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 29 October
Finals: Lok’n Store, Wey Education
Trading statement: HSBC
AGM: ITM Power
Economics: UK budget, Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, CBI retailing, total distribution reported sales
Companies paying dividends: Harvey Nash (1.75p), Morgan Sindall (19p)
Tuesday 30 October
Finals: Egdon Resources, Proactis
Trading statements: BP, Oxford Immunotec Global, Reckitt Benckiser, Venator Materials
AGMs: Accrol, Angle, Hargreaves Services, Ideagen, Newmark Security, Real Good Food, Rosslyn Data Technologies, Scancell
Companies paying dividends: City of London Investment Group (18p), K3 Capital (8.4p), Rank (5.3p)
Wednesday 31 October
Final: Oncimmune
Trading statements: Computercenter, Dialog Semiconductor, GlaxoSmithKline, Just Group, LivaNova, Next, Standard Chartered
AGMs: AEW UK Long Lease REIT, Brooks Macdonald, Defenx, VietNam
EGM: VietNam
Economics: BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: 888 (3.1973p), Abbey (8.78p), Alumasc (4.4p), Beeks Financial Cloud (0.3p), Elecosoft (0.28p), Essentra (6.3p), European Assets Trust (2.08p), F&C Private Equity Trust (3.57p), Global Ports (21.6p), Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income (1.25p), Kings Arms Yard VCT (0.6p), Lowland Investment (14p), Middlefield Canadian Investment Trust (1.275p), Nahl (3.2p), Smith & Nephew (10.7p), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (5.5p), Triple Point Social Housing (1.25p), Wynnstay (4.41p)
Thursday 1 November
Interim: BT
Trading statements: Croda International, Indivior, Janus Henderson, Lancashire, Smith & Nephew, Travelport Worldwide, Zeal Network
AGMs: Go-Ahead, Pathfinder Minerals, Plutus Powergen, Wilmington
EGMs: Access Intelligence, Aggregated Micro Power
Economics: Markit UK PMI manufacturing, Bank of England base rate announcement, asset and corporate bond target, inflation report
Companies paying dividends: 1PM (0.65p), Arena Events (0.5p), DS Smith (9.8p), Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust (2.7p), Mercantile Investment Trust (1.25p)
Friday 2 November
Trading statements: TP Icap, Willis Towers Watson
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK construction PMI
Companies paying dividends: BBA Aviation (3p), Belvoir Lettings (3.4p), Bodycote (5.7p), Brooks Macdonald (30p), Cello Health (1.1p), Cenkos Securities (2p), Daejan (68p), EMIS (14.2p), F&C UK High Income Trust 'A' shares (1.25p), F&C UK High Income Trust 'B' shares (1.25p), Fisher (James) & Sons (10.3p), Games Workshop (35p), Good Energy (1p), Hargreaves Services (4.5p), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt (1.5p), Johnson Service (1p), Judges Scientific (12p), Learning Technologies (0.15p), MP Evans (5p), One Savings Bank (4.3p), Rightmove (25p), River & Mercantile (4.2p), River & Mercantile (special) (1.3p), Scottish Investment Trust (5p), Unite (9.5p), Volga Gas (0.06p), Weir (15.75p), XLMedia (2.2728p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 1 November
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Ashmore ord 0.01P | 12.1 | 7 Dec |
Axiom European Financial Debt NPV | 1.5 | 23 Nov |
Crown Place VCT ord 10p | 1 | 30 Nov |
Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst ord 25p | 3 | 23 Nov |
Hilton Food ord 10p | 5.6 | 30 Nov |
Ideagen ord £0.01 | 0.163 | 21 Nov |
Morgan Advanced Materials ord 25p | 4 | 23 Nov |
NWF ord 25p | 5.3 | 6 Dec |
SCS | 10.9 | 26 Nov |
Senior ord 10p | 2.19 | 30 Nov |
Softcat ord 0.0005p | 8.8 | 14 Dec |
Softcat ord 0.0005p | 15.1 | 14 Dec |
SThree ord 1p | 4.7 | 7 Dec |
Mission Marketing 10p | 0.7 | 30 Nov |
Thorpe (FW) ord 10p | 4 | 29 Nov |
Unilever ord 3 1/9p | 33.93 | 5 Dec |
Warpaint London | 1.5 | 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.