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 15 April
Interim: Carr’s Group
Finals: Filta Group, Mobile Tornado Group
Trading statement: Petra Diamonds
Companies paying dividends: Driver Group (0.5p), Mucklow (A&J) (5.24p)
Tuesday 16 April
Finals: ASA International, Card Factory, Flowtech Fluidpower, JD Sports Fashion, Parity Group, Telit Communications
Trading statements: BHP, Hays, Rio Tinto
AGMs: cloudBuy, Eland Oil & Gas, Quixant, XP Power
Economics: Employment data, Average earnings
Wednesday 17 April
Trading statement: Bunzl, Mediclinic, Segro
AGMs: Bunzl, Dialight, Diversified Gas & Oil, Drax, Harwood Wealth Management, Hunting
EGM: Diversified Gas & Oil
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Assura (0.685p), Duke Royalty (0.7p), Haynes Publishing (3.5p), Hotel Chocolat (0.6p), JPM Mid Cap Investment Trust (8p), London Metric Property (1.9p)
Thursday 18 April
Final: Modern Water
Trading statements: Reckitt Benckiser, Rentokil Initial, Unilever
AGMs: Domino’s Pizza, Segro
EGMs: RPC Group, UK Commercial Property REIT
Economics: Retail sales, CBI trends-selling prices, total orders
Companies paying dividends: Athelney Trust (9.1p), BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust (1p), Chemring (2.2p), Crest Nicholson (21.8p), JPM Emerging Markets Investment Trust (5p), JPM Global Emerging Markets Income Trust (1p), Law Debenture Corp (12.9p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), Rio Tinto (135.96p), Rio Tinto (special) (183.55p), Securities Trust of Scotland (1.45p), Seneca Growth Capital VCT (1.5p), Transglobe Energy Corporation (3.5p)
Friday 19 April
UK Bank holiday – nothing scheduled
Companies going ex-dividend on 18 April
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Aggreko Group Ord 20p | 17.74 | 24 May |
BAE Systems Ord 2.5p | 13.2 | 3 Jun |
Bodycote (special) | 20 | 7 Jun |
Bodycote | 13.2 | 7 Jun |
Capital & Counties Properties ORD 25p | 1 | 16 May |
Centamin Plc | 2.33 | 13 May |
City Merchants HIgh Yield Trust | 2.5 | 23 May |
Drax Group Ord 11 16/29p | 8.5 | 10 May |
Hastings Group Hldgs 2p | 9 | 31 May |
Hunting Ord 25p | 3.88 | 10 May |
Hydro Hotel (Eastbourne) Ord £1 | 14 | 2 May |
Inmarsat Ord €0.0005 | 9.25 | 30 May |
John Laing Group (special) | 4.1 | 17 May |
John Laing Group | 3.6 | 17 May |
Kaz Minerals | 4.58 | 17 May |
M.P. Evans Group 10p | 12.75 | 21 Jun |
National Express Group Ord 5p | 10.17 | 14 May |
Pendragon Ord 5p | 0.7 | 30 May |
Polypipe Group | 7.9 | 29 May |
Quixant | 3.1 | 10 May |
Rathbone Brothers | 42 | 14 May |
Reckitt Benckiser Ord 10 10/19p | 100.2 | 23 May |
RPS Group Ord 3p | 5.08 | 17 May |
SCS Group | 5.5 | 9 May |
Stilo International Ord 10p | 0.06 | 30 May |
Tyman Ord 5p | 8.25 | 24 May |
Vesuvius | 13.8 | 24 May |
Vitec Group Ord 20p | 25.5 | 24 May |
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.
