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 26 February
Interims: Avation, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Sylvania Platinum, Town Centre Securities
Finals: Ascential, Bunzl, Dialight, Hammerson, Keller, Kosmos Energy, Quartix, RTC, Senior
Trading statement: Associated British Foods
EGM: Renew
Economics: UK finance loans for housing
Companies paying dividends: Compass (22.3p), M Winkworth (1.85p)
Tuesday 27 February
Interims: Clinigen, dotdigital, Swallowfield
Finals: Coats, Croda International, Dalata Hotel, Derwent London, Devro, Dialog Semiconductor, Direct Line Insurance, Drax, Elementis, FBD, Fresnillo, GKN, Greggs, Inchcape, James Fisher, Johnson Service, Jupiter Fund Management, Marketing Group, Meggitt, Morgan Advanced Materials, Persimmon, Provident Financial, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money
AGMs: Formation, Image Scan, John Lewis of Hungerford, LXB Retail Properties, SSP, Velocity Composites
EGMs: LXB Retail Properties, Trinity Mirror
Companies paying dividends: Hollywood Bowl (3.95p), Hollywood Bowl (special) (3.33p), Titon (2.7p), TUI (0.65p)
Wednesday 28 February
Interims: Avingtrans, Genus, Ricardo
Finals: Admiral Group, Bakkavor Group, Dialog Semiconductor, Foxtons, Informa, ITV, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Man Group, Shield Therapeutics, St James’s Place, Tarsus, Taylor Wimpey, Travis Perkins, UBM, Weir Group
AGM: Sage Group
EGMs: Amiad Water Systems, Booker, Tesco
Economics: GfK consumer confidence (Feb), BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: AEW UK Long Lease REIT (0.5p), Albion Enterprise VCT (2.5p), Bankers Investment Trust (4.8p), Chenavari Capital Solutions (1.25p), City Natural Resources High Yield (0.86p), Cohort (2.55p), CQS New City High Yield Fund (0.99p), Diverse Income Trust (0.75p), Ecofin Global Utilities & Infrastructure Trust (1.6p), Edinburgh Investment Trust (5.8p), Ediston Property Investment (0.4792), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), Henderson Far East Income Trust (5.3p), Henderson International Income Trust (1.3p), PHSC (0.5p), Picton Property Income (0.875p), Polar Capital Global Financial Trust (1.8p), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (1p), Watkin Jones (4.4p)
Thursday 1 March
Interims: Haydale Graphene Industries, Redde
Finals: Arrow Global, BBA Aviation, Bovis Homes, Capita, Cobham, Costain, CRH, Grafton, Gresham House, Hastings, Howden Joinery, Hunting, IndigoVision, International Personal Finance, Laird, Merlin Entertainments, National Express, Nichols, Petrofac, Rentokil, Robert Walters, RPS, Schroders, Vesuvius, WPP, XP Power
AGMs: Jersey Electricity, Local Shopping REIT, Shoe Zone
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Markit UK PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: JPM Claverhouse (9.5p)
Friday 2 March
Interim: Revolution Bars
Finals: Essentra, IMI, London Stock Exchange, Mondi, Spire Healthcare,
AGM: Impax Asset Management
Economics: Markit/Cips UK construction
Companies paying dividends: APQ Global (1.5p), CPL Resources (5.6p), EJF (2.5p), ICG Enterprise Trust (5p), IG (9.69p), Merchants Trust (6.2p), Sage (10.2p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 1 March
| Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
| Alumasc ord 12.5p | 2.95 | 6 Apr |
| Arden Partners ord 10p | 1 | 22 Mar |
| Beazley ord 5p | 7.4 | 28 Mar |
| City of London Investment Group | 9 | 16 Mar |
| Colefax ord 10p | 2.4 | 19 Apr |
| easyJet ord 25p | 40.9 | 23 Mar |
| Ideagen ord £0.01 | 0.078 | 20 Mar |
| JPM Euro Inv. Trust Growth | 2 | 6 Apr |
| JPM Euro. Inv Trust Income | 2.5 | 6 Apr |
| Lakehouse | 0.5 | 6 Apr |
| Murray Income Trust ord 25p | 8 | 29 Mar |
| Park ord 2p | 1 | 6 Apr |
| Rio Tinto ord 10p(Reg) | 129.43 | 12 Apr |
| Sanderson ord10p | 1.55 | 16 Mar |
| Witan Investment Co ord 25p | 6.75 | 29 Mar |
| WYG ord 10p | 0.6 | 4 Apr |
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.
