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 18 September
Interims: Concurrent Technologies, Ergomed, Learning Technologies, Medica, MP Evans, Secure Income REIT
Finals: City of London Investment Group, Finsbury Food, Green Reit, Petra Diamonds
Trading statement: Dairy Crest
AGMs: Mercia Technologies, Ormonde Mining
EGMs: Jimmy Choo, Rose Petroleum
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Companies paying dividends: Barclays (1p), GKN (3.1p), Witan Investment Company (4.75p)
Tuesday 19 September
Interims: Anpario, Augean, Bango, Escher, Flowgroup, French Connection, Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Gulf Marine Services, Judges Scientific, Keywords Studios, NAHL, Sinclair Pharma, Yu
Finals: Eagle Eye Solutions, Pure Circle, Swallowfield
Trading statement: Ocado
AGMs: Eco Animal Health, Enteq Upstream, HML, Leeds, Marlowe, Safeland
Companies paying dividends: London Stock Exchange (14.4p), Mondi (17.05p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.6042p)
Wednesday 20 September
Interims: Accesso Technology, Attraqt, Kingfisher, Shield Therapeutics, SiS Science in Sport
Trading statement: Babcock International
AGMs: Diageo, Eckoh, Scholium, United Carpets
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Private Equity (2p), Bloomsbury Publishing (5.6p), Brunner Investment Trust (3.5p), Ramsdens (1.3p)
Thursday 21 September
Interims: Cambridge Cognition, Capita, Elektron Technology, Mission Marketing, Quixant, Safestyle, Venture Life
Final: Brooks Macdonald, Kier, Pan African Resources
AGMs: Accsys Technologies, Auto Trader, Begbies Traynor, Circle Property, First Property, Gloo Networks, IG, NCC, Park, Ryanair, WYG
EGM: NCC
Economics: UK finance loans for housing, Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: Cineworld (6p), Fidessa (15.3p), Hochschild Mining (1.38p), Legal & General (4.3p), Rio Tinto (84.62p), Schroders (34p), Schroders non-vtg (34p), Ultra Electronics (14.6p), Utilico Emerging Markets Utilities (1.7p), VPS Specialty Lending Investments (1.7p)
Friday 22 September
Interim: Saga
Final: Smiths
AGMs: Accrol, Sirius Real Estate
EGM: Zegona Communications
Economics: CBI trends – total orders, selling prices
Companies paying dividends: Anglo American (36.5p), Best Of The Best (1.4p), BP (7.69p), Clarkson (23p), Dixons Carphone (7.75p), FDM (12p), FIH (4p), Henderson Opportunities Trust (6p), Hikma Pharmaceutical (8.5p), Hostelworld (4.68p), Ibstock (2.6p), JPM Brazil Investment Trust (0.8p), Low & Bonar (1.05p), LPA Industries (1.05p), Marshall Motor (2.15p), Miton UK Microchip Trust (0.36p), National Express (4.26p), Paddy Power Betfair (65p), Polypipe (3.6p), Ranger Direct Lending Fund (24.62p), Real Estate Credit Investments (3p), Rotork (2.05p), Scottish American Investment Company (2.725p), Solid State (8p), SSE (63.9p), Stock Spirits (2.16p), SuperGroup (20.2p), UIL (1.875p), Vesuvius (5.5p), Virgin Money (1.9p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 21 September
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Accrol | 4 | 11 Oct |
Adept Telecom ord 10p | 4 | 6 Oct |
Boot (Henry) & Sons ord 10p | 2.8 | 20 Oct |
Bovis Homes ord 50p | 15 | 17 Nov |
Consort Medical ord 10p | 13.21 | 27 Oct |
Crest Nicholson ord 5p | 11.2 | 6 Oct |
Dart ord 5p | 3.897 | 27 Oct |
Dignity ord 9p | 8.64 | 27 Oct |
Drax ord 11 16/29p | 4.9 | 6 Oct |
EMIS ord 1p | 12.9 | 27 Oct |
Forterra | 3.1 | 12 Oct |
Games Workshop ord 5p | 35 | 27 Oct |
Gamma Communications | 2.8 | 19 Oct |
Hargreaves Services 10p | 4.5 | 20 Oct |
Henderson High Income Trust | 2.375 | 27 Oct |
Hunters Property | 0.7 | 20 Oct |
Irish Continental | 3.68 | 6 Oct |
JPM Inc & Cap Trust Ord | 2 | 20 Oct |
Kainos | 4.4 | 20 Oct |
Ladbrokes ord 28 1/3 p | 2 | 9 Nov |
Macfarlane ord 25p | 0.6 | 12 Oct |
Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust | 0.9 | 13 Oct |
Mattoli Woods ord 1p | 9.4 | 27 Oct |
Non-Standard Finance | 0.5 | 18 Oct |
Old Mutual ord 10p | 3.53 | 31 Oct |
Oxford Instruments ord 5p | 9.3 | 19 Oct |
Pembroke VCT | 2 | 26 Oct |
Pendragon ord 5p | 0.75 | 24 Oct |
Petrofac ord $ 0.025 | 9.84 | 20 Oct |
Playtech NPV | 11.1 | 24 Oct |
Rank ord 10p | 5.3 | 31 Oct |
Redrow ord 10p | 11 | 14 Nov |
Renishaw ord 20p | 39.5 | 25 Oct |
Stadium ord 5p | 1 | 20 Oct |
Stewart & Wight ord 5p | 14.5 | 18 Oct |
Taylor Wimpey ord 25p | 2.3 | 3 Nov |
Van Elle | 1.75 | 29 Sep |
Vitec ord 20p | 10.4 | 20 Oct |
Weir ord 2.5p | 15 | 3 Nov |
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.
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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.
