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 1 April
AGM: Big Sofa Technologies
EGM: Transense Technologies
Economics: Markit UK PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Alliance Trust (3.389p), Green REIT (2.43p)
Tuesday 2 April
Interim: YouGov
Finals: Belvoir Lettings, Hydrogen, MP Evans, Nucleus Financial, Proteome Sciences, TP, Trinity Exploration & Production
EGM: Superdry
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK construction, BRC shop price index
Companies paying dividends: Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (2.19p), JPMorgan Global Convertibles Income (1.125p)
Wednesday 3 April
Interim: Gattaca
Finals: AA, JTC, Minds & Machines, M Winkworth
Trading statements: CMC Markets, Topps Tiles
AGM: McColl’s Retail
Economics: Markit/CIPS UK services, composite PMI, Official reserves
Thursday 4 April
Finals: Hunters Property, Saga
AGM: Keras Resources
Companies paying dividends: Ashmore (4.55p), Genus (8.9p), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (21p), South32 (3.95p), South32 (special) (1.32p), St Modwen Properties (4p), Standard Life UK Small Companies Trust (1.6p), TOC Property Backed Lending Trust (1.5p), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (2p), WYG (0.6p)
Friday 5 April
Final: esure
AGMs: Low & Bonar, Tekcapital
Economics: Unit labour costs
Companies paying dividends: Apax Global Alpha (4.12p), Barclays (4p), Brunner Investment Trust (6p), Gleeson (MJ) (11.5p), Grafton (12p), Grit Real Estate Income (5.25p), London Finance & Investment (0.55p), Micro Focus International (45.22p), Pennon (12.84p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 4 April
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| 1PM ord 0.0006818 | 0.28 | 1 May |
| 4imprint ord 38 6/13p | 37.3 | 15 May |
| Abbet ord EUR0.32 | 8 | 30 Apr |
| Amino Technologies Ord 1p | 5.682 | 26 Apr |
| BMO UK High Income Trust | 1.29 | 3 May |
| Capital & Regional Properties ord 10p | 0.6 | 23 May |
| Chemring ord 5p | 2.2 | 18 Apr |
| CLS ord 2.5p | 4.7 | 29 Apr |
| ConvaTec | 3.01 | 16 May |
| DS Smith ord 10p | 5.25 | 1 May |
| Direct Line Insurance ord 10p | 14 | 16 May |
| Direct Line Insurance ord 10p (special) | 8.3 | 16 May |
| Duke Royalty | 0.7 | 17 Apr |
| F&C Investment Trust | 2.8 | 8 May |
| Finsbury Food ord 1p | 1.16 | 26 Apr |
| Finsbury Growth & Income Trust ord 25p | 8 | 16 May |
| Fisher (James) & Sons ord 25p | 21.3 | 10 May |
| Henderson High Income Trust | 2.425 | 26 Apr |
| Hikma Pharmaceutical | 20 | 22 May |
| IMI ord 25p | 26 | 17 may |
| Invesco Enhanced Inc | 1.25 | 30 Apr |
| Lighthouse ord 1p | 0.5 | 10 May |
| Lloyds Banking | 2.14 | 21 May |
| Man | 4.06 | 17 May |
| Manchester & London Inv Tst ord 25p | 6 | 30 Apr |
| Melrose Industries 48/7p | 3.05 | 20 May |
| Moneysupermarket.com ord O.02p | 8.1 | 16 May |
| Murray International Trust ord 25p | 17 | 17 May |
| Oakley Capital Investments ord 1p | 2.25 | 25 Apr |
| Pearson ord 25p | 13 | 10 May |
| Photo-Me International ord 0.5p | 3.71 | 10 May |
| Quartix | 6.2 | 3 May |
| Quartix | 3.8 | 3 May |
| RIT Capital Partners ord £1 | 17 | 30 Apr |
| Seneca Growth Capital VCT | 1.5 | 19 Apr |
| Shires Income ord 50p | 3 | 26 Apr |
| Shore Capital | 5 | 24 Apr |
| Smith & Nephew ord 20¢ | 17 | 8 May |
| Softcat ord 0.0005p | 4.5 | 10 May |
| Somero Enterprises Inc Com Stk US$0.001 | 10.45 | 26 Apr |
| Somero Enterprises Inc Com Stk US$0.001 (special) | 9 | 26 Apr |
| SQN Asset Finance Income Fund | 0.6042 | 26 Apr |
| St James's Place Capital ord 15p | 29.73 | 24 May |
| Synectics | 3.5 | 7 May |
| Taylor Wimpey ord 25p | 3.8 | 17 May |
| TP ICAP | 11.25 | 21 May |
| Travis Perkins ord 10p | 31.5 | 17 May |
| Troy Income & Growth Trust | 0.685 | 26 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.
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.
