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 on at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 28 January
Interim: Seagate Technology
Finals: Amino Technologies, Porvair, SThree
Trading statements: Cranswick, Mitie, Ryanair
AGMs: Angel Biotechnology, Evocutis
Economics: Hometrack housing survey, Nationwide house prices data
Tuesday 29 January
Interims: Mattioli Woods, NWF, PZ Cussons
Trading statements: Aquarius Platinum, British Land, Carpetright, William Hill
AGMs: Alternative Networks, Character, Greencore, Next Fifteen Communications, Travelzest, Tricor
Wednesday 30 January
Interim: Renishaw
Final: Safestore
Trading statements: Antofagasta, Polymetal International, United Utilities
AGM: Imperial Tobacco
Economics: Net consumer credit figures, M4 money supply figures, mortgage approvals data
Thursday 31 January
Interims: British Sky Broadcasting, Diageo, Haynes Publishing, Rank
Finals: AstraZeneca, Royal Dutch Shell
Trading statements: Air Partner, Babcock International, Brewin Dolphin, Enterprise Inns, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Great Portland Estates, Hansa Trust, Investec, Kazakhmys, Kcom, Mitchells & Butlers, Titon, Vedanta Resources
AGMs: Artillium, Enterprise Inns, Euromoney Institutional Investor, ITE, Lonmin, Mitchells & Butlers
Economics: GfK Consumer confidence survey (January)
Like any integrated major, Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) has many moving parts; a point that will be aptly demonstrated within its 2012 full-year results. No single operational issue will dominate, but it will be interesting to note whether the welcome improvement in third quarter refining margins has been maintained. Indeed, refining margins in the US have improved partly as a result of the reversal of the historic WTI premium over Brent crude, but this dynamic has also been weighing on margins for Shell’s upstream business in North America.
Shell’s net capital investment for the year should amount to approximately $30bn (£18.5bn), but the 2012 results won’t include substantive benefits of the group’s huge aggregate capital outlay of recent years. Indeed, Shell reported that its third-quarter production had increased by just one per cent, even after discounting the effects of last year’s production shut-ins at its Nigerian facilities, so shareholders won’t be expecting an upsurge in output just yet. More attention will centre on the monetisation timetable for a number of the group’s big-ticket capital projects, such as the $40bn Browse LNG project in Western Australia.
Friday 1 February
Final: Derwent London
Trading statements: BT, Electrocomponents, Tate & Lyle
EGM: Ablon
Economics: Purchasing Managers' index - manufacturing
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Albion Enterprise VCT | 1.75 | 28 Feb |
| Andor Technology | 2 | 28 Feb |
| BlackRock Frontiers Inv Trust | 1.635 | 8 Mar |
| Fenner | 7 | 4 Mar |
| Latchways | 11 | 1 Mar |
| Pennon | 8.76 | 4 Apr |
| Renew | 2.1 | 4 Mar |
| Treatt | 10.4 | 8 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 Wednesday. The record date is usually two days after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
