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.
Monday 25 October
Trading updates: HSBC (HSBA)
Economics: US home sales
Interims: DP Poland (DPP)
Finals: Croma Security Solutions (CSSG)
AGMs: Bezant Resources (BZT), Challenger Energy (CEG), Galileo Resources (GLR), Xtract Resources (XTR)
Companies paying dividends: Midwich (3.3p)
Tuesday 26 October
Trading updates: RWS Holdings (RWS), Reckitt Benckiser (RKT)
Interims: e-Therapeutics plc (ETX), Whitbread (WTB)
Finals: Softcat (SCT), Kin and Karta (KCT)
Companies paying dividends: Morgan Sindall (30.0p)
Wednesday 27 October
Economics: BRC Shop Price Index
Trading updates: ContourGlobal (GLO), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Interims: Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY)
Finals: Pipehawk (PIP)
AGMs: Cap-XX Ltd (CPX), Frontier Developments (FDEV), Hargreaves Services (HSP), Ideagen (IDEA), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Mirada (MIRA), Pantheon International (PIN), Springfield Properties (SPR)
Companies paying dividends: Driver Group (0.75p), Smith & Nephew (14.4ȼ)
Thursday 28 October
Trading updates: Hunting (HTG), Inchcape (INCH), Lloyds Banking (LLOY)
Interims: Airtel Africa (AAF), C&C Group (CCR)
Finals: J Smart & Co (SMJ)
AGMs: Brooks Macdonald (BRK), Filtronic (FTC), Rosslyn Data Technologies (RDT), South32 Ltd (S32), Tirupati Graphite (TGR)
Companies paying dividends: Mears Group (2.5p), Smart Metering Systems (6.875p), Law Debenture Corp (6.875p)
Friday 29 October
Economics: Consumer Credit, M4 Money Supply, Mortgage Approvals
Trading updates: Evraz (EVR)
Interims: Scancell Holdings (SCLP), Time Out Group (TMO)
AGMs: ADM Energy (ADME), ITM Power (ITM), Mattioli Woods (MTW), MaxCyte Inc (MXCT), OPG Power Ventures (OPG), Sensyne Health (SENS)
Companies paying dividends: Doric Nimrod Air One (2.25p), Doric Nimrod Air Two (4.0p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 28 October
| Companies | Dividend (p) | Pay Date |
| Avingtrans Ord 5p | 4 | 10-12-2021 |
| Bankers Investment Trust Ord 25p | 5.5 | 30-11-2021 |
| Brunner Inv Tst Ord 25p | 4.7 | 10-12-2021 |
| City of London Inv Tst Ord 25p | 4.8 | 30-11-2021 |
| CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income | 1.26 | 30-11-2021 |
| Dechra Pharmaceuticals Ord 1p | 29.39 | 19-11-2021 |
| Dunelm Group Ord 1p | 23 | 19-11-2021 |
| Ferguson | 121.5 | 10-12-2021 |
| Fidelity Asian Values Ord 25p | 8.8 | 08-12-2021 |
| Foresight Solar Fund | 1.745 | 26-11-2021 |
| Gleeson (MJ) Group Ord 2p | 10 | 23-11-2021 |
| Hammerson Ord 25p | 0.2 | 07-12-2021 |
| Headlam Group Ord 5p | 5.8 | 29-11-2021 |
| Morgan Advanced Materials Ord 25p | 3.2 | 19-11-2021 |
| Next Fifteen Communications Ord 2.5p | 3.6 | 26-11-2021 |
| Pittards Ord 25p | 0.5 | 25-11-2021 |
| S&U Ord 12.5p | 33 | 19-11-2021 |
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.
