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 7 January
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: 3i Infrastructure (4.325p), Big Yellow (16.7p), Caffyns (7.5p), Clipper Logistics (3.2p), Homeserve (5.2p), Rolls Royce (4.6p)
Tuesday 8 January
Interim: Gateley Holdings
Final: Safestore
Trading statement: Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets
AGM: Carr’s Group
EGM: Directa Plus
Economics: Halifax house prices
Companies paying dividends: Yu Group (1.2p)
Wednesday 9 January
Final: Shoe Zone
Trading statements: J Sainsbury, Taylor Wimpey
Companies paying dividends: 3i Group (15p), Bellway (95p), Electrocomponents (5.3p), National Grid (16.08p), Worldwide Healthcare Trust (6.5p)
Thursday 10 January
Trading statements: Card Factory, Marks & Spencer, Robert Walters, Tesco
AGM: Debenhams
EGM: Bioquell
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales
Companies paying dividends: Alliance Pharma (0.487p), Caledonia Investments (16.1p), D4t4 Solutions (0.7p), GlaxoSmithKline (19p), Intermediate Capital (10p), Lok’NStore (7.67p), London Metric Property (1.9p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), XP Power (19p)
Friday 11 January
Trading statement: AO World
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, GDP
Companies paying dividends: Aeorema Communications (0.75p), Associated British Foods (33.3p), Brown (N) (2.83p), Carr’s Group (2.35p), Civitas Social Housing (1.11p), Cropper (James) (2.5p), JPM European Investment Trust (1.25p), Marks & Spencer (6.8p), Michelmersh Brick (1.06p), Murray Income Trust (8p), Norcros (2.8p), Paypoint (15.6p), Paypoint (special) (12.2p), Pets at Home (2.5p), Polar Capital (8p), Severfield (1p), Tarsus (3.3p), Telford Homes (8.5p), Triad Group (1p), Vp (8.2p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 10 January
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Albion Venture Capital Trust | 2.5 | 31 Jan |
Amigo Holdings | 1.87 | 29 Jan |
Baring Emerging Europe Trust Ord $0.10 | 20 | 15 Feb |
BHP Group (special) | 81.21 | 30 Jan |
BMO Private Equity Trust | 3.58 | 31 Jan |
Brewin Dolphin Holdings Ord 1p | 12 | 6 Feb |
DotDigital Group Ord 0.5p | 0.64 | 31 Jan |
Greencore Ord I£0.50 | 3.37 | 5 Feb |
Henderson European Focus Trust | 21.5 | 8 Feb |
Income & Growth VCT | 3.5 | 15 Feb |
Majedie Investments 10p | 7 | 23 Jan |
On The Beach Group | 2.2 | 14 Feb |
Paragon Banking Group | 13.9 | 18 Feb |
QINETIQ Group Ord 1p | 2.1 | 8 Feb |
Schroder European REIT | 1.62 | 25 Jan |
Smith (WH) Group Ord 20p | 38.1 | 31 Jan |
Stride Gaming Ord 1p | 1.7 | 6 Feb |
UDG Healthcare | 9.13 | 4 Feb |
Unicorn AIM VCT | 3.5 | 1 Feb |
Urban&Civic | 2.2 | 27 Feb |
Workspace Group Ord 100p | 10.61 | 6 Feb |
XPS Pensions Group | 2.3 | 7 Feb |
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.
