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 9 April
Finals: Frenkel Topping, Keywords Studios
AGMs: African Battery Metals, Starcom
Economics: Halifax house prices, BRC like-for-like sales
Companies paying dividends: Adept Telecom (4.25p), Croma Security Solutions (0.6p), Renishaw (14p)
Tuesday 10 April
Interim: Nanoco
Finals: Belvoir Lettings, Boku, Card Factory, Hostelworld, Hydrogen, Lidco, MP Evans, Mission Marketing, Property Franchise, Serica Energy
Trading statement: Robert Walters
AGM: Getech
EGM: Plus500
Companies paying dividends: Hansard Global (1.8p), Joules (0.7p)
Wednesday 11 April
Interims: Asos, McCarthy & Stone
Finals: Epwin, Ergomed, Shield Therapeutics, Tesco
Trading statements: PageGroup, Vedanta Resources
AGMs: Heavitree Brewery, Rio Tinto
EGMs: Aggregated Micro Power, Hansteen
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, NIESR GDP estimate (March), RICS house prices
Company paying dividend: Haynes Publishing (3.5p)
Thursday 12 April
Interim: WH Smith
Finals: Central Asia Metals, Destiny Pharma, Saga
Trading statements: Dunelm, Hays, Man, Quiz
AGMs: McColl’s Retail, Smith & Nephew
Companies paying dividends: Abcam (3.42p), Clinigen (1.76p), Duke Royalty (0.6p), Eco Animal Health (3.2p), GlaxoSmithKline (23p), Hays (1.06p), Regional Reit (2.45p), Revolution Bars (1.65p), Rio Tinto (129.43p), Scottish American Investment (2.825p), Thorpe (FW) (1.4p), Trifast (1.1p), Tristel (1.6p)
Friday 13 April
AGM: Low & Bonar
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock North American (2p), Dunelm (7p), Great Portland Estates (special) (93.65p), Maven Income & Growth VCT (7.45p), Maven Income & Growth VCT 3 (5.7p), Maven Income & Growth VCT 4 (8.9p), Maven Income & Growth VCT 5 (3.7p), Palace Capital (4.75p), RM (4.95p), Schroder European Reit (1.66p), Stobart (4.5p), TR European Growth Trust (5p), Utilico Emerging Markets Utilities (1.8p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 12 April
Name | Pay date | Rate (p) |
Airea | 23/05/18 | 5 |
Alpha FX | 06/05/18 | 3.4 |
Artemis Aim VCT | 11/05/18 | 8 |
BBA Aviation ord 29 16/21p | 25/05/18 | 8.44 |
Begbies Traynor ord 5p | 10/05/18 | 0.7 |
Chesnara ord 5p | 23/05/18 | 13.07 |
Costain ord 50p | 18/05/18 | 9.25 |
Ebiquity ord 25p | 15/05/18 | 0.71 |
Equiniti | 17/05/18 | 2.73 |
Esure ord 0.08333p | 25/05/18 | 9.4 |
Gresham Technologies | 24/05/18 | 0.5 |
Henderson Eurotrust ord 5p | 27/04/18 | 8 |
International Personal Finance ord 10p | 11/05/18 | 7.8 |
ITV ord 10p | 24/05/18 | 5.28 |
Johnson Service od 10p | 11/05/18 | 1.9 |
JPM American IT ord 25p | 15/05/18 | 3.25 |
JPM US Smaller Co Inv Trust | 09/05/18 | 2.5 |
Mercantile Investment Trust | 09/05/18 | 21.5 |
Merlin Entertainment 1p ord | 17/05/18 | 5 |
Oakley Capital Investments ord 1p | 26/04/18 | 2.25 |
Octopus Titan VCT | 27/04/18 | 3 |
Paddy Power Betfair | 29/05/18 | 135 |
PPHE Hotel | 18/05/18 | 13 |
Reckitt Benckiser ord 10 10/19p | 24/05/18 | 97.7 |
Rentokil Initial ord 1p | 16/05/18 | 2.74 |
Savills ord 5p | 14/05/18 | 10.45 |
Savills ord 5p | 14/05/18 | 15.1 |
Scottish Inv Trust ord 25p | 11/05/18 | 5 |
Smurfit Kappa ord €0.001 | 11/05/18 | 57.58 |
STV | 18/05/18 | 12 |
Tracsis | 27/04/18 | 0.7 |
Unite ord 25p | 18/05/18 | 15.4 |
Vesuvius | 25/05/18 | 12.5 |
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.
