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 11 March
Finals: Brady, Escher, Hansteen, Hydrogen, SOCO International
Trading statement: Anite
AGM: Tricor
Tuesday 12 March
Interims: Close Brothers, St Ives
Finals: Antofagasta, Computacenter, Fresnillo, Hill & Smith, Inchcape, Quarto, SDL, Tyman
Trading statement: IG
AGM: Interbulk
Economics: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors house price data, Industrial production data, Manufacturing output data, Trade figures, National Institute of Social and Economic Research GDP estimate (February)
Wednesday 13 March
Interims: Brooks Macdonald, PureCircle
Finals: 888, Atrium European Real Estate, Cello, Evraz, Ferrexpo, French Connection, Frutarom Industries, G4S, Glanbia, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Hochschild Mining, KBC Advanced Technologies, Prudential, Statpro
Trading statement: Thomas Cook
AGM: Electronic Data Processing
Thursday 14 March
Interims: Air Partner, Quayle Munro, Regenersis
Finals: F&C Asset Management, Fairpoint, Playtech, Salamander Energy, Savills, Subsea 7, Tribal, Trinity Mirror, TT Electronics, William Morrison
Trading statements: Home Retail, Investec
AGM: Avesco
EGM: CSR
Supermarket Group Wm Morrison (MRM) releases full-year results on Thursday, but investors should brace themselves for something a sector-lagging performance. Indeed, in January the store released a lacklustre Christmas trading update which revealed that like-for-like sales (excluding fuel) had slumped 2.5 per cent in the six weeks to 30 December. Quite apart form the tough consumer backdrop, a big part of the group’s difficulties reflect a lack of exposure to the faster growth on-line and convenience store segments – although management is taking action to address this. The shares have suffered accordingly and have fallen 12 per cent since the end of September to 261p. But £931m of the group’s £1bn share buyback programme for the two years to 2013 has been completed and broker Charles Stanley is forecasting a dividend for the year to end-January 2013 of 11.8p – meaning an attractive looking yield of 4.5 per cent. The broker also expects pre-tax profit of £887m for end-January 2013, with EPS of 26.5p.
Friday 15 March
Interim: JD Wetherspoon
Finals: Bwin.party, Rentokil Initial, Synthomer
AGMs: Coburg, Ecofin Water & Power, Sarantel
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Ashmore | 4.35 | 12 Apr |
| Asian Citrus | 0.02 | 12 Apr |
| Avesco | 3 | 8 Apr |
| AZ Electronic Materials SA | 5.83 | 3 May |
| British American Tobacco | 92.7 | 8 May |
| British Assets Trust | 1.442 | 12 Apr |
| Craneware | 5.2 | 12 Apr |
| Dechra Pharmaceuticals | 4.34 | 9 Apr |
| Domino's Pizza | 7.9 | 12 Apr |
| Fidelity European Values | 27.75 | 24 May |
| Genus | 5 | 8 Apr |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | 6.3 | 11 Apr |
| Land Securities | 7.4 | 17 Apr |
| MTI Wireless Edge | 0.37 | 5 Apr |
| Safestore | 3.8 | 12 Apr |
| Standard Life UK Small Cos Trust | 1.15 | 8 Apr |
| Stewart & Wight | 7 | 10 Apr |
| Synectics | 5 | 8 May |
| Telecity | 5 | 19 Apr |
| Temple Bar Investment Trust | 22 | 28 Mar |
| Wilmington | 3.5 | 11 Apr |
| XP Power | 17 | 10 Apr |
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.
