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 at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 20 April
Finals: HSS Hire, North Midland Construction
Trading statement: Evraz
AGMs: Fastjet, Juridica
EGM: Fulham Shore
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Tuesday 21 April
Interims: Associated British Foods, Egdon Resources, Utilitywise
Final: Toumaz
Trading statements: Arm, Immunodiagnostic Systems, Informa, Pentair, Pets At Home, Rio Tinto
AGMs: Brit, Domino's Pizza, Genel Energy, Progressive Digital Media, Telecity
Companies paying dividends: Baronsmead VCT 5 (2p), BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust (1.5p), Brooks Macdonald (10p), Jupiter Fund Management (9.5p), Jupiter Fund Management (special) 11.5p, PPHE Hotel Group (10p), Sky (12.3p)
Wednesday 22 April
Interims: Connect, Fenner, Punch Taverns
Final: Tesco
Trading statements: BHP Billiton, Croda International, Elementis, Reed Elsevier, Telford Homes, Travis Perkins
AGMs: Audioboom, Croda International, Drax, Elementis, Hammerson, Management Consulting, Primary Health Properties, TSB Banking
EGMs: Playtech, Rank
Economics: Bank of England MPC minutes
Companies paying dividends: Close Brothers (18p), JPM Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (1p), Plexus (0.51p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.33p), Tritax Big Box REIT (1p)
Thursday 23 April
Final: Camellia
Trading statements: Acacia Mining, Anglo American, Cobham, Computacenter, Meggitt, Taylor Wimpey, William Hill, WPP
AGMs: Acacia Mining, Anglo American, Barclays, Bodycote, Cobham, Delphi Automotive, Enables IT, Essentra, Meggitt, Pace, Personal, Phoenix, Promethean World, Reed Elsevier, SThree, Taylor Wimpey, TomCo Energy
Economics: Public sector borrowing, Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Cambian (1.8p), Lavendon (3.2p), Law Debenture Corp (11p), Produce Investments (2.39p), Shore Capital (5p)
Friday 24 April
Trading statements: AstraZeneca, Pearson, Phoenix, Reckitt Benckiser, Rotork, Spectris
AGMs: AstraZeneca, HSBC, Molins, Pearson, Rotork, SpaceandPeople, Spectris
Companies paying dividends: 32Red (1.4p), Amino Technologies (3.85p), Bioventix (11p), Catlin (special) (11.7p), Charlemagne Capital (0.3393p), Charles Taylor (7.5p), Craneware (6.3p), Finsbury Food (0.83p), Friends Life (24.1p), Hammerson (11.6p), Henderson Eurotrust (5.5p), Idox (0.425p), Japan Residential Investment (1.8p), JPM Income & Capital Trust (1.7p), Real Estate Investors (0.75p), Renewable Energy Generation (0.55p), RTC (1p), Smiths (13p), Stadium (1.4p), Telecity (9p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.575p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 23 April
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| AFH Financial ord 10p | 1.5 | 22 May |
| Aggreko ord 20p | 17.74 | 26 May |
| Antofagasta ord 5p | 6.62 | 22 May |
| Arm ord 0.05p | 4.5 | 15 May |
| Barratt Developments ord 10p | 4.8 | 20 May |
| BBA Aviation ord 29 16/21p | 7.56 | 15 May |
| BG ord 10p | 9.52 | 22 May |
| Brady ord 1p | 1.85 | 19 May |
| Bwin.Party Digital ord 0.015p | 1.89 | 27 May |
| Centamin | 1.34 | 29 May |
| China Chaintek United | 4 | 20 May |
| Churchill China ord 10p | 11 | 27 May |
| Drax ord 11 16/29p | 7.2 | 15 May |
| Edge Performance VCT | 3.5 | 8 May |
| Elementis ord 5p (special) | 4.5113 | 22 May |
| Elementis ord 5p | 3.72 | 22 May |
| Fevertree Drinks | 0.3 | 22 May |
| Glencore | 7.79 | 21 May |
| Hansteen ord 10p (special) | 3 | 21 May |
| Hansteen ord 10p | 3 | 21 May |
| Impax Environmental Markets ord 10p | 1.4 | 27 May |
| International Public Partnerships | 3.15 | 9 Jun |
| Kingspan ord € | 7.15 | 15 May |
| Legal & General ord 2.5p | 8.35 | 4 Jun |
| Man | 3.95 | 15 May |
| Martinco | 2.7 | 11 May |
| McBride ord 10p | 1.7 | 29 May |
| Molins ord 25p | 3 | 13 May |
| Mondi ord €0.2 | 21.47 | 21 May |
| Nahl | 10.7 | 29 May |
| Novae ord 10p (special) | 20 | 15 May |
| Novae ord 10p | 18.2 | 15 May |
| Old Mutual ord 10p | 6.25 | 29 May |
| Pendragon ord 5p | 0.6 | 22 May |
| Portmeirion ord 5p | 21 | 19 May |
| Rathbone Brothers ord 5p | 33 | 19 May |
| Rolls-Royce ord 20p | 14.1 | 1 Jul |
| RPS ord 3p | 4.42 | 22 May |
| Smart Metering Systems | 1.88 | 1 Jun |
| Stilo International ord 10p | 0.03 | 19 May |
| Tullett Prebon ord 325p | 11.25 | 14 May |
| Tyman | 6 | 20 May |
| UBM | 16 | 27 May |
| Unite ord 25p | 9 | 19 May |
| Xchanging ord 5p | 2.75 | 22 May |
| Zotefoams ord 5p | 3.7 | 27 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 Thursday. The record date is usually one day after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
