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Week Ahead: 29 October to 2 November

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
October 25, 2018

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.