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 21 May
Finals: LXI REIT, McKay Securities
AGMs: 4d Pharma, BP, Cloudcall, Mporium, Restore, Rose Petroleum, Secure Income Reit, Tanfield, TBC Bank
EGMs: Gresham House, Springfield Properties
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Companies paying dividends: Carr’s (1.075p), Melrose Industries (2.8p), Morgan Sindall (29p), National Express (9.25p), The Property Franchise (5.4p)
Tuesday 22 May
Interims: Greencore, MedicX Fund, Oxford Biodynamics, Renew, Shaftesbury, Topps Tiles, UDG Healthcare, Watkin Jones
Finals: 1Spatial, Big Yellow, Bloomsbury Publishing, Cranswick, Entertainment One, First Derivatives, Halfords, Homeserve, Intermediate Capital, NEX Group, Pets at Home, Scapa, Schroder Reit, Warehouse Reit
AGMs: Accesso Technology, Arrow Global, Attraqt, Avesoro Resources, Burford Capital, Concurrent Technologies, Epwin, Forterra, Get Busy, Gocompare.com, Gulf Marine Services, Marshall Motor, Mi-Pay, Riverstone Energy, Stocks Spirits
Economics: Public sector borrowing, CBI trends – total orders, selling prices
Companies paying dividends: Aggreko (17.74p), Mortgage Advise Bureau (11.9p), Relx (27.7p)
Wednesday 23 May
Interims: Britvic, easyHotel, Hollywood Bowl, IXICO, Sanderson, Stride Gaming, ZPG
Finals: Assura, Babcock International, Dairy Crest, Great Portland Estates, HICL Infrastructure, Marks and Spencer, OptiBiotix Health, Severn Trent
AGMs: Access Intelligence, Allied Minds, Antofagasta, Bakkavor, Boku, Bovis Homes, Cabot Energy, Central Asia Minerals, Gamma Communications, Golden Prospect Precious Metals, Hilton Food, ICG-Longbow Senior Secured, Keller, Medica, MTI Wireless Edge, N4 Pharma, NAHL, Norish, Polypipe, Restaurant Group, Satellite Solutions Worldwide, Smart Metering Systems, Stilo International, St James’s Place, STM, Venture Life, Xeros Technology, XL Media
EGMs: MTI Wireless Edge, Restaurant Group
Economics: Consumer prices index, Retail prices index, Producer prices, House prices index, CBI reported sales – retailing, total distribution
Companies paying dividends: Airea (5p), Capital & Counties Properties (1p), Chesnara (13.07p), Eurocell (6p), Glencore (10p), Hunters Property (1.5p), Pendragon (0.8p), Polymetal International (30p), Safecharge International (6.58p)
Thursday 24 May
Interims: Daily Mail & General Trust, Paragon Banking, Shoe Zone
Finals: Electrocomponents, Helical, Mediclinic. NewRiver Reit, PayPoint, QinetiQ, Renewi, TalkTalk Telecom, Tate & Lyle, United Utilities, Wizz Air, Young & Co’s Brewery
Trading statements: Go-Ahead, Inchcape, Intertek, Kingfisher
AGMs: Alliance Pharma, Arena Events, Balfour Beatty, Cambridge Cognition, EnQuest, Escape Hunt, Eve Sleep, Hastings, Headlam, Henry Boot, Huntsworth, Ibstock, Inchcape, Ingenta, Intertek, Jersey Oil & Gas, Learning Technologies, Lloyds Banking, Manx Financial, Parity, Sabre Insurance, Sound Energy, Spire Healthcare, Sportech, Statpro, Strix, Tissue Regenix, Yu
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Churchill China (17.2p), Gresham Technologies (0.5p), Hikma Pharmaceutical (16p), Impax Environmental Markets (2.5p), ITV (5.28p), M Winkworth (1.85p), Reckitt Benckiser (97.7p), UBM (18p), Zotefoams (4.02p)
Friday 25 May
Finals: Pennon, SSE, Volvere
Trading statement: Spectris
AGMs: ContourGlobal, Ferrexpo, Hochschild Mining, Hydrogen, Informa, Keywords Studios, Lookers, Spectris
Economics: UK finance loans for housing, Index of services, GDP (Q1 provisional)
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.25p), Antofagasta (29.12p), APQ Global (1.5p), Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), BBA Aviation (8.44p), Bovis Homes (32.5p), Cello (2.45p), Centaur Media (1.5p), Central Asia Metals (10p), Charles Taylor (7.7p), City Natural Resources High Yield (0.86p), Clarke (T) (2.9p), Drum Income Plus Reit (1.5p), EP Global Opportunities Trust (5.3p), Esure (9.4p), Fevertree Drinks (7.64p), Foxtons (0.27p), Gocompare.com (0.7p), Inmarsat (10.71p), Investment Company (5p), IWG (3.95p), Juridica (4p), Just (2.55p), Marshall Motor (4.25p), Microgen (4.25p), Morgan Advanced Materials (7p), NB Global Floating Rate Income (0.8p), NewRiver Reit (5.25p), Petrofac (18.23p), Polypipe (7.5p), Primary Health Properties (1.35p), Secure Income Reit (2.5092p), Secure Trust Bank (61p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure (1.5p), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (62p), Stock Spirits (5.05p), Vesuvius (12.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 24 May
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Advanced Medical Solutions ord 10p | 0.75 | 15 Jun |
Avingtrans ord 5p | 1.3 | 15 Jun |
Bellway ord 12.5p | 48 | 2 Jul |
British & American Inv Tst ord Shs £1 | 5.9 | 28 Jun |
Bunzl ord 32 1/7p | 32 | 2 Jul |
FDM ord 1p | 14 | 15 Jun |
Filta | 0.65 | 7 Jun |
Gattaca | 3 | 22 Jun |
Hill & Smith ord 25p | 20.6 | 2 Jul |
Howden Joinery | 7.5 | 22 Jun |
Huntsworth ord 10p | 1.45 | 5 Jul |
Imperial Brands | 28.453 | 29 Jun |
Kape Technologies (special) | 3.55 | 13 Jun |
Manx Telecom | 7.5 | 29 Jun |
Menzies (John) ord 25p | 14.5 | 2 Jul |
Midwich | 9.65 | 22 Jun |
Mincon | 0.92 | 22 Jun |
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets ord 10p | 4.43 | 28 Jun |
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets ord 10p | 4 | 28 Jun |
Premier Energy & Water ord 1p | 2 | 29 Jun |
Premier Global Infrastructure Trust | 2 | 29 Jun |
Soco International ord 5p | 5.25 | 15 Jun |
Spectris ord 5p | 37.5 | 29 Jun |
Ten Entertainment | 7 | 5 Jul |
The Gym Group | 0.9 | 14 Jun |
Town Centre Securities ord 25p | 3.25 | 22 Jun |
Venture Life | 0.04 | 22 Jun |
Whitbread ord 76 122/153p | 69.75 | 4 Jul |
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.
