Vodafone Group Plc
Vodafone announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 20 20/21 US cents on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) from Goldman Sachs International ('Goldman Sachs') as part of its buy-back programme announced on 9 March 2022 (the 'Programme'). The sole purpose of this Programme is to reduce the issued share capital of Vodafone to partially offset the increase in the issued share capital as a result of the maturing of the second tranche of a two-tranche mandatory convertible bond ('MCB') issued by Vodafone in March 2019.
| Date of purchase: | 1 November 2022 |
|---|---|
| Number of ordinary shares of 20 20/21 US cents each purchased: | 6,074,518 |
| Highest price paid per share (pence): | 102.94 |
| Lowest price paid per share (pence): | 101.86 |
| Volume weighted average price paid per share (pence): | 102.38 |
Vodafone intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Vodafone holds 1,272,833,026 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 27,545,330,252 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
As part of the Programme, Goldman Sachs purchases Vodafone (213800TB53ELEUKM7Q61) ordinary shares and sells such shares to Vodafone. In connection with the above purchases, on 1 November 2022 Goldman Sachs (as principal) elected to purchase 6,074,518 Vodafone ordinary shares to sell to Vodafone. A schedule of individual trades carried out by Goldman Sachs on 1 November 2022 is set out below.
Schedule of purchases - aggregate information
| Trading venue | Volume weighted average price (pence per share) | Aggregated volume |
|---|---|---|
| XLON | 102.38 | 6,074,518 |