QINETIQ GROUP PLC
6 February 2024
QINETIQ GROUP
PLC
Results of General Meeting held on 6 February
2024
Poll Results of General Meeting
QinetiQ Group plc (QinetiQ) announces that the resolution
proposed as an ordinary resolution at its General Meeting
(GM) held on 6 February
2024 was duly passed without amendment by the requisite majority of
shareholders and the results of the poll are as follows:
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VOTES FOR
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%
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VOTES AGAINST
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%
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TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST
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% OF SHARE CAPITAL WITH VOTING
RIGHTS
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VOTES WITHHELD
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1
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To authorise the Company to make market
purchases of its ordinary shares pursuant to section 701 of the
Companies Act 2006
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485,836,928
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99.51
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2,371,173
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0.49
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488,208,101
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84.35
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688,113
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Notes:
1. The percentages above
are rounded to two decimal places.
2. Votes "for" include
discretionary votes.
3. A vote withheld is not
a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the
proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.
4. The number of ordinary
shares in issue at 6.30pm on 2 February 2024 was 578,757,121 of
which none are held in treasury. Therefore the number of ordinary
shares with voting rights at 6.30pm on 2 February 2024 was
578,757,121.
Results of the poll can also be viewed on
QinetiQ's website: https://www.qinetiq.com/en/investors/shareholder-services/agm
Following the resolution being duly passed, the
share buyback programme as previously announced on 16 January 2024
(the Programme) will
commence on 7 February 2024.
The first tranche of up to £50 million will be
carried out through an irrevocable non-discretionary agreement with
Barclays Capital Securities Limited (Barclays) on the basis set out in the
announcement of the Programme on 16 January 2024. Barclays may
undertake transactions in QinetiQ shares (which may include sales
and hedging activities, in addition to purchases which may take
place on any available trading venue or an over the counter basis)
during the Programme in order to manage their market exposure under
the Programme. Disclosure of such transactions will not be made by
Barclays as a result of or part of the Programme, but Barclays will
continue to make any disclosures they are otherwise legally
required to make.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy
of the resolution will be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
For further information please
contact:
John Haworth, Group Director Investor
Relations:
+44 (0) 7920 545841
Lindsay Walls, Group Director
Communications:
+44 (0) 7793
427582
James Field, Company
Secretary:
+44 (0) 7841 662957
QinetiQ Group plc LEI:
213800S8OBDOZMCMUW34