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Week Ahead: 24-28 July

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
July 20, 2017

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 24 July

 

Interims: Ascential, Dialight, McColl’s Retail, Microgen, Reckitt Benckiser, SThree

 

Final: Tungsten Corp

 

Trading statements: Cranswick, Ryanair

 

AGMs: Active Energy, Connemara Mining, Cranswick, Mx Oil, Paternoster Resources, Petrel Resources, Prime People, Proxama, Solo Oil, Uvenco

 

EGM: Proxama  

 

Companies paying dividends: Gabelli Value+ Trust (1.2p), MS International (6.5p), The Mission Marketing (1p)

 

 

Tuesday 25 July

 

Interims:  Croda International, Domino’s Pizza, Fevertree Drinks, Gresham Technologies, Informa, Pentair, Provident Financial, Rathbone Brothers, Segro, Spectris, Tyman, Virgin Money

 

Finals: Games Workshop, PZ Cussons

 

Trading statements: Intermediate Capital, Victrex

 

AGMs: Acal, Big Sofa Technologies, Fuller Smith & Turner, GB Group, Intermediate Capital, Mediclinic, Mytrah Energy, Volex

 

EGMs: Centaur Media, DS Smith, Safestore Holdings, Surface Transforms

 

Economics:  CBI business optimism, total orders, selling prices

 

Companies paying dividends:  Coca-Cola (37.93p), Hargreave Hale VCT2 (4p)

 

 

Wednesday 26 July

 

Interims: CNH Industrial, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Graphics SE, Hammerson, Huntsworth, International Personal Finance, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, GKN, ITV, Jupiter Fund Management, Metrobank, Quartix Holdings, Shawbrook, Staffline, Tarsus, Tullow Oil, Unite

 

Finals: Joules Group, Van Elle Holdings

 

Trading statements: 3i, Antofagasta, Brewin Dolphin, Compass Group, Marston’s, Paragon Group of Companies, Sage Group

 

AGMs: Evgen Pharma, Flybe, FreeAgent Holdings, Graphene Nanochem, Halfords, James Cropper, Mitie, Motorpoint, PayPoint, Polar Capital, Vertu Motors

 

EGM: Monitise

 

Economics: BBA house purchase loans, GDP (Q2), Index of services

 

Companies paying dividends: Cardiff Property (4p), Electrocomponents (7.3p)

 

 

Thursday 27 July

 

Interims: Anglo American, AstraZeneca, Bodycote, British American Tobacco, Burford Capital, Countrywide, Dialog Semiconductor, Foxtons, Impellam, Inchcape, Indivior, Intu Properties, Just Eat, Lancashire Holdings, Lloyds Banking, National Express, Primary Health Properties, RELX, Rentokil Initial, Royal Dutch Shell, Schroders, Smith & Nephew, St James’s Place, Vesuvius, Weir Group

 

Finals: Angle, Diageo, Renishaw

 

Trading statements: Britvic, CMC Markets, Daily Mail & General Trust, Hogg Robinson, Kaz Minerals, Ladbrokes Coral Group, Tate & Lyle, Thomas Cook

 

AGMs: 1Spatial, Aquila Services, Bonmarche Holdings, Caffyns, Charles Stanley, CMC Markets, D4t4 Solutions, Escape Hunt, Hogg Robinson, Immunodiagnostic Systems, Metal Tiger, Norcros, Orogen, Record, Tate & Lyle, Trifast

 

EGMs: Thor Mining, TP Group

 

Economics: CBI retailing and total distribution reported sales

 

Companies paying dividends: Big Yellow (14.1p), Fuller Smith & Turner ‘A’ Ord (11.55p), JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (1p), Land Securities (11.7p), McKay Securities (6.3p), Netcall (1.05p)

 

 

Friday 28 July

 

Interims: Barclays, Berendsen, Equiniti, Essentra, Holders Technology, IMI, International Consolidated Airlines, Laird, Morgan Advanced Materials, Rightmove, UBM

 

Trading statements: BT Group, Lonmin

 

AGMs: Amur Minerals, Bellzone Mining, Boxhill Technologies, Diversified Gas & Oil, Gear4Music, Johnson Matthey, MetalINRG, Red Leopard Holdings, RM2 International, ULS Technology, United Utilities, Vodafone

 

Economics: GfK consumer confidence (July)

 

Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund (0.875p), Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.75p), Acal (6.05p), BP Marsh & Partners (3.76p), Biffa (2.4p), Bisichi Mining (3p), Braemar Shipping Services (5p), Character Group (9p), Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust (2.15p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.325p), Lowland Investment (12p), Majestic Wines (3.6p), Marwyn Value Investors (2.064p), Octopus Apollo VCT (1.7p), Pacific Industrial & Logistics (3p), Palace Capital (9.5p), Paragon Group of Companies (4.7p), Prime People (3.25p), Ranger Direct Lending (26.93p), Real Estate Investors (0.75p), Renewi (2.1p), Royal Mail (15.6p), Scottish Investment Trust (5.5p), Shires Income (3.75p), St Mark Homes (5.5p), Telecom Plus (25p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.65p), UP Global Sourcing Holdings (1.62p), Vianet (4p)

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 27 July

 

Company

Dividend (p)

Payment

Bankers Investment Trust Ord 25p

4.7

31 Aug

Bilby  Ord 10p

1.5

30 Aug

Custodian Reit

1.6125

31 Aug

Fenner

1.4

7 Sep

Investec Ord 0.2p

13

14 Aug

Porvair Ord 2p (new Co )

1.5

1 Sep

Somero Enterprises

10.3

14 Aug

SSE Ord 50p

63.9

22 Sep

System1 Group (special)

26.1

23 Aug

System1 Group

6.4

23 Aug

 

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.