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Week Ahead: 15-19 January 2018

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
January 9, 2018

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 15 January

Final: Watkin Jones

Companies paying dividends: discoverIE (2.65p), Ferrexpo (special) (2.45p), Mucklow (A&J) (7.09p)

 

Tuesday 16 January

Interim: NCC

Trading statements: Ashmore, Greggs, Gym, JD Sports Fashion, Rio Tinto

EGM: Plus500

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

Companies paying dividends: Babcock International (6.85p), Lazard World Trust Fund (6.4925p)

 

Wednesday 17 January

Trading statements: Burberry, Diploma

AGM: Diploma

Companies paying dividends: Ventus VCT (4p), Ventus VCT2 (2.5p)

 

Thursday 18 January

Final: Chemring

Trading statements: Associated British Foods, BHP Billiton, Experian, Headlam, Royal Mail, Ten Entertainment, Whitbread, William Hill

AGMs: Avacta, Cardiff Property, Equatorial Palm Oil

Economics: RICS house prices

Companies paying dividends: Circle Property (2.6p), Crystal Amber Fund (2.5p), Hydro Hotel (Eastbourne) (7p), IG Design (2p), Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT (9p), Northamber (0.1p)

 

Friday 19 January

AGM: Character

EGM: Fox Marble

Economics: Retail sales

Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust (1p), Charles Stanley (2.5p), F&C Global Smaller Companies (4.4p), Focusrite (1.95p), Gattaca (17p), Greene King (8.8p), Halfords (6p), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt (1.5p), JPM European Small Companies (1.2p), JPM Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (1p), Morses Club (2.2p), Schroder European Reit (1.32p), Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust (11.5p), Sirius Real Estate (1.39p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.6042p), Stobart (4.5p), United Carpets (0.135p), Vertu Motors (0.55p)

Companies going ex-dividend on 18 January

CompanyDividend (p)Payment
Ashtead ord 10p5.57 Feb
Autins0.816 Feb
Compass ord 10 5/8p22.326 Feb
Consort Medical ord 10p7.4416 Feb
CYBG116 Feb
Dewhurst 'A' Non.Vtg ord 10p 8.514 Feb
Dewhurst ord 10p8.814 Feb
Dunedin Smaller Cos Inv Tst ord 25p4.2416 Feb
Easyhotel0.2215 Feb
Fletcher King ord 10p116 Feb
Ramsdens2.220 Feb
Shaftesbury ord 25p8.116 Feb
SSE ord 50p28.416 Mar

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.