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 7 December
Interims: Evgen Pharma, ReNeuron, Plastics Capital
AGMs: Avanti Capital, BWA, Eclectic Bar, Parallel Media
EGMs: Ixico, Restore
Economics: CBI trends, selling prices, total orders
Companies paying dividends: DCC (33.04p), International Consolidated Airlines (7.17p), Just Retirement (2.2p), Petra Diamonds (1.923p)
Tuesday 8 December
Interims: Daily Internet, Hornby, Vianet
Finals: Caretech, OMG, RWS, Servoca, Treatt, Victrex, Zytronic
AGMs: Billing Services, C4X Discovery, Ten Alps
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (November)
Companies paying dividends: ISG (5p), Rotala (0.725p)
Wednesday 9 December
Interims: Ashtead, Scholium, Stagecoach
Finals: Alternative Networks, easyHotel, Focusrite, Medicx Fund, On the Beach, Redhall
Trading statement: Carillion
AGMs: K3 Business Technology, Shore Capital, YouGov
Economics: BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: Unilever (22.59p)
Thursday 10 December
Interims: Darty, Micro Focus International, Mulberry, Photo-Me International, Sports Direct International
Finals: Lakehouse, Titon
Trading statements: Centrica, Go-Ahead, John Wood, LHR Airports, Marshalls, Ocado, PZ Cussons, Whitbread
AGMs: AB Dynamics, Ganapati, Greatland Gold, Nanoco, Plexus, Starvest
Economics: RICS house prices, Trade figures, Bank of England interest rate announcement, asset purchase target
Companies paying dividends: Fidelity Asian Values (2p), Finsbury Food (1.67p), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investments (3.4p), Jarvis Securities (4.25p), Jupiter Primadona Growth Trust (1.6p)
Friday 11 December
Interim: Polar Capital
Trading statements: Bellway, SThree
AGMs: Bellway, MJ Gleeson, Paragon Entertainment, River & Mercantile, Waterman
EGM: Bacit
Economics: Construction output, Bank of England/GfK inflation outlook
Companies paying dividends: Amati VCT (2p), Avingtrans (2p), Barclays (1p), Carnival (19.5p), CVS (3p), Elderstreet VCT (2.5p), First Derivatives (5p), Grafenia (0.25p), Hargreave Hale VCT (2p), JPMorgan Overseas Investment Trust (16p), Jupiter European Opportunities Trust (3.8p), London Finance & Investment Group (0.5p), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained Trust (2.5p), Matchtech (16.32p), Next Fifteen Communications (1.2p), Pennant International (1p), Ranger Direct Lending Fund (8.36p), Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (1.47p), SThree (4.7p), TalkTalk (5.29p), Volta Finance (21.9p), VPC Speciality Lending Investments (1.89p), Walker Crips (0.58p), Young & Co's Brewery 'A' ord (8.38p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 10 December
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
3i ord 7319/22p | 2.7 | 6 Jan |
3i ord 73 19/22p (special) | 3.3 | 6 Jan |
Associated British Foods ord 5p | 25 | 8 Jan |
Babcock International ord 60p | 6.05 | 14 Jan |
Big Yellow ord 10p | 12.1 | 7 Jan |
Brown (N) ord 10p | 5.67 | 8 Jan |
Cropper (James) ord 25p | 2.2 | 8 Jan |
DFS Furniture | 9.3 | 30 Dec |
F&C UK Real Estate Investments | 1.25 | 31 Dec |
Homeserve ord 12.5p | 3.8 | 8 Jan |
Investec ord 0.2p | 9.5 | 23 Dec |
JPM Euro. Inv Trust Income | 1.1 | 15 Jan |
K3 Business Tech ord 25p | 1.5 | 15 Jan |
Netcall ord 5p | 1 | 12 Jan |
Netcall ord 5p (special) | 1.2 | 12 Jan |
Next ord 10p | 53 | 4 Jan |
Pan African Resources ord 1p | 0.5398 | 24 Dec |
Pets at Home | 2 | 8 Jan |
Scottish Oriental Smaller Co Trust ord 25p | 11.5 | 22 Jan |
Temple Bar Inv Tst ord 25p | 7.93 | 30 Dec |
Ventus VCT | 3.5 | 13 Jan |
Ventus VCT 'D' shares | 2 | 13 Jan |
Ventus VCT 2 | 2.5 | 13 Jan |
Waterman ord 10p | 1.2 | 8 Jan |
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.