmental and physical risks; (h) risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets, and successful negotiation and completion of such transactions; (i) the risk of doing business in developing countries and countries subject to international sanctions; (j) legislative, judicial, fiscal and regulatory developments including regulatory measures addressing climate change; (k) economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions; (l) political risks, including the risks of expropriation and renegotiation of the terms of contracts with governmental entities, delays or advancements in the approval of projects and delays in the reimbursement for shared costs; (m) risks associated with the impact of pandemics, such as the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, regional conflicts, such as the Russia-Ukraine war, and a significant cybersecurity breach; and (n) changes in trading conditions. No assurance is provided that future dividend payments will match or exceed previous dividend payments. All forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Additional risk factors that may affect future results are contained in Shell plc’s Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023 (available at www.shell.com/investors/news-and-filings/sec-filings.html and www.sec.gov). These risk factors also expressly qualify all forward-looking statements contained in this announcement and should be considered by the reader.  Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this announcement, October 31, 2024. Neither Shell plc nor any of its subsidiaries undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other information. In light of these risks, results could differ materially from those stated, implied or inferred from the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement.

Shell’s Net Carbon Intensity

Also, in this announcement we may refer to Shell’s “Net Carbon Intensity” (NCI), which includes Shell’s carbon emissions from the production of our energy products, our suppliers’ carbon emissions in supplying energy for that production and our customers’ carbon emissions associated with their use of the energy products we sell. Shell’s NCI also includes the emissions associated with the production and use of energy products produced by others which Shell purchases for resale. Shell only controls its own emissions. The use of the terms Shell’s “Net Carbon Intensity” or NCI are for convenience only and not intended to suggest these emissions are those of Shell plc or its subsidiaries.

Shell’s net-zero emissions target

Shell’s operating plan, outlook and budgets are forecasted for a ten-year period and are updated every year. They reflect the current economic environment and what we can reasonably expect to see over the next ten years. Accordingly, they reflect our Scope 1, Scope 2 and NCI targets over the next ten years. However, Shell’s operating plans cannot reflect our 2050 net-zero emissions target, as this target is currently outside our planning period. In the future, as society moves towards net-zero emissions, we expect Shell’s operating plans to reflect this movement. However, if society is not net zero in 2050, as of today, there would be significant risk that Shell may not meet this target.

Forward-Looking non-GAAP measures

This announcement may contain certain forward-looking non-GAAP measures such as cash capital expenditure and divestments. We are unable to provide a reconciliation of these forward-looking non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures because certain information needed to reconcile those non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures is dependent on future events some of which are outside the control of Shell, such as oil and gas prices, interest rates and exchange rates. Moreover, estimating such GAAP measures with the required precision necessary to provide a meaningful reconciliation is extremely difficult and could not be accomplished without unreasonable effort. Non-GAAP measures in respect of future periods which cannot be reconciled to the most comparable GAAP financial measure are calculated in a manner which is consistent with the accounting policies applied in Shell plc’s consolidated financial statements.

The contents of websites referred to in this announcement do not form part of this announcement.

We may have used certain terms, such as resources, in this announcement that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) strictly prohibits us from including in our filings with the SEC. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure in our Form 20-F, File No 1-32575, available on the SEC website www.sec.gov.

LEI number of Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70

Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer’s own shares.


FAQ

What is the size of Shell's (SHEL) new share buyback program announced on October 31, 2024?

Shell announced a $3.5 billion share buyback programme, split between $2.1 billion for London markets and $1.4 billion for Netherlands markets.

When will Shell (SHEL) complete its newly announced buyback program?

Shell plans to complete the buyback program prior to its Q4 2024 results announcement, scheduled for January 30, 2025.

How many shares can Shell (SHEL) purchase under the October 2024 buyback program?

Shell can purchase up to 525,000,000 ordinary shares under the buyback program across both London and Netherlands contracts.

What is the purpose of Shell's (SHEL) October 2024 share buyback program?

The purpose of the program is to reduce Shell's issued share capital, with all repurchased shares being cancelled.

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