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 March
Interims: Volution
Finals: Gama Aviation, Maintel Holdings, Miton Group, Restore
EGM: Gaming Realms
Economics: Rightmove house prices
Tuesday 19 March
Interims: ScS Group, Softcat
Finals: Applegreen, Antofagasta, Bango, ECSC, Elecosoft, Gym Group, John Wood, JPJ Group, Judges Scientific, Kape Technologies, Learning Technologies, Mears, Mortgage Advice Bureau, NAHL, Ocean Outdoor, Polypipe, Team17 Group, TP ICAP, Tribal Group, Zotefoams
Trading statements: ASOS, Ocado
AGMs: Blue Prism, Sureserve
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings, CBI trends – total orders, selling prices
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Income & Growth Investment Trust (4.4p), CC Japan Income & Growth Trust (2.5p)
Wednesday 20 March
Interim: Kier
Finals: Centaur Media, cloudBuy, Curtis Banks, Eland Oil & Gas, EMIS, Emperic Student Property, Frontier Smart Technologies, Genel Energy, IQE, Kingfisher, SDL, SiS Science in Sport, TEN Entertainment, TI Fluid Systems
AGMs: Arden Partners, Safestore Holdings
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Ideagen (0.09p), JPM Elect Managed Income (1.1p), Shoe Zone (8p), Shoe Zone (special) (8p), Unilever (33.61p)
Thursday 21 March
Interim: GAME Digital
Finals: Cambridge Cognition Holdings, Cello Health, Energean Oil & Gas, EnQuest, FW Thorpe, Integrated Diagnostics, Lamprell, LoopUp Group, Next, Portmeirion Group, Robinson, SafeStyle, Sopheon, Sportech, Ted Baker, Venture Life, Xaar
Trading statements: IG Group, Mitie
AGMs: Beazley, Chemring, LPA Group
Economics: Public sector borrowing, Retail sales, Bank of England base rate announcement, corporate bond, asset purchase target
Companies paying dividends: Springfield Properties (1.2p), Treatt (3.5p), Witan Investment Company (7.75p)
Friday 22 March
Interim: Smiths Group
Finals: Henry Boot, Sanne Group
AGM: Toople
Companies going ex-dividend on 21 March
Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
Athelney Trust Ord 25p | 9.1 | 18 Apr |
BlackRock World Mining Trust | 9 | 10 May |
British American Tobacco Ord 25p | 50.75 | 8 May |
Clinigen Group | 1.95 | 12 Apr |
Crest Nicholson Ord 5p | 21.8 | 18 Apr |
Croma Security Solutions Group | 0.7 | 8 Apr |
Globaldata Ord 1/14p | 7.5 | 26 Apr |
Hammerson Ord 25p | 14.8 | 2 May |
Haynes Publishing Group Ord 20p | 3.5 | 17 Apr |
Heavitree Brewery | 4.25 | 18 Apr |
LSL Property Services Ord 0.2p | 6.9 | 7 May |
Meggitt | 11.35 | 3 May |
Nichols Ord 10p | 26.8 | 3 May |
NWF Group Ord 25p | 1 | 1 May |
PCF Group | 0.3 | 12 Apr |
Phoenix Group Holdings | 23.4 | 7 May |
Royal Bank of Scotland Ord 25p | 3.5 | 30 Apr |
Royal Bank of Scotland Ord 25p (special) | 7.5 | 30 Apr |
SEGRO | 13.25 | 2 May |
Standard Life Private Equity Trust | 3.2p | 26 Apr |
XP Power Ord 1p | 33 | 23 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.
