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 12 November
Interim: McKay Securities
Final: Carr’s Group
EGM: Futura Medical
Company paying dividends: Tandem (1.42p)
Tuesday 13 November
Interims: AdEPT Technology, BTG, Carclo, Codemasters, Experian, First Group, Land Securities, Oxford Instruments, Premier Foods, Schroder REIT, Trifast, Vodafone
Final: McCarthy & Stone
Trading statements: Aggreko, BBA Aviation, Meggitt, Taylor Wimpey
AGM: Mucklow (A&J)
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Companies paying dividends: Redrow (19p), Staffline (11.3p)
Wednesday 14 November
Interims: British Land, Flybe, Renold, Speedy Hire, SSE, Workspace
Finals: AB Dynamics, Avon Rubber, Grainger
Trading statements: Awilco Drilling, Ithaca Energy, JPJ Group
AGMs: Diurnal Group, Hays, Smiths Group
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer price index, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Strategic Equity Capital (1p)
Thursday 15 November
Interims: 3i, Dart Group, Enteq Upstream, Great Portland Estates, Intermediate Capital, Investec, Mediclinic, Norcros, QinetiQ, Royal Mail, TBC Bank, Young & Co’s Brewery
Trading statements: Close Brothers, Safestore, Spirax-Sarco Engineering
AGMs: Avingtrans, Close Brothers, Genus, Gunsynd, JD Wetherspoon, Ricardo, Swallowfield
EGMs: JD Wetherspoon, Standard Life Aberdeen
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Anglo Pacific (1.625p), British American Tobacco (48.8p), Curtis Banks (2p), Haynes Publishing (4p), Merchants Trust (6.5p), Sagicor Financial Corp (1.908p), STM (0.7p)
Friday 16 November
AGMs: Eagle Eye Solutions, Kier
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.25p), Coats (0.38p), Dechra Pharmaceuticals (18.17p), Grit Real Estate Income (6.12p), Hays (2.75p), Hays (special) (5p), Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equity (1.5p), Invesco Perpetual Select Global Equity (1.5p), Menzies (John) (6p), NewRiver REIT (5.4p), S&U (32p), Smiths Group (30.75p), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (1.625p), Warpaint London (1.5p), Wilmington (4.8p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 15 November
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aberdeen Frontier Markets Fund Npv | 0.7618 | 19 Dec |
Anpario Ord 23p | 2.2 | 30 Nov |
Bunzl Ord 32 1/7p | 15.2 | 2 Jan |
Dunelm Group Ord 1p | 19.5 | 7 Dec |
Genus Ord 10p | 17.9 | 30 Nov |
Gleeson (M.J.) Group Ord 2p | 23 | 14 Dec |
Gulf Investment Fund | 2.3 | 21 Dec |
ICG Enterprise Trust | 5.0 | 7 Dec |
Invesco Perp UK Smaller Co's Inv Ord £1 | 3.65 | 14 Dec |
Jupiter European Opps Tst | 6.5 | 17 Dec |
New Star Investment Trust Ord 1p | 1.0 | 30 Nov |
Picton Property Income | 0.875 | 30 Nov |
Rotala Ord 1p | 0.92 | 7 Dec |
Royal Dutch Shell B Ord Euro 0.07 | 36.15 | 19 Dec |
Royal Dutch Shell A Ord €0.07 | 36.15 | 19 Dec |
Spire Healthcare | 1.3 | 11 Dec |
Swallowfield Ord 5p | 4.2 | 7 Dec |
Tristel Ord 1p | 2.98 | 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.
