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
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aberdeen Smaller Co | 1.65 | 30 Oct |
Alumasc ord 12.5p | 3.5 | 2 Nov |
Aviva ord 25p | 6.75 | 17 Nov |
Begbies Traynor ord 5p | 1.6 | 6 Nov |
Braime (TF & JH) 'A' non voting | 2.9 | 18 Oct |
Brammer ord 20p | 3.6 | 5 Nov |
Cenkos Securities ord 1p | 7 | 5 Nov |
Central Asia Metals | 4.5 | 30 Oct |
City of London Investment Group | 16 | 30 Oct |
Cobham ord 2.5p | 3.05 | 6 Nov |
CPL Resources | 3.65 | 2 Nov |
DX | 4 | 16 Nov |
F&C Commercial Property Trust | 0.5 | 30 Sep |
F&C Private Equity Trust ord | 5.58 | 6 Nov |
Hays ord 1p | 1.89 | 13 Nov |
Hunting ord 25p | 2.56 | 28 Oct |
Johnson Service ord 10p | 0.65 | 6 Nov |
Kingfisher ord 15 5/7p | 3.18 | 13 Nov |
London Stock Exchange ord 5p | 10.8 | 6 Nov |
Macfarlane ord 25p | 0.53 | 15 Oct |
Merchants Trust ord 25p | 6 | 12 Nov |
Murray International Trust ord 25p | 10.5 | 17 Nov |
Next ord 10p | 60 | 2 Nov |
Pembroke VCT | 0.6 | 30 Oct |
Photo-Me International ord 0.5p | 2.54 | 12 Nov |
Redde | 4.25 | 5 Nov |
Rightmove ord 1p | 16 | 6 Nov |
SIG ord 10p | 1.69 | 6 Nov |
Smith & Nephew ord 20¢ | 7.55 | 27 Oct |
Spirax-Sarco Engineering ord 25p | 20.8 | 6 Nov |
Statpro ord 1p | 0.85 | 4 Nov |
Synthomer | 3.2 | 5 Nov |
Travis Perkins ord 10p | 14.75 | 10 Nov |
Unite ord 25p | 5.5 | 6 Nov |
Weir ord 2.5p | 15 | 6 Nov |
WPP | 15.91 | 9 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.