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 14 December
Trading update: SThree (STEM)
Final: Hollywood Bowl (BOWL)
AGMs: Celtic (CCP), Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Kibo Energy (KIBO), Proactis (PHD), River & Mercantile (RIV)
Company paying dividend: North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust (30p)
Tuesday 15 December
Economics: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate
Interim: Purplebricks (PURP)
Finals: Chemring (CHG), Driver (DRV), Shaftesbury (SHB), SSP (SSPG)
AGMs: Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), Blancco Technology (BLTG), International Biotechnology Trust (IBT), Sareum (SAR), Tristel (TSTL)
Companies paying dividends: Asia Dragon Trust (4.75p), Craneware (15p), Pan African Resources (0.6545p), Volex (1.1p)
Wednesday 16 December
Economics: Consumer price index, producer price index, retail price index
Interims: Dixons Carphone (DC.), FRP Advisory (FRP)
Final: Real Good Food (RGD)
AGMs: Innovaderma (IDP), Ncondezi Energy (NCCL), Oilex (OEX), Orosur Mining (OMI), United Carpets (UCG)
Companies paying dividends: Diversified Gas and Oil (2.69p), Royal Dutch Shell (12.87p)
Thursday 17 December
Economics: Retail sales, interest rate decision
Interim: Watches Of Switzerland (WOSG)
Finals: Integrafin (IHP), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Revolution Bars (RGB)
AGMs: Amiad Water Systems (AFS), BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), EQTEC (EQT), European Metals (EMH), Falanx (FLX), Focusrite (TUNE), Frontier IP (FIPP), Griffin Mining (GFM), JD Wetherspoon (JDW), Kier (KIE), Netcall (NET), Ovoca Bio (OVB), Petra Diamonds (PDL), Solgold (SOLG), Transense Technologies (TRT)
Company paying dividend: Murray Income Trust (12.55p)
Friday 18 December
Economics: Current account
AGMs: Conygar Investment Company (CIC), Gfinity (GFIN), Petroneft Resources (PTR), Wey Education (WEY)
Companies paying dividends: BioPharma Credit (1.75p), BP (4.038p), Electrocomponents (9.5p), Hammerson (2p), iEnergizer (5.72p), Orchard Funding Group (2p), Sainsbury’s (3.2p interim, 7.3p special), Scottish American Investment (3p), Vivo Energy (2.03p), Witan Investment Company (1.34p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 17 December
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Alliance Pharma ord 1p | 0.536 | 7 Jan 21 |
| British American Tobacco ord 25p | 52.6 | 3 Feb 21 |
| Britvic ord 25p | 21.6 | 3 Feb 21 |
| Cranswick ord 10p | 18.7 | 29 Jan 21 |
| discoverIE | 3.15 | 15 Jan 21 |
| Polar Capital ord 2.5p | 9 | 8 Jan 21 |
| Sirius Real Estate € | 1.62 | 21 Jan 21 |
| United Utilities | 14.41 | 1 Feb 21 |
| Vodafone ord $0.11 3/7 | 3.45 | 5 Feb 21 |
The ex-dividend day 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.
IC ONLINE
The data in the table above is a small selection of what’s available on our website. Just go to www.investorschronicle.co.uk/shares and click on the dividend calendar box. You can download a full table of ex-dividend dates as an Excel spreadsheet. The dividend calendar is updated every Friday.
