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 30 April
Interims: Image Scan Holdings, UP Global Sourcing
Finals: Atlas Mira, Interserve, Randall & Quilter
Trading statement: WPP
AGMs: Forbidden Technologies, Georgia Healthcare, Greencoat UK Wind, Independent Oil & Gas, Minoan, Old Mutual, Symphony International
EGM: Carpetright
Companies paying dividends: Abbey (7.068p), Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment (5.25p), Amedeo Air Four Plus (2.0625p), Doric Nimrod Air One (2.25p), Doric Nimrod Air 2 (4.5p), Doric Nimrod Air 3 (2.0625p), Ediston Property Investment (0.4792p), European Assets Trust (19.28p) F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), F&C Private Equity Trust (3.57p), Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income (1.25p), Lowland Investment (13p), Old Mutual (3.57p), RIT Capital Partners (16.5p), Schroder Income Growth Fund (2.4p), Twentyfour Income Fund (2.73p), Twentyfour Select Monthly Income (0.5p), UK Mortgages (1.5p), Wynnstay (8.4p)
Tuesday 1 May
Interim: Connect Group
Finals: Nasstar, Pelatro
Trading statements: BP, Venator Materials
AGMs: Barclays, EMIS, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, RPS, Winkworth (M)
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Markit UK PMI manufacturing, BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: DS Smith (4.9p), Essentra (14.4p), Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust (2.7p), NWF Group (1p)
Wednesday 2 May
Interims: Avon Rubber, Sage Group
Final: J Sainsbury
Trading statements: Indivior, Inmarsat
AGMs: Glencore, Empresaria, Howden Joinery, Inmarsat, Lancashire Holdings, Ocado, Pendragon, Phoenix Group Holdings, Spirent Communications, Unilever, Verona Pharma, Zegona Communications
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK construction
Thursday 3 May
Trading statements: Concentric, Equiniti, Glencore, Lancashire Holdings, Travelport Worldwide, Trinity Mirror
AGMs: Centaur Media, Dalata Hotels, Dialog Semiconductor, Equiniti, Everyman Media, GKN, GlaxoSmithKline, H&T Group, IMI, James Fisher & Sons, Johnson Service Group, KAZ Minerals, Kerry Group, Lighthouse Group, Moneysupermarket.com, Reckitt Benckiser, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Savannah Petroleum, Trinity Mirror, Unilever
Economics: Official reserves, Markit/CIPS UK services PMI, composite PMI
Companies paying dividends: GVC Holdings (15.6p), Hydro Hotel (Eastbourne) (14p), Schroders Voting (79p), Schroders Non-Voting (79p), Segro (11.35p), Ultra Electronics (35p), Volution (1.46p)
Friday 4 May
Interim: Numis
Final: Havelock Europa
Trading statements: Aon, HSBC, International Consolidated Airlines, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, Smurfit Kappa
AGMs: Capital & Counties Properties, DP Poland, FBD Holdings, Intercontinental Hotels, International Personal Finance, Microsaic Systems, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, Morgan Sindall, Pearson, Rightmove, Smurfit Kappa
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: AFH Financial (4p), British Land (7.52p), CRH (43.1p), EMIS (12.9p), F&C UK High Income Trust A Shares (1.25p), F&C UK High Income Trust B Shares (1.25p), Fisher (James) & Sons (19.3p), Lighthouse Group (0.3p), Meggitt (10.8p), Mithras Investment Trust (4p), Nichols (23.4p), Quartix (4.3p), Quartix (special) (6.8p), Redrow (9p), Spirent (1.73p), Spirent (special) (3.6p), St Ives (0.65p), Synectics (3p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 3 May
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Axiom European Financial Debt Npv | 1.5 | 25 May |
Card Factory | 6.4 | 8 Jun |
Cello Group Ord 10p | 2.45 | 25 May |
Cenkos Securities Ord 1p | 4.5 | 31 May |
Coats Group | 1 | 29 May |
ContourGlobal | 2.6 | 31 May |
Derwent London Ord 5p (special) | 75 | 8 Jun |
Derwent London Ord 5p | 42.4 | 8 Jun |
Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst Ord 25p | 4.375 | 30 May |
Elementis Ord 5p | 4.3463 | 1 Jun |
Empresaria Ord 5p | 1.32 | 31 May |
EP Global Opps Tst Ord 0.1p | 5.3 | 25 May |
G4S Ord 25p | 6.11 | 15 Jun |
Gocompare.com Group | 0.7 | 25 May |
GYG | 3.2 | 15 Jun |
H & T Group Ord 5p | 6.2 | 1 Jun |
Hansteen Holdings Ord 10p | 35 | 11 May |
Harworth Group | 0.575 | 1 Jun |
Hastings Group Hldgs 2p | 8.5 | 31 May |
Henderson Far East Income Trust Ord npv | 5.3 | 31 May |
Henderson International Income Trust | 1.3 | 31 May |
Highcroft Investment Trust Ord 25p | 30 | 1 Jun |
Invesco Perp UK Smaller Co's Inv Ord £1 | 10.15 | 8 Jun |
James Halstead Group Ord 5p | 3.85 | 6 Jun |
Just Group | 2.55 | 25 May |
Kingfisher Ord 15 5/7p | 7.49 | 18 Jun |
London Stock Exchange Ord 6 79/86p | 37.2 | 30 May |
Lookers Ord 25p | 2.48 | 31 May |
McCarthy & Stone | 1.9 | 8 Jun |
Microgen Ord 5p | 4.25 | 25 May |
Morgan Advanced Materials Ord 25p | 7 | 25 May |
Playtech Plc Ord Npv | 21.3 | 1 Jun |
Premier Asset Management Group | 1.65 | 1 Jun |
Rightmove Ord 1p | 36 | 1 Jun |
Safecharge International Group | 6.58 | 23 May |
Senior Ord 10p | 4.9 | 31 May |
Stock Spirits Group € | 5.05 | 25 May |
Strix Group | 1.9 | 1 Jun |
Swallowfield Ord 5p | 2 | 26 May |
Total Produce €0.01 | 2.1142 | 1 Jun |
Tribal Group Ord 5p | 1 | 30 May |
Unilever Ord 3 1/9p | 33.41 | 6 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.
