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 4 February
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK construction
Companies paying dividends: Britvic (20.3p), BT (4.62p), Topps Tiles (2.3p), UDG Healthcare (9.13p)
Tuesday 5 February
Interim: Mattioli Woods
Finals: Amino Technologies, BP, Ocado, RM, St Modwen Properties
AGMs: Dewhurst, Numis, Ten Lifestyle
Economics: BRC like-for-like sales, Markit/CIPS UK services PMI, composite PMI, Official reserves
Companies paying dividends: Greencore (3.37p), Johnson Matthey (23.25p)
Wednesday 6 February
Interims: Barratt Developments, Frontier Developments, Redrow
Final: GlaxoSmithKline
Trading statements: Electrocomponents, Victrex
AGMs: Daily Mail & General Trust, Grainger, Imperial Brands, Premier Asset Management, Stride Gaming, Victrex, Zytronic
EGMs: CH Bailey, Richoux, Royal Bank of Scotland
Companies paying dividends: Ashtead (6.5p), Brewin Dolphin (12p), Halma (6.11p), JPM Asian Investment Trust (3.7p), JPM Japan Smaller Companies (3.9p), Stride Gaming (1.7p), Workspace (10.61p)
Thursday 7 February
Interim: Supermarket Income REIT
Finals: Beazley, Kcell, Smith & Nephew
Trading statements: Compass, Cranswick, Superdry, Severn Trent, Tate & Lyle, Thomas Cook
AGMs: Compass, easyJet, Ei, Future, Nektan, On the Beach, Thomas Cook
EGM: Ei Group
Economics: Halifax house prices, Bank of England rate setting, inflation report, corporate bond and asset purchase target
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (3.49p), BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (special) (0.79p), British American Tobacco (48.8p), Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust (5p), XPS Pensions (2.3p)
Friday 8 February
Trading statement: SSE
AGMs: Cerillion, Shaftesbury
Companies paying dividends: Alcentra European Floating Rate (1.16p), Bisichi Mining (1p), Bowleven (special) (15p), British Land (7.75p), Countryside Properties (6.6p), Daily Mail & General Trust 'A' ord (non-voting) (16.2p), Hargreave Hale Aim VCT (2.65p), Henderson European Focus Trust (21.5p), JPMorgan Multi-Asset Trust (1p), NewRiver REIT (5.4p), Numis (6.5p), QinetiQ (2.1p), Supermarket Income REIT (1.419p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 7 February
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Albion Enterprise VCT | 3 | 28 Feb |
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust | 4.5 | 8 Mar |
Baronsmead Venture Trust | 4.5 | 8 Mar |
BlackRock Income & Growth Inv Trust | 4.4 | 19 Mar |
Daejan ord 25p | 35 | 8 Mar |
Elegant Hotels | 2.66 | 8 Mar |
Foresight Solar Fund | 1.65 | 22 Feb |
Impax Asset Management | 3 | 15 Mar |
JPM Russian Securities ord 1p | 6 | 15 Mar |
Motorpoint | 2.5 | 15 Mar |
NCC ord 1p | 1.5 | 28 Feb |
Nexus Infrastructure | 4.4 | 5 Mar |
Polar Capital Global Fin Trust | 1.9 | 28 Feb |
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust | 1 | 28 Feb |
Puma VCT 11 | 5 | 22 Feb |
Sage ord 1p | 10.85 | 1 Mar |
Stock Spirits | 5.2 | 1 Mar |
Treatt ord 2p | 3.5 | 21 Mar |
Zytronic ord 1p | 15.2 | 22 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.
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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.
