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 25 February
Interims: Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Finsbury Food, Tristel
Finals: Ascential, Bunzl, Centamin, Dialight, Hammerson, Kosmos Energy, Quartix, Reach, RTC
Trading statement: Associated British Foods
AGM: Wey Education
EGMs: Kromek, Midatech Pharma
Companies paying dividends: City Merchants High Yield Trust (2.5p), Compass (25.4p), M Winkworth (1.9p)
Tuesday 26 February
Interims: Green REIT, Hotel Chocolat, Town Centre Securities
Finals: Augean, Croda International, Dalata Hotel, Derwent London, Devro, Drax, James Fisher & Sons, Lighthouse, Meggitt, Morgan Advanced Materials, Persimmon, Standard Chartered, Synectics, Travis Perkins, Worldpay
Trading statements: Babcock International, GW Pharmaceuticals
AGM: Elegant Hotels
EGM: Cairn Homes
Economics: UK finance loans for housing
Companies paying dividends: Yew Grove REIT (0.8456p)
Wednesday 27 February
Interims: Avingtrans, Clinigen, Redde
Finals: Capital & Counties Properties, CEVA, FBD, International Personal Finance, ITV, Metro Bank, Nichols, Provident Financial, Rio Tinto, St James’s Place, Tarsus, Taylor Wimpey, UNITE, Weir
AGMs: Driver Group, Image Scan, Nexus Infrastructure, Sage
EGMs: Personal Group, Polemos
Economics: BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: Cohort (2.85p), Hollywood Bowl (4.23p), Urban&Civic (2.2p)
Thursday 28 February
Interims: Genus, Management Resource Solutions, Ricardo
Finals: Arrow Global, Aston Martin Lagonda, Bakkavor, Bovis Homes, British American Tobacco, CRH, Dairy Farm International, Diversified Gas & Oil, Foxtons, Gocompare.com, Grafton, Greencoat UK Wind, Hastings, Howden Joinery, Hunting, Inchcape, International Consolidated Airlines, Jardine Matheson, Merlin Entertainments, Mondi, National Express, Petrofac, PPHE Hotel, Rentokil Initial, Rolls-Royce, RSA Insurance, Spire Healthcare
Trading statement: Amigo
AGMs: Formation, Jersey Electricity
EGMs: BTG, DP Poland, Primary Health Properties
Economics: GfK consumer confidence
Companies paying dividends: AEW REIT (2p), Albion Enterprise VCT (3p), Bankers Investment Trust (5p), Chenavari Capital Solutions (0.5p), City of London Investment Trust (4.55p), CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income (1.26p), CQS New City High Yield Fund (1p), Diverse Income Trust (0.8p), Edinburgh Investment Trust (6.25p), Ediston Property Investment Company (0.4792), EJF Ord (2.675p), F&C Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), Greencoat UK Wind (1.69p), Henderson Far East Income Trust (5.5p), Hipgnosis Songs Fund (0.5p), IG (12.96p), NB Global Floating Rate Income (1.08p), NB Private Equity Partners Limited Zero (0.28p), NCC (1.5p), PHSC (0.5p), Picton Property Income (0.875p), Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (1.9p), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (1p), Puma VCT 10 (6p), The PRS REIT (1p), Trans-Siberian Gold (special) (0.505p), UK Commercial Property REIT (0.92p), Watkin Jones (5.13p)
Friday 1 March
Interim: Revolution Bars
Finals: Coats, Essentra, IMI, Jupiter Fund Management, London Stock Exchange, Mail.ru, Man Group, Rightmove, Robert Walters, William Hill, WPP
AGMs: Actual Experience, AFH Financial
EGMs: Luceco, MedicX Fund
Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Markit UK PMI manufacturing survey
Companies paying dividends: APQ Global (1.5p), Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing (0.025p), CPL Resources (6.2p), Games Workshop (25p), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (1.525p), Gooch & Housego (7.1p), ICG Enterprise Trust (5p), Sage (10.85p), Sanderson (1.75p), Zegona Communications (2.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 28 February
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aberdeen Emerg Mtks Inv Co Ltd ord £0.01 | 5.25 | 29 Mar |
Alumasc ord 12.5p | 2.95 | 8 Apr |
Arden Partners ord 10p | 1 | 27 Mar |
Astrazeneca ord 25p | 146 | 27 Mar |
Diageo ord 28 101/108p | 26.1 | 11 Apr |
easyJet ord 25p | 58.6 | 22 Mar |
Eco Animal Health ord 5p | 4 | 12 Apr |
Gordon Dadds | 2 | 10 Apr |
Hargreaves Services 10p | 2.7 | 8 Apr |
Ideagen ord £0.01 | 0.09 | 20 Mar |
Micro Focus International 10p | 45.22 | 5 Apr |
Murray Income Trust ord 25p | 8 | 29 Mar |
Oxford Instruments ord 5p | 3.8 | 8 Apr |
Park ord 2p | 1.05 | 8 Apr |
Shoe Zone ord 1p | 8 | 20 Mar |
Shoe Zone ord 1p (special) | 8 | 20 Mar |
SSP | 5.4 | 29 mar |
Sureserve | 0.25 | 30 Apr |
Witan Investment Co ord 25p | 7.75 | 21 Mar |
WYG ord 10p | 0.6 | 4 Apr |
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.
