Welcome to the week ahead, our summary of the forthcoming key company announcements. Companies are no longer obliged to notify the London Stock Exchange (LSE) of results and trading updates, so this list does not claim to be comprehensive. You can read company announcements on at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 16 April
Finals: APR Energy, Specialist Energy Group
Trading statements: AMEC, Dragon Oil, Gem Diamonds
AGMs: Access Intelligence, Oak Holdings, Pace, Primary Health Properties, Sagentia
EGM: Metal-Tech
Economics: Rightmove house price data
Tuesday 17 April
Finals: Corac, Northbridge Industrial Services, UK Coal, Walker Greenbank
Trading statements: Burberry, International Personal Finance, Man Group, Marks & Spencer, Rio Tinto
AGMs: Perform Group, SDL
Economics: Consumer prices index, Retail prices index
Wednesday 18 April
Interim: Spirit Pub Company
Final: Tesco
Trading statements: BHP Billiton, Bunzl, Computacenter, Daily Mail & General Trust, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Fresnillo, GKN, Hochschild, Hunting, MoneySupermarket.com, Speedy Hire
AGMs: Bunzl, CLS Holdings, Dialight, Dragon Oil, Drax, Hunting, MoneySupermarket.com, Promethean World, Zenergy Power
Economics: Bank of England monetary policy committee minutes, Employment data
Thursday 19 April
Interims: Debenhams, WH Smith
Finals: International Public Partnerships, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings
Trading statements: Anglo American, e2v technologies, Hammerson, Hargreaves Lansdown, International Power, Jupiter Fund Management, Lavendon, Persimmon, SABMiller
AGMs: African Barrick Gold, AMEC, Anglo American, Anglo Pacific, Devro, H&T Group, Hammerson, Ladbrokes, Lavendon Group, LSL Property Services, Management Consulting, Persimmon, Plant Health Care, Rio Tinto, SThree, Stadium Group, Sterling Energy
EGM: Ryannair Holdings
Friday 20 April
Final: Shaft Sinkers
Trading statements: African Barrick Gold, IMI, Record, Rotork, Spectris, William Hill
AGMs: Capital & Counties Properties, Mediwatch, Rotork, Spectris
Economics: Retail sales figures
Shares going ex-dividend on 18 April
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
AGA Ringmaster | 1.1 | 1 Jun |
Aggreko | 13.59 | 20 May |
Albemarle & Bond | 3 | 20 May |
BAE Systems | 11.3 | 1 Jun |
BBA Aviation | 6.25 | 25 May |
Capita | 14.2 | 28 May |
Clarke (T) | 2 | 18 May |
Costain | 6.75 | 25 May |
Hikma Pharmaceutical | 4.6 | 24 May |
International Personal Finance | 4.1 | 1 Jun |
James Halstead | 5 | 18 May |
Johnson Service | 0.67 | 18 May |
Kazakhmys | 12.57 | 15 May |
Legal & General | 4.74 | 23 May |
McBride | 2 | 25 May |
Microgen | 2.2 | 11 May |
Molins | 2.75 | 11 May |
Norish Units | 1.05 | 18 May |
Office2Office | 7.8 | 18 May |
Old Mutual | 3.5 | 7 Jun |
Petrofac | 23.39 | 18 May |
Resolution | 13.42 | 21 May |
Secure Trust Bank | 4.2 | 18 May |
Smith & Nephew | 6.818 | 9 May |
Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 34.2 | 18 May |
Statpro | 1.85 | 23 May |
Taylor Wimpey | 0.38 | 22 May |
Tullow Oil | 8 | 24 May |
Unite | 1.25 | 21 May |
Vitec | 12.5 | 11 May |
The ex-dividend date is the first day on which it is no longer possible to buy the shares and qualify for the dividend. Ex-days are almost always a Wednesday. The record date is usually two days after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.