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 31 July
Interims: Arix Bioscience, Coats, Fidessa, HSBC, Hutchison China Meditech, Senior, Trinity Mirror, XP Power
AGMs: Mothercare, National Grid, Salvar
EGMs: Highlands Natural Resources, Proactis
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply
Companies paying dividends: Anpario (5.5p), Caledonia Investments (special) (100p), Charles Stanley (4.5p), Duke Royalty (0.5p), Ediston Property Investment (0.4583p), European Investment Trust (8p), European Investment Trust (special) (1.5p), Fidelity China Special Situation (2.5p), Hibernia Reit (1.16p), JD Sports Fashion (1.3p), Mediclinic International (4.7p), PayPoint (30p), PayPoint (special) (24.5p), Schroder Income Growth Fund (2p), Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund (3.1p), PayPoint Select Monthly Income (0.5p), UK Mortgages (1.5p), Vertu Motors (0.9p)
Tuesday 1 August
Interims: 4imprint, BBA Aviation, BP, Centrica, Direct Line Insurance, Elementis, Twentyfour, Fresnillo, Gocompare.Com, Genel Energy, Greggs, Intertek, Keller, LSL Property Services, Man, Meggitt, Rolls-Royce, SDL, Taylor Wimpey
Finals: Filtronic, NWF
Trading statement: CYBG
AGMs: Plastics Capital, Vp, Work
Economics: Markit UK PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Electronic Data Processing (2p), Empiric Student Property (1.525p), Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust (2.5p), Hogg Robinson (1.925p), Johnson Matthey (54.5p), Kcom (4p), Mercantile Investment Trust (10.5p), Next (105p), Next (special) (45p), Stride Gaming (1.2p), Tate & Lyle (19.8p), TR Property Investment Trust (6.4p)
Wednesday 2 August
Interims: Aggreko, BAE Systems, Devro, Dignity, Eurocell, Johnston Press, Novae, Rio Tinto, RSA Insurance, Smurfit Kappa, Standard Chartered, StatPro, Travis Perkins, William Hill
Trading statements: AG Barr, Vedanta Resources
AGMs: CML Microsystems, Snoozebox
Economics: BRC shop price index, Markit/CIPS UK construction PMI
Companies paying dividends: Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (10.5p), Montanaro European Smaller Companies (6.5p), Record (1.175p)
Thursday 3 August
Interims: Aviva, Bupa Finance, Centamin, Cobham, Communisis, ConvaTec, Dairy Farm Holdings, esure, Ferrexpo, Inmarsat, London Stock Exchange, Mondi, OM Asset Management, Portmeirion, Serco, Shire, Spirent Communications
Trading statements: International Consolidated Airlines, Next, UDG Healthcare
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK services, composite PMI, Official reserves, Bank of England base rate announcement, asset purchase target, corporate bond target, inflation report
Companies paying dividends: Caledonia Investments (39.9p), De La Rue (16.7p), Homeserve (11.2p), ITE (1.5p), Norcros (4.8p), Smith (WH) (14.6p)
Friday 4 August
Interims: FBD, Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate, Merlin Entertainments, Pearson, Royal Bank of Scotland, RPS
Trading statement: S&U
AGMs: APQ Global, Bilby, BlueRock Diamonds, Obtala
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: Aquila Services (0.5p), Autins (0.4p), Aveva (27p), B&M European Value Retail (3.9p), Bonmarché (4.64p), British Land (7.3p), Brown (N) (8.56p), Burberry (28.4p), Caffyns (15p), CC Japan Income & Growth Trust (1.15p), Frenkel Topping (0.2969p), Game Digital (1p), Heavitree Brewery (3.675p), Heavitree Brewery ‘A’ Limited Voting (3.675p), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt (1.5p), Intermediate Capital (19.5p), Monks Investment Trust (1.25p), NewRiver Reit (5.25p), NewRiver Reit (special) (3p), Next Fifteen Communications (3.75p), North American Income (7.5p), Octopus Aim VCT (3p), TalkTalk (5p), ULS Technology (1.1p), United Utilities (25.92p), Vodafone (8.35p), Wincanton (6.1p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 3 August
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aberdeen New Dawn Inv Tst ord 5p | 3 | 1 Sep |
Albion Enterprise VCT | 2.5 | 31 Aug |
Axiom European Financial Debt NPV | 1.5 | 25 Aug |
BB Healthcare Trust | 1.75 | 31 Aug |
CMC Markets | 5.95 | 25 Aug |
Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst ord 25p | 2.575 | 25 Aug |
Halfords ord 1p | 11.68 | 25 Aug |
Helical | 6.2 | 25 Aug |
Henderson Far East Income Trust ord NPV | 5.3 | 31 Aug |
Independent Investment Trust | 2 | 25 Aug |
International Biotechnology Tst ord 25p | 11.5 | 31 Aug |
Latham (James) ord 25p | 10.85 | 25 Aug |
Micro Focus International 10p | 45.22 | 25 Aug |
Moneysupermarket.com ord O.02p | 2.84 | 1 Sep |
Motorpoint | 2.9 | 1 Sep |
Octopus Titan VCT | 2 | 25 Aug |
QinetiQ ord 1p | 4 | 1 Sep |
Sanderson ord10p | 1.1 | 18 Aug |
Unilever ord 3 1/9p | 31.83 | 6 Sep |
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.
