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 8 October
Interim: Angling Direct
Final: Bioventix
Trading statement: RPC
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales
Companies paying dividends: Adept Telecom (4.5p), Hammerson (11.1p), Univision Engineering (0.389p)
Tuesday 9 October
Interim: Lidco
Finals: Ceres Power, Mysale, St Ives, YouGov
Trading statement: Greggs
Wednesday 10 October
Interim: Vertu Motors, Walker Greenbank
Trading statements: Genel Energy, Marston's, PageGroup, Telford Homes
EGM: Whitbread
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, GDP, Index of services, RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: Colefax (2.6p), Jardine Strategic (10p), PageGroup (4.1p), PageGroup (special) (12.73p)
Thursday 11 October
Interim: N Brown
Finals: Volution, WH Smith
Trading statements: Dunelm, Hays, Jupiter Fund Management, Mondi, Moneysupermarket.com
AGM: Hargreaves Lansdown
EGM: LXI REIT
Companies paying dividends: Forterra (3.3p), GlaxoSmithKline (19p), Macfarlane (0.65p), Restaurant Group (6.8p), South32 (4.7948p), United Carpets (2.85p), XP Power (17p), Zotefoams (1.97p)
Friday 12 October
Trading statement: Ashmore
AGM: MBL Group
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Diversified Income & Growth Trust (1.31p), Alpha FX (1.9p), Arrow Global (4p), Chesnara (7.21p), Communisis (0.93p), Computacenter (8.7p), Concurrent Technologies (0.95p), Drax (5.6p), Duke Royalty (0.7p), Elderstreet Draper Esprit VCT (1.5p), G4S (3.59p), Highcroft Investment Trust (18.75p), JPM European Investment Trust Growth (4.85p), JPM European Investment Trust Income (1.25p), Melrose Industries (1.55p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), PHSC (0.5p), RPS (4.8p), RSA Insurance (7.3p), Safecharge International (6.82p), Sophos (2.51p), The Gym Group (0.35p), Total Produce (0.9129p), Trifast (2.75p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 11 October
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Anglo Asian Mining Ord 1p | 3 | 8 Nov |
Barratt Developments Ord 10p (special) | 17.3 | 6 Nov |
Barratt Developments Ord 10p | 17.9 | 6 Nov |
Begbies Traynor Ord 5p | 1.7 | 8 Nov |
CareTech | 3.5 | 23 Nov |
Centrica Ord 5 5/9p | 3.6 | 22 Nov |
Charles Taylor | 3.48 | 9 Nov |
City of London Investment Group | 18 | 30 Oct |
Close Brothers Group Ord 25p | 42 | 20 Nov |
CPL RESOURCES EUR0.10 | 6.38 | 5 Nov |
Curtis Banks Group PLC | 2 | 15 Nov |
Learning Technologies Group | 0.15 | 2 Nov |
Manx Telecom | 4.1 | 7 Nov |
Morgan Sindall Group | 19 | 29 Oct |
Murgitroyd Group Ord 10p | 14.5 | 9 Nov |
OneSavings Bank Ord 1p | 4.3 | 2 Nov |
River and Mercantile Group | 4.2 | 2 Nov |
River and Mercantile Group | 1.3 | 2 Nov |
SciSys Ord 25p | 0.65 | 8 Nov |
Spectris Group Ord 5p | 20.5 | 9 Nov |
Spirax-Sarco Engineering Ord 25p | 29 | 9 Nov |
Staffline Group Ord 10p | 11.3 | 12 Nov |
STM Group Ord 0.1p | 0.7 | 15 Nov |
Superdry | 25 | 14 Dec |
Treasury Gilt 1 5/8pc 2028 | 0.9777 | 22 Oct |
Treasury Index-Linked 1 pc 2024 | 0.2432 | 22 Oct |
Weir Group Ord 2.5p | 15.75 | 2 Nov |
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.
