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 16 July
Final: WH Ireland
Trading statement: Rio Tinto
AGM: DP Aircraft
EGM: Circassia Pharmaceuticals
Companies paying dividends: Debenhams (0.5p), Mucklow (A&J) (5.09p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.6042p)
Tuesday 17 July
Interims: Arbuthnot Banking, Synectics
Finals: Gateley Holdings, Ideagen, NCC Group
Trading statements: BHP Billiton, City of London Investment Group, Dairy Crest, Galliford Try, Hydrogen Group, SSP Group
AGMs: British Land, Dairy Crest, Firstgroup, Goldstone Resources, N Brown
EGM: Stewart & Wight
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Companies paying dividends: Pets at Home (5p), Thwaites (Daniel) (3.36p)
Wednesday 18 July
Trading statements: Carrs Group, Close Brothers, easyJet, Hochschild Mining, Severn Trent
AGMs: Biffa, Bloomsbury Publishing, BP Marsh & Partners, BTG, Experian, Polarean Imaging, Premier Foods, Ramsdens Holdings, Renold, RPC, Severn Trent, TalkTalk Telecom
EGMs: Management Consulting, Stobart Group
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Assura (0.655), JPM European Smaller Companies (5.5p)
Thursday 19 July
Interims: Moneysupermarket.com, Nichols, Unilever
Final: Sports Direct International
Trading statements: Anglo American, SSE
AGMs: Action Hotels, AO World, Babcock International, Big Yellow Group, Carclo, Custodian REIT, Electrocomponents, Halma, Mothercare, Prime People, Royal Mail, Speedy Hire, SSE
Economics: Retail sales, CBI trends – selling prices, total orders
Companies paying dividends: DCC (82.09p), Templeton Emerging Markets (15p)
Friday 20 July
Interims: Acacia Mining, Beazley
AGMs: Homeserve, Kcom
EGM: Ceres Power
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: 3i Group (22p), Air Partner (3.8p), Best of the Best (special) (4.5p), BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust (1p), Capital Gearing Trust (21p), Experian (22.48p), First Derivatives (17p), Helical (7p), Impax Asset Management (1.1p), Impax Asset Management (special) (2.6p), Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust (0.9p), Northern 2 VCT (3.5p), Northern 3 VCT (3.5p), Octopus Aim VCT (3p), Premier Technical Services Group (0.8p), Proven Growth & Income VCT (2p), Proven VCT (2.5p), Real Estate Credit Investments (3p), RWS Holdings (1.5p), Schroder European REIT (1.62p), Severn Trent (51.92p), St Mark Homes (5.5p), Telford Homes (9p), Tex Holdings (6p), Warpaint London (2.6p), Wynnstay Properties (11p), Zytronic (7.6p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 19 July
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Aquila Sevices Group | 0.55 | 3 Aug |
City Merchants HIgh Yield Trust | 2.5 | 20 Aug |
Cranswick Ord 10p | 38.6 | 7 Sep |
Creighton's Ord 20p | 0.23 | 17 Aug |
Establishment Inv.Trust Ord 25p | 3 | 13 Aug |
GB Group Ord 2.5p | 2.65 | 24 Aug |
Heavitree Brewery 'A' Lim.V Ord 5p | 3.675 | 3 Aug |
Heavitree Brewery Ord 5p | 3.675 | 3 Aug |
Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings Ord 2p | 1.7 | 17 Aug |
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained Trust | 5.25 | 10 Aug |
Polar Capital Global Fin Tst | 2.25 | 31 Aug |
Scapa Group Ord 41 2/3p | 2.4 | 17 Aug |
Shoe Zone Ord 1p | 3.5 | 15 Aug |
U & I Group | 3.5 | 17 Aug |
Unicorn AIM VCT | 3 | 10 Aug |
Vedanta Resources Ord US$0.10 | 30.47 | 22 Aug |
Walker Greenbank Ord 1p | 3.68 | 10 Aug |
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.
