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 23 April
Interim: Lok’nStore
Final: Midatech Pharma
AGMs: Bioquell, Gotech, Silence Therapeutics
EGM: Defenx
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Companies paying dividends: Sky (13.06p), Smiths (13.8p)
Tuesday 24 April
Interims: AB Dynamics, Proactis
Finas: Circassia Pharmaceuticals, CityFibre Infrastructure, Inspiration Healthcare, Osirium Technologies, Proteome Sciences, Sportech, Sumo
Trading statements: Anglo American, St James’s Place
AGMs: AFC Energy, Alfa Financial Software, Biome Technologies, ECR Minerals, Frontier Smart Technologies, Hammerson, London Stock Exchange, Metrobank, Scotgems, SpaceandPeople, Tern, Tribal
EGM: GlobalData
Economics: Public sector borrowing, CBI trends – selling prices, total orders
Companies paying dividends: Brooks Macdonald (17p), Domino’s Pizza (5.25p), Shire (21.46p)
Wednesday 25 April
Interims: Fenner, Proactis, RDI Reit
Finals: boohoo.com, Keystone Law, Warpaint London, Whitbread
Trading statements: Antofagasta, Glanbia, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds Banking
AGMs: AIB, British American Tobacco, CLS, Countrywide, Croda International, Devro, Drax, Franchise Brands, Glanbia, Intu Properties, Modern Water, Nichols, Persimmon, Personal Group, Polymetal International, Sterling Energy, Tullow Oil
EGMs: Avanti Communications, Rank
Companies paying dividends: Close Brothers (21p), Shore Capital (5p)
Thursday 26 April
Finals: Air Partner, Brown (N), Capita, Morses Club, U+I
Trading statements: Barclays, Hastings, Kaz Minerals, Royal Dutch Shell
AGMs: Admiral, Aggreko, Alliance Trust, AssetCo, Cobham, CRH, Elementis, FDM, Greencoat Renewables, Impact Healthcare Reit, Just Eat, LSL Property Services, Meggitt, Mincon, Schroders, SDL, SThree, STV, Synectics, Synthomer, Taylor Wimpey, Ubisense, Weir
EGMs: Corero Network Security, Fidessa
Economics: Finance loans for housing, CBI reported sales – retailing, total distribution
Companies paying dividends: Hammerson (14.8p), Oakley Capital Investments (2.25p)
Friday 27 April
Finals: Harvey Nash, REA
Trading statements: Computacenter, Rotork, Royal Bank of Scotland
AGMs: Kellan, Laird, Merlin Entertainments, Rotork, Travis Perkins, Senior, Ultra Electronics
EGMs: Fidessa, Flow, Interserve
Economics: GfK consumer confidence, Index of services, GDP (Q1)
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.8p), Amino Technologies (5.125p), CLS (4.3p), Ferguson (36.67p), Finsbury Food (1.1p), Glanbia (11.43p), GlobalData (5p), Henderson Eurotrust (8p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.375p), HgCapital Trust (30p), Kingspan (23.4p), Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust (1.5p), Marwyn Value Investors (2.064p), Octopus Titan VCT (3p), Real Estate Investors (0.875p), Shires Income (3p), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (3.1p), Tracsis (0.7p), Value & Income Trust (2.7p), Vinacapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (3.92p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 26 April
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Aberdeen Asian Income Fund NPV | 2.25 | 25 May |
| Antofagasta ord 5p | 29.12 | 25 May |
| Arbuthnot Banking Gp ord 1p | 19 | 18 May |
| Bankers Investment Trust ord 25p | 4.86 | 31 May |
| Blackrock Latin American IT | 5.035 | 6 Jun |
| Boot (Henry) & Sons ord 10p | 5.2 | 30 May |
| Capital Drilling | 1.2 | 18 May |
| Central Asia Metals | 10 | 25 May |
| Charles Taylor | 7.7 | 25 May |
| Churchill China ord 10p | 17.2 | 24 May |
| City of London Inv Tst ord 25p | 4.33 | 31 May |
| Clarke (T.) ord 10p | 2.9 | 25 May |
| Curtis Banks | 4.75 | 18 May |
| Custodian Reit | 1.6125 | 31 May |
| Dunedin Enterprise Inv Tst ord 25p | 5.5 | 17 May |
| Eurocell ord 0.001p | 6 | 23 May |
| Foxtons | 0.27 | 25 May |
| Franchise Brands | 0.33 | 15 May |
| Fresnillo ord $0.50 | 21.43 | 16 Apr |
| Glencore | 10 | 23 May |
| Harwood Wealth Management | 2.24 | 11 May |
| Hunters Property | 1.5 | 23 May |
| Impax Env Mkts ord 10p | 2.5 | 24 May |
| International Public Prtnshps | 3.41 | 15 Jun |
| IWG | 3.95 | 25 May |
| Legal & General ord 2.5p | 11.05 | 7 Jun |
| Man | 4.18 | 18 May |
| Marshall Motor | 4.25 | 25 May |
| McBride ord 10p | 1.5 | 1 Jun |
| Mobeus Income & Growth VCT | 3 | 17 May |
| Morgan Sindall | 29 | 21 May |
| Mortgage Advice Bureau | 11.9 | 22 May |
| Nahl | 10.6 | 31 May |
| National Express ord 5p | 9.25 | 21 May |
| Petrofac ord $ 0.025 | 18.23 | 25 May |
| Portmeirion ord 5p | 27.26 | 30 May |
| Porvair ord 2p (new Co ) | 2.7 | 1 Jun |
| RELX | 27.7 | 22 May |
| Rolls-Royce ord 20p | 7.1 | 2 Jul |
| Secure Trust Bank | 61 | 25 May |
| Smart Metering Systems | 3.46 | 31 May |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering ord 25p | 62 | 25 May |
| Statpro ord 1p | 2.05 | 30 May |
| SThree ord 1p | 9.3 | 8 Jun |
| TI Automotive 'A' uq | 1.31 | 1 Jun |
| TT Electronics ord 25p | 4.05 | 18 May |
| Weir ord 2.5p | 29 | 4 Jun |
| Wetherspoon (JD) ord 2p | 4 | 18 May |
| William Hill ord 10p | 8.94 | 7 Jun |
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.
