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.