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 28 February
Economics: Nationwide house price index
Trading update: Kosmos Energy (KOS)
Interim: Associated British Foods (ABF)
Finals: BATM Advanced Communications (BVC), Bunzl (BNZL), CentralNic (CNIC), GlobalData (DATA), Greencoat Renewables (GRP), Kitwave (KITW)
AGM: Ramsdens (RFX)
Companies paying dividends: Albion Enterprise VCT (3.22p), Alternative Income Reit (1.3p), Compass (14p), Custodian Reit (1.375p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.745p), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (1p), Totally (0.5p)
Tuesday 1 March
Economics: Consumer credit, M4 money supply, mortgage approvals, PMI manufacturing
Interims: Pci-Pal (PCIP), Revolution Bars (RBG)
Finals: Abrdn (ABDN), Croda International (CRDA), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), GetBusy (GETB), Honeycomb Investment Trust (HONY), Intertek (ITRK), IWG (IWG), Man (EMG), PPHE Hotel (PPH), Quartix Technologies (QTX), Reach (RCH), RHI Magnesita NV (RHIM), Rotork (ROR), Travis Perkins (TPK), Uniphar (UPR), Vitec (VTC), XP Power (XPP)
AGM: Velocity Composites (VEL)
Wednesday 2 March
Economics: BRC shop price index
Interims: Hotel Chocolat (HOTC), Supermarket Income Reit (SUPR)
Finals: Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Ascential (ASCL), Aviva (AV.), Devro (DVO), Foxtons (FOXT), Hiscox (HSX), KRM22 (KRM), MusicMagpie (MMAG), Nichols (NICL), Persimmon (PSN), Polymetal International (POLY), Trustpilot (TRST), Vistry (VTY)
AGMs: Ecofin Global Utilities & Infrastructure Trust (EGL), Mila Resources (MILA), Paragon Banking (PAG), River & Mercantile UK Micro Cap Investment Company (RMMC)
Thursday 3 March
Economics: PMI services
Interims: Allergy Therapeutics (AGY), Avation (AVAP), Darktrace (DARK), dotDigital (DOTD), Galliford Try (GFRD), Hansard Global (HSD)
Finals: Admiral (ADM), Cairn Homes (CRN), Coats (COA), CRH (CRH), Elementis (ELM), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Entain (ENT), Franchise Brands (FRAN), Hunting (HTG), Hutchmed (China) (HCM), ITV (ITV), London Stock Exchange (LSEG), Meggitt (MGGT), Melrose Industries (MRO), Mondi (MNDI), PageGroup (PAGE), Parity (PTY), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Schroders (SDR), Spire Healthcare (SPI), Synthomer (SYNT), Taylor Wimpey (TW.), Tritax Big Box Reit (BBOX), Vesuvius (VSVS)
AGMs: Chemring (CHG), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Petro Matad (MATD), Zytronic (ZYT)
Friday 4 March
Economics: PMI construction
Finals: Essentra (ESNT), FBD (FBH), Hammerson (HMSO), Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM)
AGM: JPMorgan Russian Securities (JRS)
Companies paying dividends: Baronsmead Second Venture Trust (3.5p), Capital for Colleagues (1.5p), DWF (1.5p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (1.7p), NCC (1.5p), Paragon Banking (18.9p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 3 March
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Ashmore ord 0.01P | 4.8 | 30 Mar 22 |
| CareTech ord 0.5p | 9.5 | 4 May 22 |
| Diversified EnergyCo | 3.1 | 28 Mar 22 |
| Gleeson (MJ) ord 2p | 6 | 4 Apr 22 |
| Gresham House Energy | 1.75 | 25 Mar 22 |
| PayPoint ord 1/3p | 8.5 | 7 Mar 22 |
| Warehouse Reit | 1.55 | 1 Apr 22 |
| Zytronic ord 1p | 1.5 | 18 Mar 22 |
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.
