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 23 March
Interims: Gfinity, Orchard Funding
Finals: Medica, Pennant International, Quixant
AGMs: Dukemount Capital, I-Nexus Global
Company paying dividend: Royal Dutch Shell (39.83p)
Tuesday 24 March
Interims: Essensys, YouGov
Finals: 888, Accesso Technology, AG Barr, Alliance Pharma, Cambridge Cognition, Eve Sleep, Fevertree Drinks, Kingfisher, Learning Technologies, Mears, Nahl, Pelatro, Personal Group, S&U, STM, Xaar, Zotefoams
AGMs: Crest Nicholson, Starvest
Company paying dividend: BHP (50p)
Wednesday 25 March
Interims: Bellway, Ricardo
Finals: Anglo Pacific, Cloudcall, DP Eurasia, Ergomed, Moss Bros, SDL, Spaceandpeople
AGMs: Arden Partners, Beazley, EasyHotel, McCarthy & Stone, Micro Focus
Trading update: Diploma, United Utilities
Thursday 26 March
Finals: Arbuthnot Banking, BigBlu Broadband, Digitalbox, Ebiquity, Hilton Food, Igas Energy, Integrated Diagnostics, Intelligent Ultrasound, International Public Partnerships, Lamprell, Secure Trust Bank, Venture Life
AGM: RM
Company paying dividend: Springfield Properties (1.4p)
Friday 27 March
Finals: Applegreen, Robinson, Uniphar
AGMS: St Modwen Properties
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Diversified Income & Growth Trust (1.36p), Aberdeen Emerging Markets (5.5p), Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust (5.2p), Aberdeen Standard European Logistic (1.27p), BioPharma Credit (2.33p), BP (8.015p), Evraz (31p), Honeycomb Investment Trust (20p), Impax Asset Management (4p), LPA Industries (1.8p), LXI Reit (1.4375p), Mattioli Woods (7.3p), Mobeus Income & Growth (11p), Personal Group (5.9p), Pollen Street Secured Lending (12p), RM Secured Direct Lending (1.625p), RM Secured Direct Lending (0.75p), SQN Secured Income (0.583p), SSP (6p), Tritax EuroBox (0.932p), UIL (2p), Utilico Emerging Markets (1.925p), Van Elle (0.2p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 26 March
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| British American Tobacco Ord 25p | 52.6 | 13 May 20 |
| Brooks Macdonald Ord 1p | 20 | 24 Apr 20 |
| Croma Security Solutions Group | 0.75 | 08 Apr 20 |
| Devro Ord 10p | 6.3 | 07 May 20 |
| Duke Royalty | 0.75 | 14 Apr 20 |
| Globaldata Ord 1/14p | 10 | 26 Apr 20 |
| Go-Ahead Group Ord 10p | 30.17 | 17 Apr 20 |
| Kingspan Group Ord € | 27.91 | 01 May 20 |
| Origin Enterprises €0.01 | 3.15 | 14 Apr 20 |
| Pearson Ord 25p | 13.5 | 07 May 20 |
| Prudential Ord 5p | 20.94 | 15 May 20 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland Ord 25p | 3 | 04 May 20 |
| Royal Bank of Scotland Ord 25p | 5 | 04 May 20 |
| Schroder European REIT | 1.5899 | 14 Apr 20 |
| Schroders Vtg £1 | 79 | 07 May 20 |
| Securities Trust of Scotland Ord 25p | 1.45 | 12 Apr 20 |
| TR European Growth Trust Ord 12.5p | 7.8 | 17 Apr 20 |
| Tristel Ord 1p | 2.34 | 30 Apr 20 |
| Wynnstay Group Ord 25p | 9.4 | 30 Apr 20 |
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.
