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 17 July
Trading statements: Rio Tinto
AGM: DP Aircraft
EGM: Inspired Energy
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Companies paying dividends: Compass Group (special) (61p), Foresight 4VCT (special) (4p), Gooch & Housego (3.7p), Mucklow (A&J) (4.94p)
Tuesday 18 July
Finals: Ideagen, IG Group, NCC Group
Trading statement: BHP Billiton, dotDigital, Experian, Wizz Air Holdings
AGMs: Ambrian, Assura, Bloomsbury Publishing, British Land, Dairy Crest, Firstgroup, N Brown, Scapa Group, Summit Therapeutics
EGM: Magnolia Petroleum
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Gama Aviation (2.6p), Thwaites (Daniel) (3.36p)
Wednesday 19 July
Interim: Drax
Trading statements: Evraz, QinetiQ, RPC, Severn Trent, TalkTalk Telecom
AGMs: Advanced Oncotherapy, Biffa, BP Marsh & Partners, Kellan Group, Lombard Risk Management, People’s Operator Holdings, QinetiQ, Renold, RPC Group, Severn Trent, TalkTalk Telecom
EGM: British American Tobacco
Companies paying dividends: Assura (0.6p)
Thursday 20 July
Interims: Howden Joinery, Jarvis Securities, Moneysupermarket.com, Nichols, Unilever
Final: Sports Direct International
Trading statements: Anglo American, easyJet, Premier Foods, SSE
AGMs: Big Yellow Group, Chamberlin, Custodian REIT, De La Rue, Electrocomponents, Flowgroup, Halma, Premier Foods, Royal Mail, Rurelec, SSE, Telecom Plus
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: DCC (74.63p), Templeton Emerging Markets (8.25p), Wynnstay Properties (10.25p)
Friday 21 July
Interims: Acacia Mining, Beazley, Capital & Counties Properties
Trading statement: AO World, Empresaria, Vodafone
AGMs: AO World, Georgian Mining, Homeserve, KCOM
EGM: Hurricane Energy
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: 3i Group (18.5p), BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust (1p), Experian (22.25p), Games Workshop (20p), Gresham House (15p), Liontrust Asset Management (11p), Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust (0.9p), NEX Group (27p), Northern Investors (30p), Panther Securities (9p), Premier Technical Services (0.7p), Real Estate Credit Investments (3p), Record (special) (0.91p), RWS Holdings (1.3p), Severn Trent (48.9p), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (6p), Tex Holdings (6p), Urban & Civic (1.2p), Warpaint London (1.5p), Zytronic (3.8p)
Companies going ex-dividend on
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Aquila Sevices Group | 0.5 | 4 Aug |
Creighton's Ord 20p | 0.23 | 18 Aug |
Empiric Student Property | 1.525 | 1 Aug |
Fenner Ord 25p | 1.4 | 7 Sep |
Frenkel Topping Group Ord 0.5p | 0.2969 | 4 Aug |
GB Group Ord 2.5p | 2.35 | 25 Aug |
Heavitree Brewery 'A' Lim.V Ord 5p | 3.675 | 4 Aug |
Heavitree Brewery Ord 5p | 3.675 | 4 Aug |
Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings Ord 2p | 4 | 18 Aug |
Martin Currie Pacific Trust | 8.43 | 11 Aug |
Prime People Ord 1p | 3.25 | 28 Jul |
Scapa Group Ord 41 2/3p | 2 | 18 Aug |
Shoe Zone Ord 1p | 3.4 | 16 Aug |
Syncona | 2.3 | 23 Aug |
U & I Group | 3.5 | 17 Aug |
Unicorn AIM VCT | 3 | 11 Aug |
Vedanta Resources Ord US$0.10 | 27.7 | 23 Aug |
Walker Greenbank Ord 1p | 3.06 | 17 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 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.
