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Week Ahead: 5-9 October

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
September 25, 2015

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 5 October

Finals: Bioventix, Waterman

Trading statements: Ferrexpo, International Consolidated Airlines

Economics: Official reserves changes, Markit/CIPS UK services PMI, composite PMI, Halifax house prices

Companies paying dividends: Al Noor Hospital (4.1p), Arm (3.15p), Pinewood (2.8p), Small Companies Dividend Trust (1.7p)

 

Tuesday 6 October

Interim: Ted Baker

Finals: Firestone Diamonds, St Ives

Trading statements: easyJet, Greggs, Robert Walters

EGM: Filtronic

Economics: New car registrations

Companies paying dividends: Holders Technology (0.25p), Tex (2p)

 

Wednesday 7 October

Interim: Tesco

Final: Ceres Power

AGMs: Goodwin, Hargreaves Services

Economics: BRC shop price index, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (September)

Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (9.62p), BlackRock North American (1.1p), Maintel (12.8p), Rathbone Brothers (21p)

 

Thursday 8 October

Final: DFS Furniture

Trading statements: Carillion, Centamin, Hays, Mondi, Victrex

Economics: RICS house prices, Bank of England rate announcement, asset purchase target

Companies paying dividends: Antofagasta (2p), Arrow Global (1.7p), Communisis (0.73p), Crest Nicholson (6.4p), Diageo (34.9p), Molins (2.5p), PPHE Hotel (10p), Restaurant Group (6.8p), XP Power (14p), Zotefoams (1.8p)

 

Friday 9 October

Trading statement: Vedanta Resources

Economics: Construction output, Trade figures

Companies paying dividends: Adept Telecom (2.5p), Admiral (51p), Ashley (Laura) (1p), Berendsen (10p), Betfair (25p), BlackRock Income Strategies Trust (1.67p), Bwin.Party Digital (1.92p), Cape (4.5p), Carr's (0.925p), Centamin (0.621p), Centaur Media (1.5p), Clarke (T) (0.5p), Colefax (2.3p), Conviviality Retail (6.3p), Countrywide (5p), Drax (5.1p), Ebiquity (0.4p), Eurocell (2.7p), Goodwin (42.348p), Grafton Units (4.5p), H&T (3.5p), Hargreaves Lansdown (14.3p), Hargreaves Lansdown (special) (11.4p), Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust (10p), JPM American Investment Trust (1.5p), JPM European Investment Trust (4.85p), Land Securities (8.15p), Lavendon (1.7p), Newmark Security (0.1p), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (1.3p), Ruffer Investment (1.7p), Sepura (1.71p), STV (3p), UBM (5.3p), Virgin Money (1.4p), Xaar (3.15p)

 

Shares going ex-dividend on 8 October

CompanyDividend (p)Payment
Aberdeen Smaller Co1.6530 Oct
Alumasc ord 12.5p3.52 Nov
Aviva ord 25p6.7517 Nov
Begbies Traynor  ord 5p1.66 Nov
Braime (TF & JH) 'A' non voting2.918 Oct
Brammer ord 20p3.65 Nov
Cenkos Securities ord 1p75 Nov
Central Asia Metals4.530 Oct
City of London Investment Group1630 Oct
Cobham ord 2.5p3.056 Nov
CPL Resources3.652 Nov
DX 416 Nov
F&C Commercial Property Trust0.530 Sep
F&C Private Equity Trust ord5.586 Nov
Hays ord 1p1.8913 Nov
Hunting ord 25p2.5628 Oct
Johnson Service ord 10p0.656 Nov
Kingfisher ord 15 5/7p3.1813 Nov
London Stock Exchange ord 5p10.86 Nov
Macfarlane ord 25p0.5315 Oct
Merchants Trust ord 25p612 Nov
Murray International Trust ord 25p 10.517 Nov
Next ord 10p602 Nov
Pembroke VCT0.630 Oct
Photo-Me International ord 0.5p2.5412 Nov
Redde4.255 Nov
Rightmove ord 1p166 Nov
SIG ord 10p1.696 Nov
Smith & Nephew ord 20¢7.5527 Oct
Spirax-Sarco Engineering ord 25p20.86 Nov
Statpro ord 1p0.854 Nov
Synthomer3.25 Nov
Travis Perkins ord 10p14.7510 Nov
Unite ord 25p5.56 Nov
Weir ord 2.5p156 Nov
WPP15.919 Nov

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.