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
UK Bank Holiday – nothing scheduled
Tuesday 29 May
Finals: Kainos, Renold
Trading statement: Frutarom Industries
AGMs: Belvoir Lettings, Diversified Oil & Gas, Eddie Stobart Logistics, GYG, Harworth Group, Oxford Biomedica, Rotala, Standard Life Aberdeen
Companies paying dividends: Coats (1p), Lloyds Banking (2.05p), Paddy Power Betfair (135p)
Wednesday 30 May
Interims: Formation, Nexus Infrastructure, Oxford Metrics
Finals: De La Rue, LondonMetric Property, Telford Homes
Trading statement: TCS
AGMs: AG Barr, Bodycote, Circassia Pharmaceuticals, Crossword Cybersecurity, EU Supply, Frenkel Topping, Fresnillo, Judges Scientific, K3 Business Technology, Proteome Sciences, Royal Bank of Scotland, Safestyle UK
Economics: BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: Boot (Henry) (5.2p), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (4.375p), Focusrite (1p), London Stock Exchange (37.2p), Merchants Trust (6.3p), Portmeirion (27.26p), Standard Life Aberdeen (14.3p), Statpro (2.05p), Stilo International (0.05p), Tribal (1p)
Thursday 31 May
Interim: Urban & Civic
Finals: Air Partner, FirstGroup, Johnson Matthey
AGMs: Brady, Card Factory, Destiny Pharma, e-Therapeutics, Immedia, LB Shell, Northbridge Industrial Services, Porta Communications, Raven Russia, Sirius Minerals, Total Produce, Venator Materials
Economics: GfK consumer confidence, Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply
Companies paying dividends: Albion Development VCT (2p), Anglo Pacific (2.5p), Bankers Investment Trust (4.86p), Belvoir Lettings (3.5p), BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust (1.75p), Cenkos Securities (4.5p), City of London Investment Trust (4.33p), ContourGlobal (2.6p), CQS New City High Yield Fund (0.99p), Croda International (46p), Custodian Reit (1.6125p), Diverse Income Trust (0.8p), Diversified Oil & Gas (2.46p), Ecofin Global Utilities & Infrastructure Trust (1.6p), Edinburgh Investment Trust (5.8p), Ediston Property Investment Company (0.4792p), EJF (2.5p), Elecosoft (0.4p), Empresaria (1.32p), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), Hadrian’s Wall Secured Investment (1.5p), Hansa Trust ‘A’ non-voting (8p), Hastings (8.5p), Henderson Far East Income Trust (5.3p), Henderson International Income Trust (1.3p), Lookers (2.48p), Nahl (10.6p), Picton Property Income (0.875p), Schroder Reit (0.62p), Senior (4.9p), Smart Metering Systems (3.46p), Standard Life Investment Property Income Trust (1.19p), Twentyfour Select Monthly Income (0.5p), UK Commercial Property (0.92p)
Friday 1 June
Final: System1
AGMs: GAN, Pembridge Resources, Zeal Network
Economics: Markit UK PMI – manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Admiral Group (58p), Admiral Group (special) (18.5p), Adnams ‘B’ Ord (150p), BAE Systems (13p), Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing (0.025p), Bodycote (12.1p), Bodycote (special) (25p), Clarkson (50p), Elementis (4.3463p), H&T Group (6.2p), Harworth (0.575p), Highcroft Investment Trust (30p), Hochschild Mining (1.395p), Informa (13.8p), JPM Claverhouse (6p), McBride (1.5p), McColl’s Retail Group (6.9p), North Midland Construction (3p), Playtech (21.3p), Porvair (2.7p), Premier Asset Management Group (1.65p), Rightmove (36p), Robert Walters (9.3p), Robinson (3p), Sage Group (5.65p), Smart (J) Contractors (0.95p), St. James’s Place Capital (27.45p), Strix Group (1.9p), Symphony International Holdings (8.57p), TI Automotive ‘A’ (1.31p), Total Produce (2.1142p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 31 May
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aberdeen Emerg Mkts Co ord £0.01 | 5.25 | 29 Jun |
Aberdeen New Thai Inv Tst ord 25p | 11.1 | 26 Jun |
Albion Technology & General VCT | 2 | 29 Jun |
Arrow Global | 8.1 | 6 Jul |
BlackRock World Mining Trust | 3 | 29 Jun |
Burford Capital | 5.523 | 22 Jun |
Cardiff Property ord 20p | 4.4 | 5 Jul |
City Pub (The) | 2.25 | 2 Jul |
Computacenter ord 6p | 18.7 | 29 Jun |
DFS Furniture | 3.7 | 18 Jun |
Elegant Hotels | 1.33 | 6 Jul |
Ferrexpo ord 10p | 2.35 | 27 Jun |
Frenkel Topping ord 0.5p | 0.9233 | 29 Jun |
Gamma Communications | 5.6 | 21 Jun |
GBGI | 1 | 15 Jun |
Good Energy | 2.3 | 6 Jul |
Grainger ord 5p | 1.754 | 29 Jun |
Headlam ord 5p | 17.25 | 6 Jul |
Henderson European Focus Trust | 9.5 | 29 Jun |
Hilton Food ord 10p | 14 | 29 Jun |
Hydrogen ord 1p | 0.8 | 6 Jul |
Ingenta | 1.5 | 29 Jun |
Keller ord 10p | 24.5 | 22 Jun |
Keywords Studios | 0.98 | 22 Jun |
Medica | 1.1 | 22 Jun |
Michelmersh Brick ord | 1.45 | 30 Jun |
Murray Income Trust ord 25p | 8 | 29 Jun |
National Grid ord 11 17/43p | 30.44 | 15 Aug |
On The Beach | 1.1 | 29 Jun |
Pacific Assets Trust | 2.6 | 4 Jul |
Patisserie | 1.44 | 13 Jul |
Spire Healthcare | 2.5 | 26 Jun |
SSP | 4.8 | 29 Jun |
Staffline ord 10p | 15.7 | 3 Jul |
Standard Life Equity Inc Tst ord 25p | 4.4 | 22 Jun |
STM ord 0.1p | 1.2 | 27 Jun |
Tarsus ord 5p | 7 | 12 Jul |
Taylor Wimpey ord 25p | 10.4 | 13 Jul |
Xaar ord 10p | 6.8 | 29 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.
