Disclosure of 5 percent holding of own shares
Zurich, Switzerland, November 6, 2020
On November 4, 2020, ABB held 109,359,211 of its own shares, which corresponds to 5.04 percent of total share capital and voting rights in the company. This includes 89,326,859 shares purchased for capital reduction purposes as part of its share buyback program announced on July 22, 2020. ABB’s total number of issued shares, including shares held in treasury, amounts to 2,168,148,264.
Additional information is available on ABB’s investor relations website site at https://global.abb/group/en/investors/investor-and-shareholder-resources/share-buyback-program.
This is information that ABB is required to disclose in accordance with the Financial Instruments Trading Act (Sweden). The information was submitted for publication at 11.00 a.m. on November 6, 2020 (CET).
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