Last checked at 4 Sep 2019 18:05
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
4 September 2019
Transaction in own shares
HSBC Holdings plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased for cancellation the following number of its ordinary shares of US$0.50 each on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc ("Morgan Stanley") as part of its buy-back announced on 6 August 2019.
Date of purchase: | 4 September 2019 |
Number of ordinary shares of US$0.50 each purchased: | 5,929,226 |
Highest price paid per share: | £6.0600 |
Lowest price paid per share: | £6.0260 |
Volume weighted average price paid per share: | £6.0433 |
Following the cancellation of the repurchased shares, the Company will have 20,495,652,095 ordinary shares in issue, including 325,273,407 ordinary shares which are held in treasury. Therefore the total voting rights in the Company will be 20,170,378,688. This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, a full breakdown of the individual trades is attached to this announcement.
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/2667L_1-2019-9-4.pdf
This announcement will also be available on HSBC's website at www.hsbc.com/sea
Enquiries to:
Ash Syed
Shareholder Services
+44 (0) 20 3268 3507