Transaction in Own Shares
Shell plc announced the purchase of 2.4 million shares for cancellation on April 4, 2022, as part of its share buyback program initiated on February 3, 2022. The purchases included transactions on various trading venues, with the highest price paid being £21.3600 and the lowest at £21.0250. The average price per share came to £21.1774. Citigroup Global Markets Limited managed the buyback decisions independently until May 4, 2022. These actions comply with the Market Abuse Regulation and relevant regulations post-Brexit.
- Total of 2.4 million shares purchased indicates active management of share structure.
- Share repurchase can enhance shareholder value by reducing the number of outstanding shares.
- None.
Transaction in Own Shares
4 April 2022
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 4 April 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 (GBP) | Lowest price paid (GBP) | Volume weighted average price paid per Share (GBP) | Venue |
| 04/04/2022 | 1,000,000 | LSE | |||
| 04/04/2022 | 800,000 | BATS (BXE) | |||
| 04/04/2022 | 600,000 | Chi-X (CXE) |
These share purchases form part of the Company's share buy-back arrangement previously announced on 03 February 2022
In respect of this arrangement, Citigroup Global Markets Limited will make trading decisions in relation to the Company’s securities independently of the Company for a period from 3 February 2022 up to and including 4 May 2022
Any such share purchases will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase shares, 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 (on 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 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 Delegation Regulation”) and the EU MAR Delegated Regulation as “onshored” into UK law from the end of the Brexit transition period (on 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 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 full breakdown of the individual trades made by Citigroup Global Markets Limited on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back arrangement 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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