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Week Ahead

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
September 4, 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 11 September

 

Interims: Cloudcall, Crossrider, Deltex Medical, EKF Diagnostics, Luceco, Penant International, Restore, XLMedia

 

Finals: 1pm, Abcam, K3 Capital

 

Trading statement: Associated British Foods

 

AGMs: CH Bailey, Empyrean Energy, PHSC, Real Estate Credit Investments

 

EGMs: Big Sofa Technologies, MBL Group

 

Companies paying dividends: AstraZeneca (68.9p)

 

 

 

Tuesday 12 September

 

Interims: Applegreen, Empiric Student Property, Flowtech Fluidpower, Futura Medical, Goals Soccer Centres, Hilton Food Group, Hydrogen Group, JD Sports, Manx Telecom, Midwich Group, Petropavlovsk, SafeCharge International, Servelec, Smart Metering Systems, STM Group, Tasty, TP Group, TyraTech

 

Finals: Innovaderma, Murgitroyd Group, Vernalis

 

Trading statement: Ashtead

 

AGMs: AEW UK REIT, Ashtead, Bushveld Minerals, Daejan Holdings, Emmerson, Limitless Earth, Liontrust Asset Management, Mulberry, Oxford Instruments, SuperGroup, Van Elle Holdings

 

Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index

 

Companies paying dividends: Yu Group (1.5p)

 

 

 

Wednesday 13 September

 

Interims: Advanced Medical Solutions, Alliance Pharma, Columbus Energy Resources, Epwin, Eve Sleep, Gaming Realms, Ingenta, Just Group, MyCelx Technologies, Soco International, SQS Software Quality Systems, Surgical Innovations, Ten Entertainment Group

 

Finals: Dunelm, Galliford Try, Haynes Publishing, Town Centre Securities, Wilmington

 

AGMs: Argo, Games Workshop, Hardy Oil & Gas, Intercede Group, Tricorn, Versarien

 

Economics: Employment data, Average earnings

 

Companies paying dividends: Cohort (4.9p), G4S (3.59p), Hiscox (9.5p), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (9p), Rentokil Initial (1.14p)

 

 

 

 

Thursday 14 September

 

Interims: Corero Network Security, Gresham House, GVC Holdings, Next, Ophir Energy, Property Franchise Group, Regional REIT, Spire Healthcare, William Morrison Supermarkets

 

Final: Ricardo

 

AGMs: Abzena, Arian Silver, Colefax, Columbus Energy Resources, Falcon Oil & Gas, Xafinity

 

EGM: Colefax

 

Economics: RICS house prices, Retail sales, Bank of England interest rate announcement, asset purchase target, corporate bond target

 

Companies paying dividends: 4imprint Group (13.8p), Quartix Holdings (2.4p)

 

 

Friday 15 September

 

Final: JD Wetherspoon

 

AGMs: Blenheim Natural Resources, Netalogue Technologies, Tungsten Corp

 

Companies paying dividends: Apax Global Alpha (4.24p), Ashtead Group (22.75p), Berkeley Group (51.76p), Carnival (31.25p), Chemring (1p), Greene King (24.4p), Hazel Renewable Energy VCT1 (5p), Hazel Renewable Energy VCT2 (5p), IMI (14.2p), Informa (6.65p), Lazard World Trust Fund (5.1p), Maven Income & Growth VCT2 (3.41p), Maven Income & Growth VCT5 (2p), North Midland Construction (3p), Pearson (5p), Securities Trust of Scotland (1.45p), Severfield (1.6p), Synectis (1p), Walker Crips (1.29p)

 

 

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 14 September

 

Company

Dividend(p)

Payment

Aberdeen Diversified Income & Growth Trust

1.631

9 Oct

Assura Plc Ord 10p

0.6

18 Oct

BBA Aviation Ord 29 16/21p

2.93

3 Nov

BCA Marketplace

4.55

29 Sep

Carr's  Group Ord 2.5p

0.95

6 Oct

Centaur Media  Ord 10p

1.5

5 Oct

Communisis Ord 25p

0.89

13 Oct

Computacenter Ord 6p

7.4

13 Oct

Costain Ord 50p

4.75

20 Oct

Derwent London Ord 5p

17.33

20 Oct

Eco Animal Health Ord 5p

4.6

6 Oct

Equiniti Group

1.75

26 Oct

Foresight Technology VCT

4

29 Sep

Gocompare.com Group

0.7

6 Oct

Highcroft Investment Trust Ord 25p

16.25

13 Oct

Holders Technology Ord 10p

0.25

10 Oct

Inmarsat Ord €0.0005

16.6

20 Oct

Jupiter Green Investment Trust

1.2

6 Oct

Naspers

4.77

28 Sep

Octopus Second AIM VCT

2.1

29 Sep

Restaurant  Group Ord 25p

6.8

12 Oct

RPS Group Ord 3p

4.8

13 Oct

Sophos Group

2.55

13 Oct

Tex Holdings Ord 10p

2.5

6 oct

Total Produce €0.01

0.8906

13 Oct

Trifast Ord 5p

2.5

13 Oct

XP Power Ord 1p

16

12 Oct

Zotefoams Ord 5p

1.91

12 Oct

 

 

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.