Eimskip: Transaction in relation to a share buy-back program – repurchase is completed
In week 4 2020 Eimskip purchased 276,740 of its own shares, at a purchase price of 51,439,048 as further stipulated below:
| Date | Time | No. of shares | Share price (rate) | Purchase price (ISK) |
| 20.1.2020 | 09:44:06 | 69,185 | 187.5 | 12,972,188 |
| 21.1.2020 | 09:50:21 | 69,185 | 186 | 12,868,410 |
| 22.1.2020 | 09:32:09 | 69,185 | 185 | 12,799,225 |
| 23.1.2020 | 09:40:59 | 69,185 | 185 | 12,799,225 |
| Total | 276,740 | 51,439,048 |
The trade is in accordance with Eimskip‘s buy-back program as published on Nasdaq Iceland on 1 December 2019.
The repurchase according to the share buy-back program is completed.
Eimskip held 4,951,804 own shares prior to the notified transactions, or the equivalent of 2.65% of issued shares in the company, and holds 5,228,544 after them, or the equivalent of 2.80% of issued shares in the company.
In week 4 Eimskip purchased a total of 276,740 company‘s own shares. The total purchase price amounted to ISK 51,439,048 which corresponds to 10.29% of the maximum market value amount according to the buy-back program. Eimskip bought a total of 2,190,465 shares in the company amounting to ISK 410,318,739 market value in the buy-back program.
Buy-back under the program would amount to a maximum of 3,125,000 shares and the market value amount will not exceed ISK 500,000,000.
The buyback program was executed in accordance with Chapter VIII. of Act No. 2/1995 on Public Limited Companies and Chapter II of the Annex to Regulation No. 630/2005 on Inside Information and Market Abuse, “Trade in own shares under buy-back programmes and the stabilisation of financial instruments.”
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