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 March
Interim: River & Mercantile
Finals: Clarkson, Hutchison China Meditech, Microsaic Systems, Old Mutual
EGMs: Deepmatter Group, Vast Resources
Company paying dividends: GCP Student Living (1.53p)
Tuesday 12 March
Interims: Close Brothers, PureCircle
Finals: 888 Holdings, Cairn Energy, Comptacenter, Domino’s Pizza, Equiniti, Forterra, G4S, Gamma Communications, Goals Soccer Centres, Gresham Technologies, H&T Group, John Menzies, Midwich Group, Non-Standard Finance, Pendragon, Pennant International, Quilter, Surgical Innovations, TCS Group
AGMs: REACT Group, Starvest
EGM: Haydale Graphene Industries
Economics: Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, Construction output, GDP, Index of services
Wednesday 13 March
Finals: Advanced Medical Solutions, Avast, Balfour Beatty, Burford Capital, Charles Taylor, Dignity, Empresaria, Franchise Brands, Gem Diamonds, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Lookers, Manx Telecom, Marshall Motor Holdings, Provident Financial, Prudential, SafeCharge International, SigmaRoc, Standard Life Aberdeen, StatPro, William Morrison Supermarkets
EGM: Coro Energy
Thursday 14 March
Interims: Brooks Macdonald, DFS Furniture, Kin & Carta, Range Resources
Finals: Capita, Capital & Regional, Cineworld, Just Group, Marshalls, OneSavings Bank, Oxford Biomedica, Savills
AGMs: Benchmark Holdings, Oxford BioDynamics
EGM: Savannah Petroleum
Economics: RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: Quiz (0.4p), Rank Group (2.15p), TheWorks.co.uk (1.2p)
Friday 15 March
Interim: JD Wetherspoon
Finals: Eurocell, Restaurant Group
EGMs: Interserve, Tax Systems
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust (4.9p), Avon Rubber (10.68p), Carnival (38.75p), European Assets Trust (1.7499p), Finncap (0.148p), Gateley Holdings (2.6p), Invesco Income Growth Trust (2.45p), JPM Russian Securities (6p), Knights Group Holdings (0.6p), Motorpoint (2.5p), SSE (29.3p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 14 March
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Acorn Income Fund | 5.2 | 29 Mar |
AdEPT Technology Group | 4.875 | 8 Apr |
Anglo American Ord 54.945c | 39.53 | 3 May |
Colefax Ord 10p | 2.5 | 10 Apr |
CRH Ord Eur0.32 | 44.78 | 30 Apr |
DAIRY FARM INTERNATIONAL HLDGS ORD US$5 | 11.24 | 15 May |
Dunelm Group Ord 1p | 7.5 | 12 Apr |
Electra Private Equity Ord 25p | 54 | 12 Apr |
Galliford Try Ord 50p | 23 | 10 Apr |
Glanbia | 12.6 | 36 Apr |
JPM Mid Cap Inv Tst Ord 25p | 8 | 17 Apr |
Land Securities Group Ord 10 2/3 p | 11.3 | 12 Apr |
Law Debenture Corp Ord 25p | 12.9 | 18 Apr |
London Finance & Investment Grp.5p | 0.55 | 5 Apr |
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Ord 30p | 2.15 | 17 May |
Mucklow (A & J) Ord 25p | 5.24 | 15 Apr |
Ricardo Group Ord 25p | 6 | 8 Apr |
Rights & Issues Inv Tst Inc 25p | 21 | 4 Apr |
RM Ord 2p | 5.7 | 12 Apr |
Standard Life UK Small Cos Tst | 1.6 | 4 Apr |
TR European Growth Trust Ord 12.5p | 7.5 | 12 Apr |
Trifast Ord 5p | 1.2 | 11 Apr |
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust Ord | 1.8 | 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.
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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.
