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 7 May
Bank holiday – nothing scheduled
Tuesday 8 May
Interims: Cambria Automobiles, Treatt, Wey Education
Finals: Faron Pharmaceuticals, Horizon Discovery, Vertu Motors
AGMs: Anglo American, Costain, CPP Group, EKF Diagnostics, Global Ports, Maintel Holdings, Miton Group, Randgold Resources, React Group, Savills, ValiRx, William Hill
EGM: FreeAgent Holdings
Economics: Halifax house prices, BRC sales
Companies paying dividends: Caretech (6.6p), Jardine Lloyd Thompson (21.8p), Manchester & London Investment Trust (4p)
Wednesday 9 May
Interims: Compass Group, Imperial Brands, TUI Travel
Trading statements: Awilco Drilling, Belmond, Dialog Semiconductor, Greggs, Janus Henderson
AGMs: Ascential, Capita, Capital & Regional, Cello Group, Ebiquity, Grafton, Greggs, IFG Group, IGas Energy, Marshalls, Patagonia, Provident Financial, Rentokil Initial, Standard Chartered, TEN Entertainment, TomCo Energy, Virgin Money
Economics: RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: British American Tobacco (48.8p), JPM Asian Investment Trust (3.9p), JPM US Smaller Companies Investment Trust (2.5p), Mercantile Investment Trust (21.5p), Smith & Nephew (16.33p), Stadium Group (special) (2.1p)
Thursday 10 May
Interims: On The Beach, Titon Holdings
Finals: BT Group, Stobart Group
Trading statements: Arrow Global, Ayima, Barratt Developments, Hansard Global, Nomad Foods, RSA Insurance, Superdry, TP ICAP, William Morrison
AGMs: Airea, Arbuthnot Banking, Aviva, BAE Systems, Clarkson, Communisis, Condor Gold, ConvaTec, Direct Line Insurance, Gresham Technologies, Irish Continental, ITV, John Laing, Melrose Industries, Michelmersh Brick, OneSavings Bank, Rathbone Brothers, Renewables Infrastructure, Robinson, Savannah Resources, SIG, TP ICAP, Triple Point Social Housing REIT, TT Electronics, Tyman, Unite, Vesuvius
EGMs: Trading Emissions, United Oil & Gas
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, Bank of England base rate announcement, asset purchase target, corporate bond target, inflation report NIESR GDP estimate (April)
Companies paying dividends: Begbies Traynor (0.7p), BlackRock World Mining Trust (6.6p)
Friday 11 May
AGMs: Alpha FX, BBA Aviation, Man Group, Morgan Advanced Materials, RSA Insurance, Wood (John) Group
EGMs: Polemos, Serabi Gold
Companies paying dividends: 4imprint (28.78p), 4imprint (special) (43.17p), 888 Holdings (4.18p), 888 Holdings (special) (3.97p), Alcentra European Floating Rate (1.08p), Amiad Water Systems (2.8p), Anglo American (38.7p), Artemis Aim VCT (special) (8p), Devro (6.1p), Drax (7.4p), F.B.D. Holdings (24p), Global Ports (20.1p), Hansteen Holdings (special) (35p), Harwood Wealth Management (2.24p), Intercontinental Hotels (50.45p), International Personal Finance (7.8p), Johnson Service Group (1.9p), Maintel Holdings (19.1p), Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (4.42p), Miton Group (1.4p), Northamber (0.1p), Pearson (12p), Photo-Me International (3.71p), Science Group (4.4p), Scottish Investment Trust (5p), Smurfit Kappa (57.58p), Travis Perkins (30.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 10 May
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
AA | 1.4 | 11 Jun |
Admiral Group Ord 0.1p | 58 | 1 Jun |
Admiral Group Ord 0.1p | 18.5 | 1 Jun |
Barr (AG) Ord 25p | 11.84 | 8 Jun |
Centaur Media Ord 10p | 1.5 | 25 May |
Centrica Ord 5 5/9p | 8.4 | 28 Jun |
Diversified Gas Oil | 2.47 | 31 May |
Downing Three VCT | 2.5 | 15 Jun |
Downing Planned Exit VCT2 | 2.5 | 15 Jun |
Eddie Stobart Logistics | 4.4 | 7 Jun |
Epwin Group | 4.46 | 4 Jun |
Fidessa Group ORD 10p (special) | 50 | 7 Jun |
Fidessa Group ORD 10p | 29.7 | 7 Jun |
Foresight Solar Fund | 1.58 | 25 May |
GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p | 19 | 12 Jul |
Hiscox Ord 5p | 19.5 | 12 Jun |
Hochschild Mining Ord 25p | 1.395 | 1 Jun |
Hostelworld Group | 10.52 | 14 Jun |
Ibstock Ord 1p | 6.5 | 8 Jun |
Moss Bros Group Ord 5p | 1.97 | 22 Jun |
North American Income Ord 25p | 16 | 8 Jun |
North Midland Construction Ord 10p | 3 | 1 Jun |
Ocean Wilson Holdings Ord 20p | 50.4 | 8 Jun |
Picton Property Income | 0.875 | 31 May |
Polymetal International | 30 | 23 May |
Quixant | 2.6 | 18 May |
Robert Walters Ord 20p | 9.3 | 1 Jun |
Royal Dutch Shell B Ord Euro 0.07 | 33.57 | 18 Jun |
SDL Ord 1p | 6.2 | 8 Jun |
Share Ord 0.5p | 0.4 | 13 Jun |
Trinity Mirror Ord 10p | 3.55 | 8 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.
