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Week Ahead: 26-30 September

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
September 22, 2016

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 26 September

Interims: CitiFibre Infrastructure Holdings, Ergomed, Zoltav Resources

Finals: Allergy Therapeutics, Gemfields, Goldplat, MJ Gleeson

AGMs: Acorn Minerals, BATM Advanced Communications, Octagonal, Pinewood Group

EGM: Vela Technologies

Economics: BBA house purchase loans, CBI total distribution reported sales

Companies paying dividends: British Smaller Companies VCT 2 (2p), Mincon Group (0.83p)

 

Tuesday 27 September

Interims: A.G. Barr, boohoo.com, Card Factory, Circassia Pharmaceuticals, MaxCyte, NetScientific, Premier Technical Services, S&U, Toumaz, XLMedia

Finals: Close Brothers, Netcall, Wolseley

Trading statements: IHS Markit, Thomas Cook, United Utilities

AGMs: AorTech International, Arcontech, ASA Resource Group, United Carpets, Versarien

Economics: CBI retailing reported sales

Companies paying dividends: Foxtons (1.67p), Hostelworld Group (4.8p)

 

Wednesday 28 September

Interims: AA, Mortgage Advice Bureau, Moss Bros, Petropavlovsk, REA Holdings, RedT Energy, Venn Life Sciences

Finals: Clinigen, MySale Group, Smiths Group

Trading statements: J Sainsbury, TUI Travel

AGMs: Anglesey Mining, Coral Products, Fulcrum Utility Services, PZ Cussons, Sepura, Zoo Digital

EGM: SABMiller

Economics: Nationwide house prices

Companies paying dividends: British American Tobacco (51.3p), Gateley Holdings (3.764p), Hargreaves Lansdown (16.3p), Hargreaves Lansdown (special) (9.9p), HSBC (7.6p), Lloyds Banking Group (0.85p), UIL (1.875p), WYG (1p)

 

Thursday 29 September

Interims: Active Energy, Air Partner, Harvey Nash, Northbridge Industrial Services

Final: Vernalis

Trading statements: Atkins (WS), CMC Markets, Daily Mail and General Trust, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Imperial Brands, Merlin Entertainments, RPC

AGMs: Aurum Mining, Castleton Technology, Filtronic, Galileo Resources, Ilika, New World Oil & Gas, NWF Group

EGMs: Auto Trader, Lookers, Oxford BioMedica

Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply

Companies paying dividends: Acorn Income Fund (3.5p), CMC Markets (5.36p), Prudential (12.93p), Reckitt Benckiser (58.2p)

 

Friday 30 September

Interims: LoopUp Group, Metal Tiger, Speedy Hire

Final: Range Resources

Trading statement: Trinity Mirror

AGMs: 1pm, Accrol Group, Associated British Engineering, City of London Group, Entertainment One, Provexis, World Trade Systems

Economics: GfK consumer confidence, GDP (Q2 final), Current account balance, Index of services, Total business investment

Companies paying dividends: Acacia Mining (1.53p), Acencia Debt Strategies (2.1p), AEW UK Reit (2p), Aggreko (9.38p), Alliance Trust (2.825p), Antofagasta (3.1p), Arbuthnot Banking (13p), Atrium European Real Esate (5.7p), Auto Trader (1p), Capital & Counties Properties (0.5p), Concurrent Technologies (0.8p), Custodian Reit (1.5875p), Downing Four VCT (2p), Ediston Investment Property Company (0.4583p), Elementis (2.0537p), F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust (2.35p), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), F&C UK Real Estate Investments (1.25p), First Property Group (1.115p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.54p), Ground Rents Income (1.0232p), Henderson Diversified Income (1.25p), Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust (11p), HICL Infrastructure (1.91p), Hikma Pharmaceuticals (8.3p), Honeycomb Investment Trust (19.66p), Imperial Brands (23.5p), Jupiter Green Investment Trust (0.65p), Juridica (32p), Keller (9.25p), MedicX Fund (1.4875p), Meggitt (4.8p), Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (2.08p), NCC (3.15p), NextEnergy Solar Fund (1.5775p), Octopus Second AIM VCT (2p), OM Asset Management (6.1p), Paddy Power Betfair (40p), Perpetual Income & Growth Investment Trust (3p), PHSC (1.5p), Premier Energy & Water (1.9p), Real Estate Credit Investments (2.7p), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (10p), Segro (5.2p), St James's Place Capital (12.33p), Temple Bar Investment Trust (8.09p), The Gym Group (0.25p), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (1.5625p), Xaar (3.3p)

 

Shares going ex-dividend on 29 September

CompanyDividend(p)Payment
Advanced Medical Solutions Grp Ord 10p0.328 Oct
Avation3.2513 Oct
Capital & Regional Properties Ord 10p1.6227 Oct
D S Smith  Ord 10p8.81 Nov
Diverse Income Trust0.7530 Nov
Essentra6.331 Oct
Fairpoint Group2.4521 Oct
Flowtech FluidPower Ord 50p1.8425 Oct
Forterra219 Oct
Fulcrum Utility Servs0.628 Oct
Funding Circle SME Income Fund1.625p31 Oct
Huntsworth Ord 10p0.54 Nov
IG Group Holdings  Ord 0.005p22.9528 Oct
Intertek Group Ord 1p19.414 Oct
John Laing Group1.8528 Oct
Kainos Group4.221 Oct
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets Ord 10p1.587 Nov
Murray Income Trust Ord 25p11.253 Nov
Norish Units €0.251.106821 Oct
Pembroke VCT231 oct
Puma VCT VII253 Oct
SafeCharge International Group5.2614 Oct
Safestyle UK3.7531 Oct
Servelec Group Ord 18p1.6528 Oct
Smurfit Kappa Group Ord €0.00118.4828 Oct
Somero Enterprises1.919 Oct
STM Group Ord 0.1p0.53 Nov
United Carpets Group Ord 5p0.26514 Oct
Value & Income Trust Ord 10p2.628 Oct
Wynnstay Group Ord 25p431 Oct

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.