A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
Tom Dines
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 22 April
UK bank holiday – nothing scheduled
Tuesday 23 April
Trading statements: Novolipetsk Steel
AGMs: ECR Minerals, Franchise Brands, Global Data, Polymetal International
Companies paying dividends: Brooks Macdonald (19p), Hansard Global (1.8p), XP Power (33p)
Wednesday 24 April
Interims: AB Dynamics, Associated British Foods, Maxcyte, Puretech Health
Finals: Boohoo.com, Petropavlovsk, Wandisco
Trading statements: Croda
AGMs: AIB, Biome Technologies, Croda, Glanbia, RTC, Science Group, Spaceandpeople, Sthree, Tribal
Economics: Public sector finances
Companies paying dividends: Close Brothers (22p), Shore Capital (5p)
Thursday 25 April
Interims: RDI REIT
Finals: Deltex Medical
AGMs: Access Intelligence, Admiral, Aggreko, Alliance Trust, Avesoro Resources, British American Tobacco, CLS, Cobham, CRH, Devro, FDM, Greencoat Renewables, Jarvis Securities, LightwaveRF, Meggitt, RELX, RIT Capital Partners, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sterling Energy, Synectics, Synthomer, Taylor Wimpey, Tern, Tullow Oil
Trading statements: Acacia Mining, Barclays
Economics: Total orders, Selling prices, Business optimism
Companies paying dividends: Domino's Pizza (5.45p), Oakley Capital Investments (2.25p), Spaceandpeople (0.5p)
Friday 26 April
Final: EU Supply
AGMs: Alfa Financial Software, AstraZeneca, Greencoat UK Wind, Senior
Trading statements: AJ Bell, AstraZeneca, Pearson, Rotork, Royal Bank of Scotland, WPP
Economics: Housing loans, Reported sales
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.95p), Alpha Real Estate Trust (5.682p), Finsbury Food (1.16p), Glanbia (12.6p), Globaldata (7.5p), Henderson Eurotrust (8p), Henderson High Income Trust (2.425p), Real Estate Investors (0.937p), Shires Income (3p), Smiths (14.1p), Somero (10.45p), Somero (special – 9p), SQN Asset Finance Income Fund (0.6042p), SQN Secured Income (0.583p), SSP (special – 32.1p), Troy Income & Growth Trust (0.685p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 25 April
| Name | Rate | Pay Date |
| Antofagasta ord 5p | 28.03 | 24 May |
| Arbuthnot Banking ord 1p | 20 | 17 May |
| Bankers Investment Trust ord 25p | 5.1 | 31 May |
| Boot (Henry) & Sons ord 10p | 5.8 | 29 May |
| Cello Health | 2.75 | 24 May |
| Central Asia Metals | 8 | 20 May |
| Charles Taylor | 8.08 | 24 May |
| Churchill China ord 10p | 20.3 | 24 May |
| City of London Investment Trust | 4.75 | 31 May |
| Clarke (T) ord 10p | 3.34 | 24 May |
| Curtis Banks | 6 | 23 May |
| Dunedin Enterprise Inv Tst ord 25p | 2 | 16 May |
| Essentra | 14.4 | 3 Jun |
| Eurocell | 6.2 | 22 May |
| Fevertree Drinks | 10.28 | 31 May |
| Fresnillo ord $0.50 | 12.95 | 24 May |
| Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust | 2 | 29 May |
| Glencore | 7.75 | 23 May |
| Greggs ord 20p | 25 | 30 May |
| Gresham House 25p | 3 | 31 May |
| Harwood Wealth Management | 2.42 | 10 May |
| Hunters Property | 1.6 | 22 May |
| Impax Environmental Markets | 3p | 28 May |
| Informa ord 10p | 14.85 | 31 May |
| IWG | 4.35 | 24 May |
| Legal & General ord 2.5p | 11.82 | 6 Jun |
| Lookers ord 25p | 2.6 | 5 Jun |
| M Winkworth ord 0.05p | 1.85 | 23 May |
| Marshall Motor | 6.39 | 24 May |
| McBride ord 10p | 1.5 | 31 May |
| McColl's Retail Group | 0.6 | 6 Jun |
| Meggitt ord 5p | 11.35 | 3 May |
| Mobeus Income & Growth 4 VCT | 4 | 28 May |
| Mobeus Income & Growth VCT | 5 | 17 May |
| Morgan Sindall | 34 | 20 May |
| Mortgage Advice Bureau | 12.7 | 24 May |
| Nahl | 5.7 | 31 May |
| Petrofac ord $0.025 | 19.6 | 24 May |
| Portmeirion ord 5p | 29.5 | 30 May |
| PPHE Hotel | 19 | 20 May |
| Quilter ord 0.07p | 3.3 | 20 May |
| Rolls-Royce ord 20p | 7.1 | 4 Jul |
| Sabre Insurance | 6.8 | 30 May |
| Sabre Insurance | 6 | 30 May |
| Sanne | 9.2p | 21 May |
| Science Group | 4.6 | 17 May |
| SDL ord 1p | 7 | 10 Jun |
| Secure Trust Bank | 64p | 24 May |
| Smart Metering Systems | 3.98 | 5 Jun |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering ord 25p | 71 | 24 May |
| Statpro ord 1p | 2.05 | 29 May |
| SThree ord 1p | 9.8 | 7 Jun |
| TI Fluid Systems | 5.08 | 31 May |
| Total Produce €0.01 | 2.514 | 9 Jun |
| Tracsis | 0.8 | 3 May |
| TT Electronics ord 25p | 4.55 | 17 May |
| Weir ord 2.5p | 30.45 | 6 Jun |
| William Hill ord 10p | 7.74 | 6 Jun |
| Wood (John) ord 3.33p | 17.95 | 16 May |
| Zotefoams ord 5p | 4.15 | 20 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.
