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 14 May
Interims: Cerillion, Diploma, Hardide, Victrex
Final: Angling Direct
Trading statements: Centrica, Dignity
AGMs: Centrica, City Pub, Integrated Diagnostics, Midwich, Non-Standard Finance, SafeCharge
Companies paying dividends: GKN (6.2p), Savills (10.45p), Savills (special) 15.1p
Tuesday 15 May
Interims: CYBG, easyJet, EI, Elegant Hotels, ITE, Patisserie, Ten Lifestyle
Finals: Animalcare, Braemar Shipping Services, BTG, DCC, Gear4Music Holdings, Land Securities, Vodafone
Trading statements: Hargreaves Lansdown, Jackpotjoy
AGMs: Anglo Pacific, Cairn Energy, Cenkos Securities, Charles Taylor, Eland Oil & Gas, G4S, Horizonte Minerals, Macfarlane, Pittards, PPHE Hotel, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Symphony Environmental Technologies, UBM, Vitec
EGM: Starwood European Real Estate
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Companies paying dividends: Ebiquity (0.71p), Franchise Brands (0.33p), John Laing Infrastructure Fund (3.57p), JPM American Investment Trust (3.25p), Moneysupermarket.com (7.6p), Sanne (8.4p)
Wednesday 16 May
Interims: Brewin Dolphin, Marston’s, Mitchells & Butlers, SSP
Finals: Burberry, C&C, Speedy Hire
Trading statements: Mondi, National Express, Premier Oil
AGMs: Charter Court Financial Services, Chesnara, Cineworld, Coats, Cronin, Indivior, Jupiter Fund Management, Merchants Trust, Mondi, Mortgage Advice Bureau, Moss Bros, National Express, Ophir Energy, Premier Oil, Princess Private Equity, Property Franchise, Secure Trust Bank, Tritax Big Box, Worldpay, Zotefoams
Companies paying dividends: Capital & Regional Properties (1.91p), Jardine Matheson US$0.25 (Singapore) (120p), Matheson US$0.05 (Singapore) (22.5p), OneSavings Bank (9.3p), Rentokil Initial (2.74p), Schroder Asian Trust Investment (4.8p), Virgin Money (4.1p)
Thursday 17 May
Interims: Countryside Properties, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Future, Grainger, Thomas Cook
Finals: 3i, British Land, Experian, Investec, Mothercare, National Grid, Royal Mail, Sophos, Venn Life Sciences, Wincanton
Trading statements: Just Group, Regional REIT, TBC Bank
AGMs: Churchill China, Elecosoft, Erris Resources, Eserveglobal, esure, Fevertree Drinks, Foxtons, Genel Energy, Gresham House, Highcroft Investments, Hill & Smith Holdings, Hiscox, Impax Environmental Markets, Indigo Vision, Just Group, Kape Technologies, Legal & General, Lidco, MedaPhor, Next, North Midland Construction, Portmeirion Group, Prophotonix, Prudential, PV Crystalox, Quarto Group, Regional REIT, Robert Walters, SDX Energy, Staffline, TI Fluid Systems, Vectura
Companies paying dividends: Aviva (19p), Convatec (3.09p), Direct Line (13.6p), Direct Line (special) (15p), Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust (5.5p), Equiniti (2.73p), Hansteen (3.8p), Intu Properties (9.4p), Merlin Entertainment (5p), Standard Chartered (7.91p), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (1.625p), TP ICAP (11.25p), Wood (John) (16.57p)
Friday 18 May
Interim: LightwaveRF
Trading statements: AstraZeneca, Hikma Pharmaceuticals
AGMs: AstraZeneca, Computacenter, Derwent London, Eurocell, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Hunters Property, Independent News & Media, John Menzies, Paddy Power Betfair, Petrofac, Real Estate Investors, Rockhopper Exploration, S&U, SDX Energy, T Clarke
EGM: SDX Energy
Companies paying dividends: AB Dynamics (1.465p), Arbuthnot Banking (19p), Barratt Developments (8.6p), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (1.8p), British Smaller Companies VCT (4p), Capital Drilling (1.2p), City Merchants High Yield Trust (2.5p), Communisis (1.77p), Costain (9.25p), Curtis Banks (4.75p), Fenner (2.1p), Fidelity European Values (4.35p), Greggs (22p), IMI (25.2p), Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equity (2.1p), Invesco Perpetual Select Global Equity (2.35p), John Laing (3.51p), John Laing (special) (3.66p), Kerry (39.19p), Kier (23p), Man (4.18p), Murray International Trust (17p), Octopus Second Aim VCT (2.1p), PPHE Hotel (13p) Prudential (32.5p), Quixant (2.6p), Randgold Resources (140p), RPS (5.08p), RSA Insurance (13p), STV (12p), Taylor Wimpey (2.44p), TT Electronics (4.05p), Tyman (7.75p), Unite (15.4p), Vitec (20.1p), Wetherspoon (JD) (4p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 17 May
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Anglo Pacific ord 10p | 2.5 | 31 May |
Ascential | 3.8 | 15 Jun |
Clarkson ord 25p | 50 | 1 Jun |
Dignity ord 9p | 15.74 | 29 Jun |
Fidelity Special Values ord 5p | 1.85 | 19 Jun |
Inchcape ord 25p | 18.9 | 22 Jun |
Integrated Diagnostics ord US$ | 16 | 8 Jun |
Intertek ord 1p | 47.8 | 6 Jun |
Irish Continental UTS (Comp 1 ord) | 8.15 | 8 Jun |
K3 Business Tech ord 25p | 1.4 | 15 Jun |
Macfarlane ord 25p | 1.5 | 7 Jun |
MedicX Fund NPV | 1.51 | 29 Jun |
Non-Standard Finance | 1.7 | 15 Jun |
PageGroup | 8.6 | 18 Jun |
Randall & Quilter Inv ord 2p | 5.4 | 18 Jun |
Robinson ord 0.5p | 3 | 1 Jun |
Saga ord 1p | 6 | 29 Jun |
Summitt Germany ord NPV | 0.89 | 21 Jun |
Tandem ord 4p | 2.75 | 4 Jul |
Ted Baker ord 5p | 43.5 | 22 Jun |
Tesco ord 5p | 2 | 22 Jun |
UK Commercial Property ord 25p | 0.92 | 31 May |
Witan Investment Co ord 25p | 5.25 | 18 Jun |
Witan Pacific IT ord 25p | 3.25 | 18 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.
