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 18 February
Interims: City of London Investment Group, PCI-PAL, Petra Diamonds
Finals: McColl’s Retail, Reckitt Benckiser
EGM: Rockfire Resources
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Companies paying dividends: Paragon Banking (13.9p)
Tuesday 19 February
Interims: BHP, Blancco Technology, dotdigital
Finals: HSBC, InterContinental Hotels, Spectris, Synectics
Trading statement: Walker Greenbank
EGMs: Low & Bonar, Mobile Streams
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings, CBI trends – selling prices, total orders
Wednesday 20 February
Interim: Pan African Resources
Finals: Glencore, Hochschild Mining, Intu Properties, Lloyds Banking Group, Venator Materials
Trading statement: Pinewood
AGMs: Gooch & Housego, Titon Holdings
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.4p)
Thursday 21 February
Interims: Go-Ahead Group, Hays, Innovaderma, McBride, Wilmington
Finals: Anglo American, BAE Systems, Barclays, Centrica, KAZ Minerals, Macfarlane Group, Morgan Sindall, Playtech, Rathbone Brothers, Relx, RPS Group, Serco, TBC Bank, Vitec
AGMs: IntegraFin Holdings, Oxford Metrics, SSP Group, Sunrise Resources, Tertiary Minerals
EGM: Earthport
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies paying dividends: Ramsdens Holdings (2.4p)
Friday 22 February
Finals: Holders Technology, Pearson
AGM: APC Technology
Companies paying dividends: Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), Downing One VCT (Nov2013) (3p), Drum Income Plus REIT (1.5p), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (3p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.65p), GCP Infrastructure Investments (1.9p), Primary Health Properties (1.4p), Puma VCT 11 (5p), RWS Holdings (6p), Schroders Oriental Income Fund (1.8p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure (1.5p), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (1.625p), Target Healthcare REIT (1.6448p), Victrex (41.6p), Zytronic (15.2p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 21 February
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Carnival Ord $1.66 | 38.75 | 15 Mar |
Driver Group Ord 0.4p | 0.5 | 15 Apr |
GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p | 23 | 11 Apr |
Heath (Samuel) & Sons Ord 10p | 5.5 | 22 Mar |
Imperial Brands | 65.46 | 29 Mar |
Independent Investment Trust (special) | 3 | 8 Apr |
Independent Investment Trust | 5 | 8 Apr |
Jersey Electricity Company | 8.8 | 28 Mar |
NextEnergy Solar Fund | 1.6625 | 29 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.
