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 22 October
AGMs: City of London Investment Group, Vast Resources
Companies paying dividends: Standard Chartered (4.58p)
Tuesday 23 October
Interims: 1Spatial, Bloomsbury Publishing, Whitbread
Trading statements: Anglo American, Pentair
AGMs: Coral Products, McBride, Mirada, OPG Power Ventures, Vela Technologies
Economics: CBI trends – selling prices, total orders
Companies paying dividends: Pendragon (0.8p), Renishaw (46p), SimplyBiz (0.98p)
Wednesday 24 October
Interims: U&I Group, Stobart Group
Trading statements: Antofagasta, Barclays, Image Scan Holdings, TechnipFMC
AGMs: Beeks Financial Cloud, National Milk Records, Photo-Me International, Redde
EGM: IndigoVision
Economics: UK finance loans for housing
Companies paying dividends: Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (1p), Hunting (3.15p)
Thursday 25 October
Interims: Air Partner, Braemar Shipping Services, C&C Group
Finals: Debenhams, RDI REIT
Trading statements: Alumasc, Hastings Group
AGMs: 1pm, Alumasc, Filtronic, Goldplat, Mattioli Woods, Octagonal, Premaitha Health, Provexis
EGM: Hydrodec
Companies paying dividends: Airea (1.75p), Capital & Regional Properties (1.82p), Clarke (T) (0.66p), GVC Holdings (16p), JPMorgan Global Convertibles Income (1.125p), Oakley Capital Investments (2.25p)
Friday 26 October
Trading statement: International Consolidated Airlines, Royal Bank of Scotland
AGMs: Paternoster Resources, Springfield Properties
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund (0.875p), Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.8p), Advanced Medical Solutions (0.42p), Barr (A.G.) 3.9p), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (2.03p), Caledonia Mining (5.3p), Central Asia Minerals (6.5p), Consort Medical (13.56p), Dart Group (6p), Dignity (8.64p), Eckoh (0.55p), Equiniti (1.83p), Flowtech FluidPower (2.03p), Fulcrum Utility services (1.4p), GBGI (1.4p), Hansteen Holdings (2.4p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.425p), HgCapital Trust (16p), IG Group (33.51p), Invesco Income Growth Trust (2.4p), John Laing (1.8p), JPM Russian Securities (20p), JTC (1p), Keystone Law Group (2.5p), Keywords Studios (0.53p), Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust (0.9p), Mattioli Woods (11.5p), Medica (0.75p), Midwich (4.6p), Mortgage Advice Bureau (10.6p), North American Income (8p), Octagonal (0.1p), Premier Technical Services (0.9p), Ranger Direct Lending Fund (14.28p), Real Estate Investors (0.875p), Securities Trust of Scotland (1.45p), Shires Income (3p), Smurfit Kappa (22.53p), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (3.1p), Strix Group (2.3p), Trans-Siberian Gold (0.68p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.685p), Value & Income Trust (2.8p), Xpediator (0.42p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 25 October
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Animalcare | 2 | 23 Nov |
Avingtrans Ord 5p | 2.3 | 7 Dec |
Bankers Investment Trust Ord 25p | 5 | 30 Nov |
Bioventix Ord 5p | 55 | 9 Nov |
Bioventix Ord 5p | 36 | 9 Nov |
Caretech Holding Ord 0.5p | 3.5 | 23 Nov |
City Natural Resources High Yield | 1.26 | 30 Nov |
Coats Group | 0.38 | 16 Nov |
Custodian Reit | 1.6375 | 30 Nov |
Dechra Pharmaceuticals Ord 1p | 18.17 | 16 Nov |
El Oro | 2.54 | 26 Nov |
Ferguson | 101.61 | 5 Dec |
Harwood Wealth Management Group | 1.08 | 9 Nov |
Haynes Publishing Group Ord 20p | 4 | 15 Nov |
Howden Joinery Group | 3.7 | 23 Nov |
ITV Ord 10p | 2.6 | 3 Dec |
Joules Group | 1.3 | 15 Jan |
M&C Saatchi Ord 1p | 2.45 | 9 Nov |
McBride Ord 10p | 2.8 | 30 Nov |
Mulberry Ord 5p | 5 | 22 Nov |
Next Fifteen Communications Ord 2.5p | 2.16 | 23 Nov |
Rolls Royce Holdings Ord 20p | 4.6 | 7 Jan |
S & U Ord 12.5p | 32 | 16 Nov |
Smart Metering Systems | 2 | 23 Nov |
Walker Greenbank Ord 1p | 0.69 | 23 Nov |
Wetherspoon (JD) Ord 2p | 8 | 29 Nov |
William Hill Ord 10p | 4.26 | 28 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.
