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 23 July
Interims: Ascential, McColl’s Retail Group, SThree
Finals: SRT Marine Systems, Tungsten
Trading statements: JTC, Paragon Banking
AGMs: Active Energy, Castleton Technology, Ethernity Networks
Companies paying dividends: Plus500 (0.58p), Plus500 (special) (0.4568p), The Mission Marketing (1.15p)
Tuesday 24 July
Interims: Centaur Media, Drax, Fevertree Drinks, Gresham Technologies, Hammerson, Huntsworth, Proteome Sciences, Spectris, Unite
Finals: Highlands Natural Resources, IG Group, PZ Cussons
Trading statement: Britvic
AGMs: 1Spatial, BlueRock Diamonds, Chamberlin, Chariot Oil & Gas, Charles Stanley, Eurasia Mining, Halfords, Motorpoint
Companies paying dividends: Coca Cola (40.61p), Edinburgh Investment Trust (9.2p), MS International (6.5p)
Wednesday 25 July
Interims: Burford Capital, Capital & Counties, Croda International, GlaxoSmithKline, Indivior, Informa, International Personal Finance, IP Group, ITV, Pentair, Primary Health Properties, Quartix Holdings, Rathbone Brothers, Staffline, Tullow Oil, Tyman
Finals: Angle, Joules Group
Trading statements: 3i Group, Antofagasta, Brewin Dolphin, Empresaria, Victrex, Vodafone
AGMs: Advanced Oncotherapy, Circle Property, Clear Leisure, Connemara Mining, James Cropper, Mediclinic, Norcros, Palace Capital, Petrel Resources, Polar Capital, QinetiQ, System1, Trifast, ULS Technology, Vertu Motors
Economics: Mortgage approvals, CBI business optimism, industrial trends
Company paying dividends: Electrocomponents (8p)
Thursday 26 July
Interims: Anglo American, AstraZeneca, Berendsen, Bodycote, British American Tobacco, Countrywide, Franchise Brands, GKN, Howden Joinery, Inchcape, Intu Properties, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Lancashire Holdings, Mail.RU Group, Morgan Advanced Materials, National Express, RELX, Royal Dutch Shell, Schroders, Segro, Smith & Nephew, Vesuvius, Virgin Money
Finals: Diageo, Renishaw, Sky
Trading statements: CMC Markets, Compass Group, Daily Mail & General Trust, Intermediate Capital, KAZ Minerals, PayPoint
AGMs: Avocet Mining, Bonmarche Holdings, Caffyns, CMC Markets, De La Rue, DiscoverIE Group, Evgen Pharma, GB Group, Immunodiagnostic Systems, Intermediate Capital, Johnson Matthey, NATS Holdings, Paypoint, Record, Tate & Lyle, Telecom Plus
EGM: Mothercare
Companies paying dividends: Calculus VCT (4p), Fuller Smith & Turner ‘A’ Ord (12p), McKay Securities (7.2p), Triple Point Income VCT (5p), Triple Point Income VCT “c” (5p),
Friday 27 July
Interims: AIB Group, Equiniti, Holders Technology, Hutchison China Meditech, Jupiter Fund Management, Pearson, Reckitt Benckiser, Rightmove
Trading statements: BT Group, Wizz Air Holdings
AGMs: All Star Minerals, Emmerson, Gear4Music, Nature Group, Polemos, PowerHouse Energy, RedT Energy, United Utilities, Vodafone
Economics: Nationwide house prices, CBI distributive trades
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.8p), Anpario (4.5p), Big Yellow (15.5p), Bisichi Mining (3p), Bisichi Mining (special) (1p), Caledonia Mining (5.2p), Character Group (11p), Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust (2.15p), Establishment Investment Trust (special) (4.3p), Games Workshop (30p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.375p), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investment (1.5p), Invesco Income Growth Trust (4.1p), Land Securities (14.65p), Marwyn Value Investors (New Co) (2.064p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (11p), Morses Club (4.8p), NEX Group (7.65p), Octopus Apollo VCT (1.6p), Paragon Banking (5.5p), Prime People (3.25p), Real Estate Investors (0.875p), Renewi (2.1p), SciSys (1.57p), Shires Income (4p), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (3.1p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.66p), Value & Income Trust (3.3p), Vianet (4p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 26 July
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
BlackRock Income & Growth Inv Trust | 2.5 | 3 Sep |
Bloomsbury Publishing Ord 1.25p | 6.36 | 24 Aug |
Custodian Reit | 1.6375 | 31 Aug |
Halfords Group Ord 1p | 12.03 | 31 Aug |
Investec Ord 0.2p | 13.5 | 13 Aug |
Porvair Ord 2p (new Co ) | 1.6 | 31 Aug |
Royal Mail Ord 1p | 16.3 | 31 Aug |
Sanderson Group Ord10p | 1.25 | 10 Aug |
SSE Ord 50p | 66.3 | 21 Sep |
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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.
