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 12 March
Interim: Diurnal
Finals: Clarkson, eve Sleep, Medica, Megafon, Pennant International
Tuesday 13 March
Interims: Close Brothers, Eagle Eye Solutions
Finals: Antofagasta, Applegreen, Bango, Brady, Cairn Energy, Computacenter, Crossrider, Fevertree Drinks, Glenveagh Properties, Goal Soccer Centres, Gresham Technologies, H&T, Midwich, Non-Standard Finance, Restore, Stadium, Surgical Innovations, TP ICAP, XLMedia, Zotefoams
Company paying dividend: Renew (6p)
Wednesday 14 March
Interim: Brooks Macdonald
Finals: Advanced Medical Solutions, Balfour Beatty, Dignity, EKF Diagnostics, EMIS, Empresaria, Futura Medical, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Interquest, Marshall Motor Holdings, Marshalls, Prudential, SafeCharge International, Statpro, William Morrison Supermarkets
Companies paying dividends: Shoe Zone (6.8p)
Thursday 15 March
Interim: Kier
Finals: Cineworld, Curtis Banks, Manx Telecom, Old Mutual, OneSavings Bank, Savills, Spirax-Sarco Engineering
AGMs: Lonmin, Oxford BioDynamics
Companies paying dividends: Rank (2.15p), Springfield Properties (1p)
Friday 16 March
Interim: JD Wetherspoon
Final: Capital Drilling
EGMs: Hogg Robinson, Stanley Gibbons, Trafalgar New Homes
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Private Equity (2p), Avon Rubber (8.21p), Carnival (31.91p), City of London Investment Group (9p), Conviviality (4.5p), CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities EUR (0.1375p), CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities GBP (1.375p), Hargreave Hale VCT 2 (2p), Impax Asset Management (2.2p), Invesco Income Growth Trust (2.35p), Motorpoint (2p), P2P Global Investments (12p), S&U (32p), Sanderson (1.55p), SSE (28.4p), Standard Life Equity Income Trust (4.4p), The PRS REIT (1.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 15 March
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Acorn Income Fund | 4.95 | 29 Mar |
Adept Telecom ord 10p | 4.25 | 9 Apr |
Anglo American ord 54.945c | 38.7 | 11 May |
Crest Nicholson ord 5p | 21.8 | 6 Apr |
Galliford Try ord 50p | 28 | 6 Apr |
Glanbia | 11.43 | 27 Apr |
Globaldata ord 1/14p | 5 | 27 Apr |
Hammerson ord 25p | 14.8 | 26 Apr |
Haynes Publishing ord 20p | 3.5 | 11 Apr |
Law Debenture Corp ord 25p | 11.8 | 19 Apr |
London Finance & Investment 5p | 0.55 | 6 Apr |
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels ord 30p | 4.42 | 11 May |
Mucklow (A&J) ord 25p | 5.09 | 16 Apr |
PCF | 0.19 | 6 Apr |
Regional Reit | 2.45 | 12 Apr |
RM ord 2p | 4.95 | 13 Apr |
SSP | 4.9 | 29 Mar |
Trifast ord 5p | 1.1 | 12 Apr |
XP Power ord 1p | 29 | 20 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.
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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.