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 12 April
Finals: Belvoir (BLV), Concurrent Technologies (CNC), Elixirr International (ELIX), Instem (INS), Oxford Technology VCT (OXT), Quixant (QXT)
AGM: Cineworld (CINE)
Companies paying dividends: Duke Royalty (0.55p), US Solar Fund (0.3649p)
Tuesday 13 April
Economics: Retail sales, balance of trade, index of services, industrial production, manufacturing production
Trading updates: Electrocomponents (ECM), Plus500 (PLUS), XP Power (XPP)
Interim: Revolution Bars (RBG)
Finals: French Connection (FCCN), Good Energy (GOOD), JD Sports Fashion (JD.), JTC (JTC), Next Fifteen Communications (NFC), Northbridge Industrial Services (NBI), SigmaRoc (SRC), SourceBio International (SBI), XLMedia (XLM)
AGMs: Good Energy (GOOD)
Companies paying dividends: Clinigen (2.15p)
Wednesday 14 April
Trading updates: Audioboom (BOOM), PageGroup (PAGE), Robert Walters (RWA)
Finals: Anglo Pacific Group (APF), Destiny Pharma (DEST), Futura Medical (FUM), Tesco (TSCO), The Mission Group (TMG)
AGM: Smith & Nephew (SN.)
Company paying dividends: Oxford Instruments (4.1p)
Thursday 15 April
Trading updates: Deliveroo (ROO), Entain (ENT), Hays (HAS), Naked Wines (WINE), Norcros (NXR), THG (THG), Travis Perkins (TPK)
Finals: Epwin (EPWN), Intelligent Ultrasound Group (IUG), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Puretech Health (PRTC), THG (THG)
AGMs: Heavitree Brewery (HVT), Helios Towers (HTWS), John Lewis Of Hungerford (JLH)
Companies paying dividends: Craneware (12p), Ferrexpo (28.48p), Law Debenture (8p), London Metric Property (2.1p), Micro Focus International (11.3p), Oakley Capital Investments (2.25p), Rio Tinto (66.77p special, 221.86p), River and Mercantile (0.5p special, 3.89p)
Friday 16 April
Trading updates: Ashmore (ASHM)
AGMs: Leeds Building Society (LBS)
Companies paying dividends: Brooks Macdonald (23p), Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (2.5p), Maven Income & Growth VCT 3 (1p), Securities Trust of Scotland (1.375p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 15 April
| Companies | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Alpha FX Group | 8 | 14-May-21 |
| Barratt Developments Ord 10p | 7.5 | 10-May-21 |
| EMIS Group Ord 1p | 16 | 14-May-21 |
| F&C Investment Trust | 3.4 | 13-May-21 |
| Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust | 2 | 03-Jun-21 |
| Gresham Technologies | 0.75 | 20-May-21 |
| Ibstock Ord 1p | 1.6 | 14-May-21 |
| Kenmare Resources Ord Eur0.06 | 5.61 | 19-May-21 |
| Legal & General Ord 2.5p | 12.64 | 27-May-21 |
| Lloyds Banking Group | 0.57 | 25-May-21 |
| Manchester & London Inv Tst Ord 25p | 7 | 04-May-21 |
| Old Mutual(Ltd) | 1.73 | 24-May-21 |
| Schroder Asian TR Inv Co | 7.1 | 14-May-21 |
| St. James's Place Capital Ord 15p | 38.49 | 21-May-21 |
| Standard Life Aberdeen | 7.3 | 25-May-21 |
| STV Group | 6 | 28-May-21 |
| Unite Group Ord 25p | 12.75 | 21-May-21 |
| Vesuvius | 14.3 | 21-May-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.
