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 22 March
Economics: Current account
Finals: Blackbird (BIRD), Centamin (CEY), Kingfisher (KGF), Yew Grove Reit (YEW)
AGMs: Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT2 (GV2O), Gresham House Renewable VCT 1 (GV1O)
Tuesday 23 March
Economics: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate
Interims: Essensys (ESYS), MJ Hudson (MJH), YouGov (YOU)
Finals: Alliance Pharma (APH), Arrow Global (ARW), Cambridge Cognition (COG), DP Eurasia NV (DPEU), Elementis (ELM), Energean (ENOG), Ergomed (ERGO), Gamma Communications (GAMA), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), Henry Boot (BOOT), H&T (HAT), Judges Scientific (JDG), Longboat Energy (LBE), LoopUp (LOOP), Luceco (LUCE), McColl's Retail (MCLS), MP Evans (MPE), Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1), Nucleus (NUC), Old Mutual (OMU), Pebble (PEBB), Personal Group (PGH), Zotefoams (ZTF)
AGMs: BlackRock North American Income Trust (BRNA), Crest Nicholson (CRST), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Wynnstay (WYN)
Company paying dividend: Driver (0.75p)
Wednesday 24 March
Economics: Consumer price index, producer price index, retail price index
Trading update: Diploma (DPLM)
Interims: Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), Bellway (BWY), Diploma (DPLM), Frontier IP (FIPP), Softcat (SCT)
Finals: Anglo Pacific (APF), Burford Capital (BUR), Circassia (CIR), CPP (CPP), ECSC (ECSC), Kenmare Resources (KMR), Keywords Studios (KWS), Pendragon (PDG), Sopheon (SPE), Strix (KETL), T Clarke (CTO), Telit Communications (TCM)
AGMs: Arden Partners (ARDN), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Highway Capital (HWC), Mitchells & Butlers (MAB), N4 Pharma (N4P), Oxford BioDynamics (OBD), Pantheon Resources (PANR), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Shanta Gold (SHG)
Thursday 25 March
Interims: Compass (CPG), CVS (CVSG), Genedrive (GDR)
Finals: Allied Minds (ALM), Arbuthnot Banking (ARBB), Ascential (ASCL), BBGI Global Infrastructure SA (BBGI), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Cineworld (CINE), Ebiquity (EBQ), EnQuest (ENQ), Equiniti (EQN), Faron Pharmaceuticals OY (FARN), Funding Circle (FCH), International Public Partnerships (INPP), IQE (IQE), Lamprell (LAM), Learning Technologies (LTG), Regional Reit (RGL), Robinson (RBN), S4 Capital (SFOR), Safestyle UK (SFE), Secure Trust Bank (STB), Sig (SHI), Surgical Innovations (SUN), Tandem (TND), United Utilities (UU), Venture Life (VLG)
AGMs: Banco Santander SA (BNC), Micro Focus International (MCRO), SSP (SSPG), TUI (TUI)
Friday 26 March
Economics: Retail sales
Interim: Smiths (SMIN)
AGMs: Beazley (BEZ), CC Japan Income & Growth Trust (CCJI), Henderson Opportunities Trust (HOT), PCF (PCF), Sigma Capital (SGM)
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust (5.2p), BP (3.888p), Diversified Gas and Oil (3.07p), GCP Student Living (0.25p), Henderson Opportunities Trust (7.5p), Impax Asset Management (6.8p), LXI Reit (1.44p), Mattioli Woods (7.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 25 March
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| BB Healthcare Trust | 2.5 | 30-Apr-21 |
| British American Tobacco Ord 25p | 53.9 | 12-May-21 |
| CLS Ord 2.5p | 5.2 | 29-Apr-21 |
| Glanbia | 11.38 | 07-May-21 |
| Globaldata Ord 1/14p | 11.6 | 23-Apr-21 |
| IDOX Ord 1p | 0.3 | 09-Apr-21 |
| Kingspan Ord € | 17.91 | 07-May-21 |
| NatWest | 3 | 04-May-21 |
| Nichols Ord 10p | 8.8 | 06-May-21 |
| Oakley Capital Investments Ord 1p | 2.25 | 15-Apr-21 |
| Pearson Ord 25p | 13.5 | 07-May-21 |
| Prudential Ord 5p | 7.66 | 14-May-21 |
| Schroders Vtg £1 | 79 | 06-May-21 |
| Securities Trust of Scotland Ord 25p | 1.375 | 16-Apr-21 |
| TR European Growth Trust Ord 12.5p | 8.2 | 23-Apr-21 |
| Vistry | 20 | 21-May-21 |
| Volution | 1.9 | 04-May-21 |
| XP Power Ord 1p | 36 | 28-Apr-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.
