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.
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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.