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 19 November
Interims: 600 Group, Sirius Real Estate
Finals: Diploma, Redx Pharma
AGM: Skinbiotherapeutics
Economics: Rightmove house prices, CBI trends – total orders, selling prices
EGMs: Mountview Estates, Sequa Petroleum
Companies paying dividends: City Merchants High Yield Trust (2.5p), Hadrian’s Wall Secured Investment (1.5p), Murray International Trust (11.5p)
Tuesday 20 November
Interims: AO World, AVEVA, Big Yellow, Bonmarchė, CML Microsystems, Eckoh, Electrocomponents, Halma, Homeserve, IMImobile, Scapa Group, Solid State, SRT Marine Systems, Telecom Plus
Finals: Compass Group, CYBG, easyJet, Ei Group, Focusrite
Trading statements: Atlas Estates, Coats Group, Spectris
AGMs: Physiomics, Pan African Resources, Wilmcote Holdings
EGM: Ascent Resources
Companies paying dividends: Close Brothers (42p), Intu Properties (4,6p), Lookers (1.48p), Taptica International (0.398p)
Wednesday 21 November
Interims: Babcock International, Biffa, Creighton’s, Helical, Johnson Matthey, Liontrust Asset Management, NewRiver REIT, TalkTalk Telecom, United Utilities
Finals: Cambria Automobiles, Countryside Properties, Marston’s, Paragon Banking, Sage Group, SSP
Trading statement: Kingfisher
AGMs: Finsbury Food Group, ScS Group
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: HSBC (7.7p), Ideagen (0.163p)
Thursday 22 November
Interims: Assura, Charles Stanley, CMC Markets, First Property Group, Majestic Wine, Mitie Group, Redcentric, Severn Trent
Finals: Euromoney Institutional Investor, Mitchells & Butlers
Trading statements: Centrica, Keller
AGMs: Berkeley Energia, MBL Group, Thorpe (FW), URA Holdings
Companies paying dividends: Centrica (3.6p), M Winkworth (1.85p), Mulberry (5p), Plus500 (1.3786p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure (1.5p)
Friday 23 November
Interims: Immunodiagnostic Systems, Record
Final: Future
Economics: CBI reported sales – retail, total distribution
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust (7p), Amati Aim VCT (3.5p), Animalcare (2p), Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), Bovis Homes (19p), Bovis Homes (special) (45p), Caretech (3.5p), Drum Income Plus REIT (1.5p), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (3p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.64p), Go-Ahead Group (71.9p), Howden Joinery (3.7p), Impact Health (1.5p), Investment Company (5p), Jupiter UK Growth Investment Trust (7p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (1.43p), Morgan Advanced Materials (4p), Moss Bros (1.5p), National Milk Records (2.5p), Next Fifteen Communications (2.16p), Primary Health Properties (1.35p), Ricardo (14.71p), Saga (3p), Smart Metering Systems (2p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.604p), Ted Baker (17.9p), Tesco (1.67p), Walker Greenbank (0.69p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 22 November
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
3i Infrastructure PLC | 4.325 | 7 Jan |
BlackRock World Mining Trust | 3 | 21 Dec |
Carnival Ord $1.66 | 38.15 | 14 Dec |
CVS Group Ord 2p | 5 | 7 Dec |
Downing Three VCT | 2.5 | 14 Dec |
Edinburgh Dragon Trust Ord 20p | 4 | 21 Dec |
Finsbury Food Group Ord 1p | 2.2 | 21 Dec |
Hotel Chocolat Group Ord 0.1p | 1.1 | 21 Dec |
Imperial Brands | 65.46 | 31 Dec |
Kin and Carta | 1.3 | 17 Dec |
London Finance & Investment Grp.5p | 0.6 | 18 Dec |
National Grid Ord 11 17/43p | 16.08 | 9 Jan |
Octopus Apollo VCT | 1.5 | 14 Dec |
Princess Private Equity Hlds Ord Eur | 25.06 | 21 Dec |
River and Mercantile Group (special) | 2.3 | 14 Dec |
River and Mercantile Group | 3.2 | 14 Dec |
Sanditon Investment Trust | 0.5 | 19 Dec |
Scottish American Inv Co Ord 25p | 2.9 | 19 Dec |
Smart (J) Contractors Ord 2p | 2.21 | 19 Dec |
Tate & Lyle Ord 25p | 8.6 | 4 Jan |
Ten Entertainment Group PLC | 3.3 | 4 Jan |
Volution Group | 2.98 | 18 Dec |
Western Selection Ord £0.40 | 1.15 | 11 Dec |
Yu Group | 1.2 | 8 Jan |
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.
