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Week Ahead: 7-11 August

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
August 3, 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 7 August

 

Interims: Navigator Holdings, Plus500, Telit Communications, Ultra Electronics

 

AGM: Tanfield

 

Economics: Halifax house prices

 

Companies paying dividends: CML Microsystems (7.4p), Puma VCT 11 (3p), Workspace (14.27p)

 

 

Tuesday 8 August

 

Interims: Clarke (T), Intercontinental Hotels, IWG, Mereo Biopharma, Morgan Sindall, Paddy Power Betfair, Polypipe, Quarto, Rotork, SIG, Standard Life, Synthomer, TP ICAP, Worldpay, Zotefoams

 

Final: Hargreaves Services

 

Trading statements: Bellway, Pets at Home, Quotient

 

AGM: Frutarom

 

EGM: Frutarom, Milestone Group

 

Economics: BRC like-for-like sales

 

Companies paying dividends: JPM Asian Investment Trust (3.6p), Vp (16p)

 

 

Wednesday 9 August

 

Interims: G4S, Hastings Group, Interserve, Legal & General, Share, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Stock Spirits

 

Trading statement: Quantum Pharma

 

AGMs: Majestic Wine, Mountview Estates, Zamano

 

Company paying dividends: Ventus VCT (4p)

 

 

 

Thursday 10 August

 

Interims: Aldermore Group, Amec Foster Wheeler, Capital & Regional, Cineworld, Derwent London, Evraz, Glencore, Hill & Smith Holdings, Ibstock, North Midland Construction, Pagegroup, Prudential, Tritax Big Box, Vitec, Wentworth Resources

 

Trading statements: DFS Furniture, TUI Travel

 

AGMs: Creighton’s, Investec

 

EGM: HSS Hire

 

Economics: RICS house prices, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, Trade figures, NIESR GDP estimate (July)

 

Companies paying dividends: Impellam (13.5p), Tritax Big Box REIT (1.6p)

 

 

Friday 11 August

 

Interims: Old Mutual, TT Electronics

 

AGMs: iEnergiser, Samuel Heath, Tower Resources

 

Companies paying dividends: Alcentra European Floating Rate (1.07p), Amati VCT (2.5p), Babcock International (21.65p), Cropper (James) (9.3p), Dairy Crest (16.3p), Establishment Investment Trust (3.2p), Establishment Investment Trust (special) (4.3p), F&C Global Smaller Companies (8.25p), Unicorn AIM VCT (3p)

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 10 August

 

Company

Dividend (p)

Payment

Amino Technologies  Ord 1p

1.53

1 Sep

Anglo American Ord 54.945c

36.5

22 Sep

Astrazeneca Group Ord 25p

68.9

11 Sep

Avon Rubber Ord £1

4.11

8 Sep

BT Group Ord 5p

10.55

4 Sep

Diageo Ord 28 101/108p

38.5

5 Oct

Fevertree Drinks

3.01

8 Sep

Foresight Solar Fund

1.58

25 Aug

GKN Ord 50p

3.1

18 Sep

Greencoat UK Wind

1.6225

25 Aug

Greene King Ord 25p

24.4

15 Sep

Informa Ord 10p

6.65

15 Sep

Iomart Group Ord 1p

6

6 Sep

Lancashire Hldgs Com Shs  US$0.50

4

6 Sep

Law Debenture Corp Ord 25p

5.5

8 Sep

Lloyds Banking Group

1

27 Sep

Maven Income & Growth VCT 6

0.25

8 Sep

McColl's Retail Group

3.4

8 Sep

New Century AIM VCT

3.3

8 Sep

Northern Bear Ord 1p

2.5

1 Sep

Northern Bear Ord 1p (special)

1.5

1 Sep

Northgate Ord 5p

11.6

26 Sep

PZ Cussons Ord 10p

5.61

5 Oct

Rentokil Initial Ord 1p

1.14

13 Sep

RM Ord 2p

1.65

8 Sep

RPC Group Ord 5p

17.9

1 Sep

Schroder Real Estate Inv Tst

0.62

31 Aug

St. Modwen Properties Ord 10p

2.02

5 Sep

Triad Group Ord 1p

0.5

7 Sep

Vesuvius

5.5

22 Sep

Virgin Money Holdings (UK)

1.9

22 Sep

Yu Group

1.5

12 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.