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 24 April
Interim: Lok'nStore
Final: Nasstar
Trading statements: Anglo American, Petra Diamonds
AGMs: Anglo African Agriculture, Anglo American, Biome Technologies, ECR Minerals, LXB Retail Properties, Microgen, Totally
EGM: Corero Network Security
Economics: CBI trends - selling prices, total orders, business optimism
Companies paying dividends: Coca-Cola European Partners (17.8p), Headlam (special) (8p)
Tuesday 25 April
Interims: AB Dynamics, Connect
Finals: Circassia Pharmaceuticals, Havelock Europa, Minds + Machines, OptiBiotix Health, Phoenix Spree Deutschland, RedstoneConnect, Whitbread
Trading statements: Aggreko, BHP Billiton, Carpetright, Elementis, Pentair, St James's Place, Trifast, Virgin Money
AGMs: AFC Energy, Aggreko, Breedon, Electric Word, Elementis, entu, Equiniti, GlobalData, Hammerson, Horizonte Minerals, Metro Bank, Modern Water, Proteme Sciences, Romgaz, SpaceandPeople, Sterling Energy, STV
EGM: Redefine International
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: Domino's Pizza (4.5p), Shire (20.64p)
Wednesday 26 April
Interims: Proactis, Redefine International
Finals: boohoo.com, GAN, Walker Greenbank, U&I
Trading statements: Antofagasta, Croda International, Fresnillo, GAN, GlaxoSmithKline, Hochschild Mining, Jupiter Fund Management, London Stock Exchange, Metro Bank, Tullow Oil
AGMs: Admiral, Bioquell, British American Tobacco, CLS, Croda International, Devro, Fidessa, Glanbia, Greencoat UK Wind, Henderson, Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate, London Stock Exchange, Nichols, Personal Group, Petards, Primary Health Properties, Savannah Resources, Servelec, Sinclair Pharma, Telit Communications, Tullow Oil, Venn Life Sciences
EGM: Henderson
Companies paying dividends: Close Brothers (20p), Shore Capital (5p)
Thursday 27 April
Finals: Air Partner, Allied Minds, Aseana Properties, Avocet Mining, Camellia, Gaming Realms, Harvey Nash, Morses Club, N Brown, Styles & Wood
Trading statements: Aggreko, AstraZeneca, Berendsen, Cobham, ENSCO, Howden Joinery, KAZ Minerals, Lloyds Banking, Meggitt, Persimmon, Schroders, Taylor Wimpey, Travis Perkins, Weir, WPP
AGMs: Aggreko, AstraZeneca, Berendsen, Cobham, Countrywide, CRH, Delphi Automotive, FDM, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Just Eat, KAZ Minerals, LSL Property Services, McColl's Retail, Meggitt, Minoan, Miton, Patagonia Gold, Pendragon, Persimmon, Satellite Solutions Worldwide, Schroders, SDL, Synectics, Synthomer, Taylor Wimpey, Unilever, Weir
EGM: Consort Medical
Economics: CBI retailing reported sales, total distribution reported sales
Company paying dividend: Hammerson (13.9p)
Friday 28 April
Final: Jersey Oil & Gas
Trading statements: Barclays, Computacenter, Hastings, Laird, Rotork, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ultra Electronics
AGMs: EMIS, HSBC, Laird, M Winkworth, Noble, Rotork, Ultra Electronics
Economics: GfK consumer confidence, BBA house purchase loans, GDP (Q1), Index of services
Companies paying dividends: Abbey (0.7p), Aberdeen Diversified Income (1.635p), Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.7p), Amino Technologies (4.659p), CLS (40p), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), Franchise Brands (0.17p), Funding Circle SME Income Fund (1.625p), Glanbia (6.78p), Henderson Eurotrust (7p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.325p), Kings Arms Yard VCT (0.5p), Lowland Investments (12p), Marwyn Value Investors (New Co) (2.064p), Maven Income & Growth VCT3 (3.75p), Maven Income & Growth VCT5 (1.7p), Middlefield Canadian Income (1.25p), Octopus Second AIM VCT (2p), Octopus Titan VCT (3p), Old Mutual (3.05p), Real Estate Investors (0.75p), RIT Capital Partners (16p), Schroder Income Growth Fund (2p), Schroder Oriental Income (1.7p), Shires Income (3p), Smiths (13.55p), Softcat (2.9p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.625p), Value & Income Trust (2.6p), Wolseley (36.67p), Wynnstay (8p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 27 April
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Aberdeen Asian Indome Fund | 2.25 | 26 May |
| Aberdeen Latin American Inc Fd | 0.875 | 12 May |
| Antofagasta ord 5p | 12.25 | 26 May |
| Boot (Henry) & Sons ord 10p | 4.5 | 30 May |
| Capital & Regional Properties ord 10p | 1.77 | 16 May |
| Capital Drilling | 1 | 19 May |
| Cenkos Securities ord 1p | 5 | 26 May |
| Charles Taylor | 7.35 | 26 May |
| Chemring ord 5p | 1.3 | 18 May |
| Churchill China ord 10p | 14.8 | 24 May |
| City of London Inv Tst ord 25p | 4.3 | 31 May |
| Communisis ord 25p | 1.61 | 26 May |
| Curtis Banks | 3 | 12 May |
| Dunedin Enterprise Inv Tst ord 25p | 17.5 | 18 May |
| Elementis ord 5p (special) | 6.62 | 26 May |
| Elementis ord 5p | 4.53 | 26 May |
| Eurocell ord 0.001p | 5.7 | 24 May |
| Foxtons | 0.33 | 25 May |
| Fresnillo | 17.2 | 26 May |
| G4S ord 25p | 5.82 | 9 Jun |
| Games Workshop ord 5p | 25 | 2 Jun |
| Greggs ord 20p | 21.5 | 26 May |
| Hansa Trust ord 5p | 8 | 30 May |
| Hansa Trust 'A' Non V 5p | 8 | 30 May |
| Harwood Wealth Management | 2 | 12 May |
| Henderson International Income Trust | 1.2 | 31 May |
| Hostelworld | 8.8 | 6 Jun |
| Hostelworld (special) | 8.9 | 6 Jun |
| Hunters Property | 1.3 | 31 May |
| Impax Environmental Markets | 1.95 | 23 May |
| Informa ord 10p | 13.04 | 2 Jun |
| ITV ord 10p (special) | 5 | 25 May |
| ITV ord 10p | 4.8 | 25 May |
| IWG | 3.55 | 26 May |
| Kerry | 33.3 | 19 May |
| Legal & General ord 2.5p | 10.35 | 8 Jun |
| Maven Inc & Gwth VCT 4 | 3.05 | 26 May |
| McCarthy & Stone | 1.8 | 9 Jun |
| Morgan Sindall | 22 | 22 May |
| Nahl | 12.7 | 31 May |
| National Express ord 5p | 8.41 | 19 May |
| Polypipe | 7 | 6 Jun |
| Portmeirion ord 5p | 25.25 | 30 May |
| Porvair ord 2p (new Co ) | 2.4 | 2 Jun |
| Relx | 25.7 | 25 May |
| Rolls-Royce ord 20p | 7.1 | 3 Jul |
| Senior ord 10p | 4.62 | 26 May |
| Smart Metering Systems | 2.73 | 1 Jun |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering ord 25p | 53.5 | 26 May |
| Statpro ord 1p | 2.05 | 26 May |
| UBM | 16.6 | 25 May |
| Weir ord 2.5p | 29 | 5 Jun |
| Wetherspoon (JD) ord 2p | 4 | 25 May |
| William Hill ord 10p | 8.4 | 8 Jun |
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.
