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 11 February
Final: Acacia Mining
EGMs: Blue Prism, Gordon Dadds, Mporium
Economics: GDP (Q4) and Dec, Total business investment, Private consumption, Government spending, Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, Index of services
Companies paying dividends: Grainger (3.52p)
Tuesday 12 February
Interim: A&J Mucklow
Final: Plus500
Trading statements: AA, Tui
AGMs: Early Equity, Pressure Technologies, Tui
Companies paying dividends: Cerillion (3p), Mitie (1.33p)
Wednesday 13 February
Interims: Dunelm, Galliford Try
Finals: Smurfit Kappa, Tullow Oil
AGMs: RWS, Urban & Civic
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Dewhurst (9p), Dewhurst ‘A’ Non-Voting (9p), Investment Company (3.75p)
Thursday 14 February
Interims: Ashmore, Grit Real Estate Income, MJ Gleeson
Finals: AstraZeneca, Attraqt, ConvaTec, Indivior, Lancashire, Micro Focus International, Moneysupermarket.com
Trading statement: Safestore
AGMs: Paragon Banking, Stock Spirits, Watkin Jones
Economics: RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: Anglo Pacific (1.625p), Cardiff Property (12.2p), DP Aircraft (1.72p), Euromoney Institutional Investor (22.3p), On The Beach (2.2p)
Friday 15 February
Finals: Millennium & Copthorne, Royal Bank of Scotland, Segro
Trading statement: Asos
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: AFH Financial (2p), Baring Emerging Europe Trust (20p), British Smaller Companies VCT (7p), Consort Medical (7.6p), easyHotel (0.15p), Fletcher King (1p), Invesco Perpetual Select Trust (1.5p), K3 Capital (3.6p), Scottish Investment Trust (6.2p), Scottish Investment Trust (special) (4p), Shaftesbury (8.5p), Solid State (4.2p), Tracsis (0.9p), TUI (0.65p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 14 February
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Avon Rubber ord £1 | 10.68 | 15 Mar |
Coral Products | 0.25 | 28 Mar |
Gateley | 2.6 | 15 Mar |
Hargreaves Lansdown ord 0.04p | 10.3 | 10 Mar |
Henderson Opportunities trust ord 25p | 14.5 | 22 Mar |
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst ord 25p | 6.5 | 8 Mar |
Jarvis Securities ord 1p Aim | 6 | 7 Mar |
Knights | 0.6 | 15 Mar |
Mountview Estates ord 5p | 200 | 25 Mar |
PZ Cussons ord 10p | 2.67 | 8 Apr |
Quiz | 0.4 | 14 Mar |
Rank ord 10p | 2.15 | 14 Mar |
Royal Dutch Shell B ord euro 0.07 | 36.43 | 25 Mar |
Sanderson ord 10p | 1.75 | 1 Mar |
Schroders Oriental Inc Fund ord 1p | 1.8 | 22 Feb |
TheWorks.co.uk | 1.2 | 14 Mar |
TUI AG ord Reg NPV € | 0.65 | 15 Feb |
Unilever ord 3 1/9p | 33.61 | 20 Mar |
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.
