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 15 April
Trading updates: Ashmore (ASHM), Berkeley (BKG), Kainos (KNOS)
Finals: Equals (EQLS)
Companies paying dividends: Craneware (13p), R.E.A. Holdings (11.5p)
Tuesday 16 April
Economics: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate
Trading updates: Integrafin (IHP), Petra Diamonds (PDL), QinetiQ (QQ.), Rio Tinto (RIO), Robert Walters (RWA)
Interims: Gattaca (GATC)
Finals: Billington (BILN), Everyman Media (EMAN), Gresham Technologies (GHT), Next 15 (NFG)
AGMs: M&G (MNG), Nexteq (NXQ), Nexus Infrastructure (NEXS), Porvair (PRV), Tullow Oil (TLW)
Companies paying dividends: Brooks Macdonald (29p), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (4.61p), Personal Assets Trust (1.4p)
Wednesday 17 April
Economics: Consumer price index, producer price index, retail price index
Trading updates: Antofagasta (ANTO), Brooks Macdonald (BRK), easyJet (EZJ), Entain (ENT), Hays (HAS), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO)
Finals: Inspecs (SPEC), M Winkworth (WINK), Saga (SAGA) Touchstar (TST)
AGMs: Hunting (HTG), Team (TEAM)
Companies paying dividends: CRH ($0.35), Diageo (32.05p), Ithaca Energy (10.4814p)
Thursday 18 April
Trading updates: AJ Bell (AJB), Centamin (CEY), Deliveroo (ROO), discoverIE (DSCV), Dunelm (DNLM), Foxtons (FOXT), Hays (HAS), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Segro (SGRO)
Finals: Keystone Law (KEYS), LBG Media (LBG), Pod Point (PODP)
AGMs: Aquis Exchange (AQX), Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), Jarvis Securities (JIM), Segro (SGRO), Team Internet (TIG), Thorpe (F.W) plc (TFW)
Companies paying dividends: Redcentric (1.2p), Rio Tinto (203.77p)
Friday 19 April
Economics: GFK consumer confidence, retail sales
Finals: Nostrum Oil & Gas (NOG)
AGMs: Murray International Trust (MYI), Nostrum Oil & Gas (NOG), Symphony Environmental Technologies (SYM), Uniphar (UPR)
Companies paying dividends: Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (3.15p), Empiric Student Property (0.9375p), Heavitree Brewery (3.5p), JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (1p), Palace Capital (3.75p), STS Global Income & Growth Trust (1.965p), Thorpe (F.W) (1.7p)
| Companies going ex-dividend on 18 April | ||
|---|---|---|
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Airea | 0.55 | 20-May-2024 |
| Antofagasta | $0.243 | 10-May-2024 |
| Arbuthnot Banking Group | 27 | 31-May-2024 |
| BAE Systems | 18.5 | 3-Jun-2024 |
| Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon | 0.8 | 30-May-2024 |
| Bridgepoint Group | 4.4 | 21-May-2024 |
| Capital | $0.026 | 15-May-2024 |
| Costain Group | 0.8 | 28-May-2024 |
| Croda International | 62 | 29-May-2024 |
| DFS Furniture | 1.1 | 30-May-2024 |
| Dowlais Group | 2.8 | 30-May-2024 |
| Drax Group | 13.9 | 17-May-2024 |
| Fresnillo | $0.042 | 29-May-2024 |
| Invesco Bond Income Plus | 2.875 | 20-May-2024 |
| JPMorgan American Investment Trust | 5.25 | 31-May-2024 |
| JPMorgan China Growth & Income | 2.76 | 3-Jun-2024 |
| JPMorgan US Smaller Cos Inv. Trust | 3 | 17-May-2024 |
| Jupiter Fund Management | 3.4 | 20-May-2024 |
| Kier Group | 1.67 | 31-May-2024 |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 79.3 | 22-May-2024 |
| Maven Income & Growth VCT 4 | 1.75 | 24-May-2024 |
| Nippon Active Value Fund | 1.6 | 24-May-2024 |
| Old Mutual | R0.49 | 21-May-2024 |
| Quilter | 3.7 | 28-May-2024 |
| Rathbones Group | 24 | 14-May-2024 |
| Rotork | 4.65 | 24-May-2024 |
| Serco Group | 2.27 | 10-May-2024 |
| STV Group | 7.4 | 31-May-2024 |
| Thungela Resources | 41.81689 | 7-May-2024 |
| Uniphar | €0.01 | 14-May-2024 |
| Unite Group | 23.6 | 24-May-2024 |
| Vanquis Banking Group | 1 | 30-May-2024 |
| Vesuvius | 16.2 | 31-May-2024 |
| Weir Group | 20.8 | 31-May-2024 |
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.
