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 10 September
Interims: Brady, Gulf Keystone Petroleum
Final: Abcam
Trading statement: Associated British Foods
AGMs: Aggregated Micro Power, Live Co, Totally, Victoria
EGMs: CYBG, Virgin Money
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, GDP (July), Index of Services
Companies paying dividends: AstraZeneca (68.4p), GCP Student Living (1.51p)
Tuesday 11 September
Interims: Cairn Energy, DP Eurasia, EU Supply, Harworth, Hilton Food, JD Sports Fashion, Midwich, Nucleus Financial, Regional Reit, Silence Therapeutics, Simply Biz, STM, Surgical Innovations, Team17, TP, Vectura
Finals: Alumasc, K3 Capital
Trading statement: Ashtead
AGMs: Ashtead, Bailey (CH), Bilby, Cohort, Oxford Instruments, Mulberry, Superdry
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Companies paying dividends: Hiscox (10.07p), Yu (2p)
Wednesday 12 September
Interims: Advanced Medical Solutions, Charles Taylor, Goals Soccer Centres, Medica, Property Franchise, TEN Entertainment
Finals: 1PM, Dunelm, Galliford Try, Wilmington
AGMs: AfriAg Global, Hardy Oil & Gas, Peel Hotels, ReNeuron, Sports Direct, Stenprop, Trackm8, Tricorn
EGMs: AEW UK Reit, AfriAg Global
Companies paying dividends: Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (3.69p), Lancashire (3p), Rentokil Initial (1.311p)
Thursday 13 September
Interims: Faron Pharmaceuticals, Gresham House, GVC, Ophir Energy, Oxford Biomedica, SafeCharge International, William Morrison Supermarkets
Final: Ricardo
AGMs: Bahamas Petroleum, City of London Group, Colefax, Flybe, Picton Property Income, XPS Pensions
EGMs: Genedrive, Solo Oil
Economics: RICS house prices, Bank of England bank rate announcement, asset and corporate bond purchase targets
Company paying dividend: Franchise Brands (0.21p)
Friday 14 September
Interim: PV Crystalox
Final: JD Wetherspoon
Trading statement: Investec
AGM: Omega Diagnostics
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust (3.3p), Apax Global Alpha (4.33p), Ashtead (27.5p), Berkeley Group (33.3p), Carnival (37.87p), Chemring (1.1p), D4t4 Solutions (1.875p), Domino’s Pizza (4.05p), Empiric Student Property (1.25p), Gordon Dadds (4p), Greene King (24.4p), IMI (14.6p), Informa (7.05p), London & Associated Properties (0.175p), London & Associated Properties (special) (0.125p), LSL Property Services (4p), Mondi (19.17p), Moneysupermarket.com (2.94p), Motorpoint (4.6p), North Midland Construction (6p), Pearson (5.5p), Quartix (2.4p), Quiz (0.8p), Real Estate Credit Investments (3p), RM Secured Direct Lending (1.625p), Schroder European Reit (1.65p), Severfield (1.7p), Synectics (1.2p), Triad (1p), Walker Crips (1.29p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 13 September
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Acorn Income Fund | 4.95 | 28 Sep |
BBA Aviation ord 29 16/21p | 3 | 2 Nov |
BCA Marketplace | 5.95 | 28 Sep |
Centaur Media ord 10p | 1.5 | 4 Oct |
Churchill China ord 10p | 8.7 | 5 Oct |
Cineworld ord 1p | 3.75 | 5 Oct |
Communisis ord 25p | 0.93 | 12 Oct |
Computacenter ord 6p | 8.7 | 12 Oct |
Costain ord 50p | 5.15 | 19 Oct |
Derwent London ord 5p | 19.1 | 19 Oct |
Elderstreet Draper Esprit VCT | 1.5 | 12 Oct |
Equiniti | 1.83 | 26 Oct |
F&C UK Real Estate Investments | 1.25 | 28 Sep |
Gateley | 4.8 | 5 Oct |
Gocompare.com | 0.8 | 5 Oct |
Highcroft Investment Trust ord 25p | 18.75 | 12 Oct |
Holders Technology | 0.25 | 9 Oct |
Inmarsat ord €0.0005 | 6.08 | 19 Oct |
Jupiter Green Investment Trust | 1.3 | 5 Oct |
LXB Retail Properties | 4 | 27 Sep |
Naspers | 5.29 | 27 Sep |
Oxford Instruments ord 5p | 9.6 | 19 Oct |
RPS ord 3p | 4.8 | 12 Oct |
South32 | 4.7948 | 11 Oct |
Tex ord 10p | 2.5 | 5 Oct |
Trifast ord 5p | 2.75 | 12 Oct |
Univision Engineering ord HK$ 0.0625 | 0.389 | 8 Oct |
XP Power ord 1p | 17 | 11 Oct |
Zotefoams ord 5p | 1.97 | 11 Oct |
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.
