Shell (SHEL) purchased and cancelled a total of 1,456,156 shares on 23 December 2025 as part of its ongoing purchase‑back programme announced on 30 October 2025.
Breakdown by venue: 730,152 shares on LSE at a volume‑weighted average price of GBP 27.0175, and 726,004 shares on XAMS at a volume‑weighted average price of EUR 31.0027. Merrill Lynch International will continue to create indepfinishent trading decisions for the programme through 30 January 2026. The programme is conducted under applicable UK and EU MAR rules and relevant Listing Rules.
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- Total cancellation of 1,456,156 shares on 23 December 2025
- Buyback executed across LSE and XAMS with VWAPs GBP 27.0175 and EUR 31.0027
Transaction in Own Shares
23 December, 2025
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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 23 December, 2025 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
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Volume weighted average price paid per share | Venue | Currency |
| 23/12/2025 | 730,152 | 27.0700 | 26.8650 | 27.0175 | LSE | GBP |
| 23/12/2025 | – | – | – | – | Chi-X (CXE) | GBP |
| 23/12/2025 | – | – | – | – | BATS (BXE) | GBP |
| 23/12/2025 | 726,004 | 31.0750 | 30.8900 | 31.0027 | XAMS | EUR |
| 23/12/2025 | – | – | – | – | CBOE DXE | EUR |
| 23/12/2025 | – | – | – | – | TQEX | EUR |
These share purchases form part of the on- and off-market limbs of the Company’s existing share purchase-back programme previously announced on 30 October 2025.
In respect of this programme, Merrill Lynch International will create trading decisions in relation to the securities indepfinishently 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 purchaseback 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 Abapply Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with purchase-back programmes (“EU MAR”) and EU MAR as “onshored” into UK law from the finish of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amfinished by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amfinished, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abapply (Amfinishment) (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 finish of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amfinished by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amfinished, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abapply (Amfinishment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time.
In accordance with EU MAR and UK MAR, a breakdown of the individual trades created by Merrill Lynch International on behalf of the Company as a part of the purchase-back programme is detailed below.
Enquiries
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FAQ
How many shares did Shell (SHEL) repurchase and cancel on 23 December 2025?
Shell repurchased and cancelled 1,456,156 shares on 23 December 2025 (730,152 on LSE and 726,004 on XAMS).
What were the volume‑weighted average prices for Shell (SHEL) purchasebacks on 23 December 2025?
The VWAPs were GBP 27.0175 on LSE and EUR 31.0027 on XAMS for trades on 23 December 2025.
Is the 23 December 2025 share purchaseback part of Shell’s announced programme?
Yes. The purchases form part of the on‑ and off‑market limbs of the purchase‑back programme announced on 30 October 2025.
Who created trading decisions for Shell’s purchaseback and until when for the programme?
Merrill Lynch International will create trading decisions indepfinishently for the programme through 30 January 2026.
Under which rules was Shell’s 23 December 2025 purchaseback conducted?
The programme was conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 of the UK Listing Rules and EU/UK MAR and related delegated regulations.












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