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Week Ahead: 5-9 November

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
November 1, 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 5 November

AGM: Ncondezi Energy

Economics: New car registrations, Markit/CIPS UK composite PMI, services PMI

Companies paying dividends: CPL Resources (6.38p), Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets (1.85p), Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets (special) (2p), WPP (22.7p)

 

Tuesday 6 November

Interims: Castleton Technology, First Derivatives

Finals: Associated British Foods, Connect, Imperial Brands, Up Global Sourcing

Trading statements: Direct Line, Purplebricks

AGMs: Abcam, Craneware, Supermarket Income REIT

Economics: BRC like-for-like sale

Companies paying dividends: Barratt Developments (17.9p), Barratt Developments (special) (17.3p), Huntsworth (0.7p), Supermarket Income REIT (1.375p), Synthomer (4p)

 

Wednesday 7 November

Interims: Dairy Crest, Marks & Spencer, Sophos

Trading statements: Belmond, Delphi Technologies

AGMs: Innovaderma, Redrow, V22

EGM: SIG

Economics: Halifax house prices

Companies paying dividends: JPM Asian Investment Trust (3.9p), JPM Japan Smaller Companies Investment Trust (4.9p), Manx Telecom (4.1p), Randall & Quilter Investment (3.6p), Statpro (0.85p)

 

Thursday 8 November

Interims: Auto Trader, Burberry, Halfords, National Grid, Renewi, Tate & Lyle, Wincanton, Sainsbury (J)

Finals: Bowleven, Gattaca

Trading statements: Arrow Global, AstraZeneca, Inmarsat, Nomad Foods

AGMs: Clinigen, Haynes Publishing

Economics: RICS house prices

Companies paying dividends: AA (0.6p), Anglo Asian Mining (3p), Begbies Traynor (1.7p), International Public Partnerships (3.5p), Mears (3.55p), Murray Income Trust (9.25p), Redde (6.15p), SciSys (0.65p)

 

Friday 9 November

Interim: Volex

AGM: Galliford Try

EGM: Titon

Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, GDP (month on month), Index of services

Companies paying dividends: Andrews Sykes (11.9p), Bioventix (36p), Bioventix (special) (55p), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (6.05p), British Land (7.75p), Charles Taylor (3.48p), Harwood Wealth Management (1.08p), Hastings (4.5p), JPMorgan Multi-Asset Trust (1p), Kingfisher (3.33p), M&C Saatchi (2.45p), Murgitroyd (14.5p), Photo-Me International (4.73p), Restore (2p), Schroder Japan Growth (4p), SIG (1.25p), Spectris (20.5p), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (29p), Taylor Wimpey (2.44p), TP ICAP (5.6p), Travis Perkins (15.5p)

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 8 November

Company

Dividend (p)

Payment

Abcam ord 1p

8.58

30 Nov

Air Partner ord 1p

1.75

7 Dec

British & American Inv Tst ord Shs £1

2.7

29 Nov

Brunner Inv Tst ord 25p

4.05

14 Dec

Burford Capital

2.8

5 Dec

Card Factory

2.9

14 Dec

Card Factory (special)

5

14 Dec

Clinigen

3.84

30 Nov

Coral Products

0.25

20 Dec

Craneware ord 1p

14

6 Dec

Croma Security Solutions

1

30 Nov

Foresight Solar Fund

1.64

23 Nov

Galliford Try ord 50p

49

5 Dec

Go-Ahead ord 10p

71.9

23 Nov

JPM Smaller Cos IT ord 25p

27

7 Dec

Panther Securities ord 25p

6

29 Nov

Revolution Bars

3.3

7 Dec

Ricardo ord 25p

14.71

23 Nov

RTC

1.3

30 Nov

Whitbread ord 76 122/153p

32.7

14 Dec

      

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.