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Week Ahead 6-10 November

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
November 2, 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 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

CompanyDividend(p)Payment
British & American Inv Tst Ord Shs £12.730 Nov
Card Factory2.915 Dec
Clinigen Group3.41 Dec
Craneware Ord 1p11.37 Dec
Foresight Solar Fund1.5824 Nov
GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p1911 Jan
Go-Ahead Group Ord 10p71.9124 Nov
Hargreave Hale AIM VCT21 Dec
JPMorgan Smaller Cos Inv Tst238 Dec
Manchester & London Inv Tst Ord 25p (special)4.244 Dec
Manchester & London Inv Tst Ord 25p1.764 Dec
OPG Power Ventures Ord 0.0147p0.7222 Dec
Panther Securities Ord 25p529 Nov
RTC Group1.230 Nov
Strix Group130 Nov
System1 Group1.18 Dec
Triple Point Vct 2011 Ord 1p3.324 Nov
Twentyfour Income Fund1.520 Nov
UK Commercial Property Ord 25p0.9230 Nov
Whitbread Holdings Ord 76 122/153p31.415 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.

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.