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 5 February
Trading statements: Electrocomponents, International Consolidated Airlines
AGMs: Cerillion, Future
Economics: Official reserves, Markit/CIPS UK services, composite PMI
Companies paying dividends: Britvic (19.3p), BT (4.85p), Dart (1.5p), ITE (2.5p), UDG Healthcare (8.6p)
Tuesday 6 February
Interims: Frontier Developments, Hargreaves Lansdown, Mattioli Woods
Finals: Amino Technologies, BP, Ocado, St Modwen Properties
Trading statement: Babcock International
AGMs: John Lewis of Hungerford, Numis
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales, New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: Johnson Matthey (21.75p), JPM Asian Investment Trust (4p), Mitchells & Butlers (5p), Schroder Asia Pacific Fund (5.6p)
Wednesday 7 February
Interim: Redrow
Finals: GlaxoSmithKline, Rio Tinto, Tullow Oil
Trading statement: Severn Trent
AGMs: Daily Mail & General Trust, Grainger, Imperial Brands, Nektan
Economics: Halifax house prices
Companies paying dividends: Ashtead (5.5p), Brewin Dolphin (10.75p), Cerillion (2.8p), Halma (5.71p), Henderson Alternative Strategy Trust (4.75p), JPM Chinese Investment Trust (1.6p), K3 Capital (2.85p)
Thursday 8 February
Interim: Ashmore
Finals: Beazley, Smith & Nephew
Trading statements: AA, Bellway, Ei, Tate & Lyle, Thomas Cook
AGMs: Compass, Dewhurst, easyJet, Ei, On the Beach, Premier Asset Management, Thomas Cook, Urban & Civic
Economics: RICS house prices, Bank of England interest rate announcement, asset purchase and corporate bond targets
Companies paying dividends: British American Tobacco (43.6p), Xafinity (2.1p), ZPG (3.8p)
Friday 9 February
AGMs: Shaftesbury, Victrex
Economics: Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, Trade figures, NIESR GDP estimate (Jan)
Companies paying dividends: Alcentra European Floating Rate (1.12p), Bisichi Mining (1p), BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (3.25p), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (1.8p), British Land (7.52p), Connect (6.7p), Countryside Properties (5p), Daily Mail & General Trust ‘A’ ord (non-voting) (15.8p), Grainger (3.26p), Micro Focus International (25.63p), NewRiver Reit (5.25p), Numis (6.5p), Patisserie (2.4p), Qinetiq (2.1p), Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund (10p), Scottish Investment Trust (14.5p), Scottish Investment Trust (special) (5p), Servoca (0.4p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 8 February
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Aberforth Split Level Income Trust | 1.4 | 6 Mar |
| Albion Enterprise VCT | 2.5 | 28 Feb |
| Daejan Holdings ord 25p | 35 | 9 Mar |
| Foresight Solar Fund | 1.58 | 23 Feb |
| Henderson International Income Trust | 1.3 | 28 Feb |
| ICG Enterprise Trust | 5 | 2 Mar |
| Impax Asset Management | 2.2 | 16 Mar |
| JPM Russian Securities ord 1p | 6 | 9 Mar |
| Nexus Infrastructure | 4.2 | 9 Mar |
| Picton Property Income | 0.875 | 28 Feb |
| Polar Capital Global Fin Trust | 1.8 | 28 Feb |
| Sage ord 1p | 10.2 | 2 Mar |
| Treatt ord 2p | 3.35 | 22 Mar |
| Van Elle | 1.4 | 7 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.
