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 6 November
Interim: Grafenia
Trading statement: Belmond
EGMs: Hilton Food Group, Impact Healthcare REIT
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: CPL Resources (5.28p), Elecosoft (0.2p), Huntsworth (0.55p), Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets (1.66p), Safestyle (3.75p), Schroder Japan Growth (3.5p), Synthomer (3.7p), WPP (22.7p)
Tuesday 7 November
Interim: First Derivatives
Finals: Associated British Foods, Imperial Brands, Up Global Sourcing
Trading statements: Dialog Semiconductor, Direct Line, Hiscox, International Consolidated Airlines, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Tyman
AGMs: Papillon Holdings, Plutus Powergen
EGM: Cloudcall
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales (year-on-year to October), Halifax house prices
Companies paying dividends: JPM Asian Investment Trust (3.8p), Mears Group (3.45p)
Wednesday 8 November
Interims: Marks & Spencer, Sophos, SSE, Wizz Air Holdings, Workspace
Finals: Bowleven, Tracsis
Trading statements: esure, Novae, OneSavings Bank, Persimmon, Tullow Oil
AGMs: Craneware, Haynes Publishing, Innovaderma, Pathfinder Minerals, Ricardo
EGM: Symphony Environmental Technologies
Companies paying dividends: Begbies Traynor (1.6p), Manx Telecom (3.9p), STM Group (0.6p)
Thursday 9 November
Interims: Burberry, Dairy Crest, Halfords, Flybe, National Grid, Prime People, Renewi, J Sainsbury, Wincanton
Final: Gattaca
Trading statements: Aldermore, Arrow Global, AstraZeneca, Beazley, Derwent London, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, IMI, Inmarsat
AGMs: Eagle Eye Solutions, Redrow, Swallowfield, JD Wetherspoon
EGM: Jersey Oil & Gas
Economics: RICS house prices, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Trade figures, NIESR GDP estimate (October)
Companies paying dividends: Cenkos Securities (4.5p), International Public Partnerships (3.41p), Ladbrokes (2p), Murray Income Trust (11.75p), SciSys (0.59p)
Friday 10 November
Interims: Castings, Vedanta Resources, Volex
Trading statement: Zeal Network
AGM: Galliford Try
EGM: Vast Resources
Companies paying dividends: AA (3.6p), Bioventix (31p), British Land (7.52p), Charles Taylor (3.31p), Daejan Holdings (63p), Finsbury Growth & Income Trust (7.4p), Harwood Wealth Management (1p), Hastings Group (4.1p), Kerry Group (17.25p), Kingfisher (3.33p), M&C Saatchi (2.13p), Mid Wynd International Investment Trust (0.38p), Photo-Me International (3.94p), Randall & Quilter (3.5p), Restore (1.67p), Spectris (19p), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (25.5p), TP ICAP (5.6p), Travis Perkins (15.5p), Zegona Communications (3.9p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 9 November
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
British & American Inv Tst Ord Shs £1 | 2.7 | 30 Nov |
Card Factory | 2.9 | 15 Dec |
Clinigen Group | 3.4 | 1 Dec |
Craneware Ord 1p | 11.3 | 7 Dec |
Foresight Solar Fund | 1.58 | 24 Nov |
GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p | 19 | 11 Jan |
Go-Ahead Group Ord 10p | 71.91 | 24 Nov |
Hargreave Hale AIM VCT | 2 | 1 Dec |
JPMorgan Smaller Cos Inv Tst | 23 | 8 Dec |
Manchester & London Inv Tst Ord 25p (special) | 4.24 | 4 Dec |
Manchester & London Inv Tst Ord 25p | 1.76 | 4 Dec |
OPG Power Ventures Ord 0.0147p | 0.72 | 22 Dec |
Panther Securities Ord 25p | 5 | 29 Nov |
RTC Group | 1.2 | 30 Nov |
Strix Group | 1 | 30 Nov |
System1 Group | 1.1 | 8 Dec |
Triple Point Vct 2011 Ord 1p | 3.3 | 24 Nov |
Twentyfour Income Fund | 1.5 | 20 Nov |
UK Commercial Property Ord 25p | 0.92 | 30 Nov |
Whitbread Holdings Ord 76 122/153p | 31.4 | 15 Dec |
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.