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 March
Interim: YouGov
Final: SpaceandPeople
Trading statement: Pennon
AGMs: Blue Star Capital, Centamin, Great Portland Estates
Economics: UK finance loans for housing
Companies paying dividends: Mountview Estates (200p), Personal Group (5.75p), Royal Dutch Shell (33.1p), Stewart & Wight (10p)
Tuesday 27 March
Interims: Earthport, Ferguson, Orchard Funding Group
Finals: Alliance Pharma, AG Barr, Billington, Biome Technologies, Churchill China, Clarke (T), Gulf Marine Services, Moss Bros, S&U, Scisys, STM Grou
Trading statement: United Utilities
AGMs: Amino Technologies, One Media, Quartix
EGM: Secure Income REIT
Company paying dividends: BHP Billiton (39p)
Wednesday 28 March
Interims: DFS Furniture, Inland Homes
Finals: Anglo Pacific, Arbuthnot Banking, Ergomed, Hilton Food, North Midland Construction, Time Out
AGMs: Lakehouse, St Modwen Properties, Yolo Leisure and Technology
Economics: CBI retailing, total distribution – reported sales, GfK consumer confidence
Company paying dividends: Beazley (7.4p)
Thursday 29 March
Interim: Bowleven
Finals: Chesnara, Eddie Stobart Logistics, GAN, Quarto Group
Trading statement: RPC
AGMs: Adept4, Angus Energy, Aukett Swanke, Keras Resources, Stellar Diamonds
EGM: Saffron Energy
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Current account balance, Index of services, GDP (Q4 Final), Total business investment (Q4)
Companies paying dividends: 3i Infrastructure (special) (41.4p), Acorn Income Fund (4.95p), Blackrock Throgmorton Trust (7p), BP (7.15p), Brunner Investment Trust (6p), Concurrent Technologies (1.3p), Crown Place VCT (1p), Edistone Property Investment (0.4792p), F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust (2.45p), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), F&C UK Real Estate Investments (1.25p), Greencoat Renewables (2.61p), Henderson Diversified Income Trust (1.1p), HICL Infrastructure (1.96p), Honeycomb Investment Trust (20p), Imperial Brands (59.51p), JPMorgan Global Convertibles Income (1.125p), LPA Industries (1.65p), LXI REIT (1p), MedicX Fund (1.51p), Murray Income Trust (8p), NextEnergy Solar Fund (1.605p), Perpetual Income & Growth Investment Trust (3.15p), Persimmon (125p), Premier Energy & Water (4.3p), Redde (5.5p), Shepherd Neame (5.75p), SSP (4.9p), Standard Life Investment Property Income Trust (1.19p), Summit Germany (0.89p), Temple Bar Investment Trust (17.48p), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (1.6p), Tritax Big Box REIT (1.6p), Volta Finance (0.15p), Witan Investment Co (6.75p)
Friday 30 March
UK Bank holiday – nothing scheduled
Companies going ex-dividend on 29 March
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
4imprint Group Ord 38 6/13p | 28.78 | 11 May |
4imprint Group Ord 38 6/13p (Special) | 43.17 | 11 May |
Aberdeen Emerging Mtks Inc Co | 5.25 | 30 Apr |
Bovis Homes Group Ord 50p | 32.5 | 25 May |
British Land Company Ord 25p | 7.52 | 4 May |
CLS Holdings Ord 2.5p | 4.3 | 27 Apr |
Craneware Ord 1p | 10 | 20 Apr |
Devro Ord 10p | 6.1 | 11 May |
Duke Royalty | 0.6 | 12 Apr |
EMIS Group Ord 1p | 12.9 | 4 May |
Foreign & Colonial Inv Tst Ord 25p | 2.7 | 1 May |
HgCapital Trust Ord 25p | 30 | 27 Apr |
Idox Ord 1p | 0.65 | 20 Apr |
Intercontinental Hotels Grp. 11 3/7p | 50.45 | 11 May |
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Ord 5p | 21.8 | 8 May |
Schroders Non-Vtg £1 | 79 | 3 May |
Securities Trust of Scotland Ord 25p | 1.45 | 20 Apr |
Somero Enterprises Inc Com Stk US$0.001 | 9 | 20 Apr |
Somero Enterprises Inc Com Stk US$0.001 (Special) | 2.58 | 20 Apr |
Standard Life Private Equity Trust | 3.1 | 27 Apr |
Synectics | 3 | 4 May |
Value & Income Trust Ord 10p | 2.7 | 27 Apr |
Wynnstay Group Ord 25p | 8.4 | 30 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.
