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 2 July
Finals: Mercia Technologies, Plastics Capital, Trakm8
AGMs: Consilium, Kin
Economics: Markit UK PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Alliance Trust (3.3887p), Bellway (48p), Bunzl (32p), City Pub (2.25p), Hill & Smith (20.6p), International Consolidated Air (13.06p), Keystone Law (0.84p), LXI REIT (2p), Menzies (John) (14.5p), Persimmon (110p), Rolls-Royce (7.1p), RTC (2.3p)
Tuesday 3 July
Interims: Harwood Wealth Management, St Modwen Properties
Finals: Cohort, Solid State
Trading statement: Costain
AGMs: Big Sofa Technologies, Prospex Oil & Gas
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK construction
Companies paying dividends: Marstons (2.7p), Staffline (15.7p), TOC Property Backed Lending Trust (1.75p)
Wednesday 4 July
Trading statements: J Sainsbury, Staffline. Topps Tiles
AGMs: Distil, McKay Securities, Mountfield, NewRiver REIT, Obtala, OptiBiotix Health
Economics: BRC shop price index, Official reserves, Markit/CIPS services, composite PMI
Companies paying dividends: Tandem (2.75p), Whitbread (69.75p)
Thursday 5 July
Finals: Purplebricks, Superdry
Trading statements: Associated British Foods, Bovis Homes, Electrocomponents, Empiric Student Property, Persimmon
AGMs: C&C, Great Portland Estates, Pennon, U+I
EGM: BP Marsh & Partners
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: Applegreen (0.72p), Arena Events (0.9p), Cardiff Property (4.4p), Forterra (6.4p), Huntsworth (1.45p), JPM European Investment Trust Income (1.25p), London Security (40p), Mears (8.55p), Restaurant Group (10.6p), Ten Entertainment (7p)
Friday 6 July
AGMs: Stobart Group, Urban Logistics Reit
Economics: Halifax house prices, Unit labour costs
Companies paying dividends: Animalcare (2p), Arrow (8.1p), Associated British Foods (11.7p), Balfour Beatty (2.4p), Billington (11.5p), Christie (1.75p), Cineworld (15.4p), Connect (3.1p), Countryside Properties (4.2p), Elegant Hotels (1.33p), Good Energy (2.3p), Harvey Nash (2.652p), Headlam (17.25p), Helios Underwriting (1.5p), Hydrogen (0.8p), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (3.04p), Judges Scientific (22p), Learning Technologies (0.21p), M&C Saatchi (7.4p), Renew (3.33p), Restore (3.33p), S&U (45p), Shaftesbury (8.3p), SIG (2.5p), Sopheon (2.5p), Stobart Group (4.5p), Synthomer (8.5p), Warehouse Reit (1.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 5 July
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Anglo Pacific ord 10p | 1.625 | 15 Aug |
Aveva ord 3 1/3p | 27 | 3 Aug |
Biffa | 4.53 | 22 Jul |
Bisichi Mining ord 10p (special) | 1 | 27 Jul |
Bisichi Mining ord 10p | 3 | 27 Jul |
Brown (N) ord 10p | 8.56 | 3 Aug |
Caffyns ord 50p | 15 | 3 Aug |
Calculus VCT | 4 | 26 Jul |
Cambian | 0.25 | 31 Jul |
Character ord 5p | 11 | 27 Jul |
Chrysalis VCT | 3 | 3 Aug |
CML Microsystems ord 5p | 5.8 | 6 Aug |
Dairy Crest | 16.3 | 11 Aug |
De La Rue ord 25p | 16.7 | 3 Aug |
Dewhurst 'A' Non.Vtg ord 10p | 3.5 | 21 Aug |
Dewhurst ord 10p | 3.5 | 21 Aug |
Entertainment OnLine ord Can $0.01 | 1.4 | 7 Sep |
Establishment Inv.Trust ord 25p | 4.3 | 27 Jul |
European Inv. Trust ord 25p | 9 | 31 Jul |
F&C Private Equity Trust | 3.57 | 31 Jul |
Foreign & Colonial Inv Tst ord 25p | 2.7 | 1 Aug |
Gresham House 25p | 17.25 | 31 Jul |
Hibernia Reit | 1.16 | 3 Aug |
Homeserve ord 12.5p | 14.4 | 2 Aug |
IG Design | 4 | 7 Sep |
Impellam ord 1p | 13.5 | 9 Aug |
Lowland Investment Co. ord 25p | 13 | 31 Jul |
Mountview Estates ord 5p | 200 | 13 Aug |
Murray International Trust ord 25p | 11.5 | 17 Aug |
NEX | 7.65 | 27 Jul |
Next ord 10p | 105 | 1 Aug |
Palace Capital | 4.75 | 31 Jul |
Paragon Banking | 5.5 | 27 Jul |
Pennon ord 40.7p | 26.62 | 4 Sep |
Schroder European Reit | 1.62 | 20 Jul |
SciSys ord 25p | 1.57 | 27 Jul |
Scottish Inv Tst ord Stk 25p | 5 | 3 Aug |
Shires Income ord 50p | 4 | 27 Jul |
Speedy Hire ord 5p | 1.15 | 10 Aug |
St Mark Homes ord £0.50 | 5.5 | 20 Jul |
Stride Gaming ord 1p | 1.3 | 1 Aug |
TalkTalk | 1.5 | 3 Aug |
Treatt ord 2p | 1.6 | 16 Aug |
UP Global Sourcing | 0.83 | 27 Jul |
Warpaint London | 2.6 | 20 Jul |
Wincanton ord 10p | 6.63 | 3 Aug |
Workspace ord 100p | 18.55 | 3 Aug |
Xpediator | 0.64 | 3 Aug |
Zytronic ord 1p | 7.6 | 20 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.
