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 8 February
Final: Randgold Resources
EGM: Chemring
Companies paying dividends: Artemis Aim VCT (2p), Artemis Aim VCT (special) (10p), BT (4.4p), Elegant Hotels (1.75p), ITE (4.9p), Lakehouse (1.9p), Pinewood Group (0.8p)
Tuesday 9 February
Interim: Redrow
Trading statement: Icap
AGMs: RWS Holdings, TUI AG
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales, Trade figures
Companies paying dividends: Mitchells & Butlers (5p)
Wednesday 10 February
Interims: Animalcare, Dunelm
Finals: ARM Holdings, Concentric, Smurfit Kappa, Tullow Oil
Trading statements: Atkins (WS), Bellway, Electrocomponents, Greene King, Markit
AGMs: Daily Mail & General Trust, Grainger, Urban & Civic, Victrex
EGM: Next, Pinnacle Technology
Economics: Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (January)
Companies paying dividends: Halma (4.98p), NewRiver Retail (4.75p)
Thursday 11 February
Interim: Ashmore
Finals: Awilco Drilling, Henderson Group, Informa, Rio Tinto, Shire
Trading statements: Cable & Wireless Communications, Dairy Crest, Enterprise Inns, Halma, Imperial Tobacco, LHR Airports, Pennon Group, Tate & Lyle, Thomas Cook
AGMs: easyJet, Enterprise Inns, Paragon Group of Companies
Economics: RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: Conygar (1.75p), easyHotel (0.33p), Euromoney Institutional Investor (16.4p)
Friday 12 February
Interim: Monitise
Finals: Holders Technology, Rolls Royce Holdings
Trading statements: Acal, S&U
Economics: Construction output
Companies paying dividends: Alcentra European Floating Rate Income Fund (1.24p), British Land (7.09p), Connect Group (6.3p), Consort Medical (6.75p), Daily Mail & General Trust 'A' non-voting (14.9p), Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust (3.85p), Grainger (2.11p), Octopus VCT3 (5p), Octopus VCT4 (5p), Patisserie Holdings (1.67p), QinetiQ (1.9p), Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund (6.7p), Shaftesbury (6.925p), Tracsis (0.6p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 11 February
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Aberforth Geared Income Trust | 2.7 | 26 Feb |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst Ord 25p | 2.75 | 4 Mar |
| Aberforth Smaller Companies Tst Ord 25p | 17.5 | 4 Mar |
| Albion Enterprise VCT | 2.5 | 29 Feb |
| Al Noor Hospitals (special) | 328 | 2 Mar |
| Blackrock Income & Growth | 3.6 | 4 Mar |
| Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst | 4 | 4 Mar |
| Impax Asset Management | 1.2 | 11 Mar |
| Impax Asset Management (special) | 0.5 | 11 Mar |
| Invesco Income Growth Trust | 2.2 | 15 Mar |
| Sage Group Ord 1p | 8.65 | 4 Mar |
| Tritax Big Box REIT Ord 1p | 3 | 9 Mar |
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.
