In week 2 2024 Eimskip purchased 165,000 of its own shares, at a purchase price of ISK 79,959,000 as further stipulated below:

Date Time No. of shares Share price Purchase price 
8.1.202409:4233,000488.5016,120,500
9.1.202409:4533,000488.5016,120,500
10.1.202410:0633,000488.0016,104,000
11.1.202411:3733,000480.0015,840,000
12.1.202410:2133,000478.0015,774,000
Total  165,000  79,959,000 
     

The trade is in accordance with Eimskip‘s buy-back program as published on Nasdaq Iceland on 10 October 2023.

Eimskip held 3,672,320 shares prior to the notified transactions, and holds 3,837,320 after them, or the equivalent of 2.29% of issued shares in the company.

Under current buy-back program Eimskip has purchased a total of 2,112,000 shares in the company, corresponding to 98.23% of the maximum amount of shares to be purchased under this program. Total purchase price is ISK 979,885,500 corresponding to 97.99% of the maximum ISK amount of the buy-back program.

Buy-back under the program will amount to a maximum of 2,150,000 shares and the market value amount will not exceed ISK 1,000,000,000. The buy-back program is in effect for 18 months post the Annual General Meeting held 9 March 2023, unless the conditions for maximum purchase are met before that time.

The execution of the buy-back program is according to Act on Public Limited Companies, No. 2/1995. In addition, the buy-back program must be implemented as provided for in the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council no. 596/2014, on market abuse, as well as the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 on regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buy-back programs and stabilization measures, which supplements that Regulation.

For further information please contact
Guðbjörg Birna Björnsdóttir, Head of Treasury and Investor Relations, tel: +354 844 4752, email:  investors@eimskip.com