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 15 October
Final: Residential Secure Income Reit
Trading statements: Rio Tinto, Schroders
AGM: Imaginatik
EGM: CareTech
Companies paying dividends: Mucklow (A&J) (5.3p), PPHE Hotel Group (16p), Regional Reit (1.85p)
Tuesday 16 October
Interims: BP Marsh & Partners, Gear4Music
Finals: Bellway, dotdigital, Nanoco, Netcall
Trading statements: Ixico, Merlin Entertainments
AGMs: BHP Billiton, Frontier Developments
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Companies paying dividends: Old Mutual (2.26p), Old Mutual (special) 5.01p)
Wednesday 17 October
Finals: Asos, Softcat, Tristel
Trading statements: Barratt Developments, Segro
AGM: Barratt Developments
EGM: Altona Energy
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Eco Animal Health (6p), Non-Standard Finance (0.6p), Shore Capital (5p), Somero Enterprises (4.26p)
Thursday 18 October
Final: Applied Graphene Materials
Trading statements: Domino’s Pizza, International Personal Finance, National Express, Rank, Rentokil Initial, Unilever
AGMs: Rank, Renishaw
EGM: Big Sofa Technologies
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Gamma Communications (3.1p), Hydrogen (0.5p), Jardine Matheson (42p), TT electronics (1.95p)
Friday 19 October
Trading statements: InterContinental Hotels, London Stock Exchange, Provident Financial, Record
AGMs: Ashmore, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Purplebricks
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: Boot (Henry) (3.2p), Christie (1.25p), Costain (5.15p), Derwent London (19.1p), Eddie Stobart Logistics (1.54p), Epwin (1.7p), Foresight 4 VCT (4p), Green Reit (2.7p), Hargreaves Lansdown (22.1p), Hargreaves Lansdown (special) (7.8p), Harworth (0.278p), HML (0.42p), Hunters Property (0.8p), Inmarsat (6.08p), Intertek (31.9p), Kainos (4.6p), Lighthouse (0.2p), Norish Units (1.47p), Nucleus Financial (1.4p), Oxford Instruments (9.6p), Palace Capital (4.75p), Petrofac (10p), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (2.1p), Robert Walters (4p), Sanne (4.6p), Shepherd Neame (23.45p), Shire (4.27p), Vitec (11.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 18 October
Amati AIM VCT | 3.5 | 23 Nov |
Animalcare ord 20p | 2 | 23 Nov |
BAE Systems ord 2.5p | 9 | 30 Nov |
City of London Inv Tst ord 25p | 4.55 | 30 Nov |
Grit Real Estate Income | 6.12 | 16 Nov |
Inspired Energy | 0.19 | 6 Dec |
Intu Properties | 4.6 | 20 Nov |
Invesco Perpetual Sel Trst UK Eq 1p | 1.5 | 16 Nov |
Invesco Perpetual Select Global Eqty | 1.5 | 16 Nov |
James Halstead ord 5p | 9.65 | 7 Dec |
Jupiter UK Growth Inv. Trust ord 5p | 7 | 23 Nov |
Kerry | 18.65 | 16 Nov |
Lookers ord 25p | 1.48 | 20 Nov |
MP Evans 10p | 5 | 2 Nov |
Marshalls ord 25p | 4 | 5 Dec |
Mears ord 1p | 3.55 | 8 Nov |
Menzies (John) ord 25p | 6 | 16 Nov |
Moss Bros ord 5p | 1.5 | 23 Nov |
National Milk Records | 2.5 | 23 Nov |
NewRiver Reit | 5.4 | 16 Nov |
Photo-Me International ord 0.5p | 4.73 | 9 Nov |
Saga ord 1p | 3 | 23 Nov |
Schroder Japan Growth ord 10p | 4 | 9 Nov |
Smiths ord 25p | 30.75 | 16 Nov |
Stilo International ord 10p | 0.06 | 20 Oct |
Sylvania Platinum | 0.35 | 30 Nov |
Wilmington | 4.8 | 16 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.
