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 6 May
Bank holiday - no announcements scheduled
Tuesday 7 May
Final: Faron Pharmaceuticals
Trading statements: Domino’s Pizza, Verona Pharma
AGMs: 4imprint, Costain, Kape Technologies, SDL, The Renewables Infrastructure Group,Verona Pharma, Vivo Energy
Economics: Halifax house prices, New car registrations, BRC sales
Companies paying dividends: Barratt Deveopments (9.6p), LSL Property Services (6.9p), Mercantile Investment Trust (2.55p), Phoenix Group (23.4p), Supermarket Income REIT (1.419p), Synectics (3.5p)
Wednesday 8 May
Interims: Elegant Hotels, Imperial Brands
Finals: Keystone Law, Vertu Motors
Trading statements: Direct Line, ITV, Travis Perkins
AGMs: Caledonia Mining, Cello Health, Charles Taylor, EMIS, GlaxoSmithKline, Grafton, Independent Oil & Gas, Indivior, ITV, Johnson Service Group, Morgan Sindall, Rentokil Initial, Savills, SIG, Standard Chartered, Team17, Ten Entertainment, Travis Perkins
Economics: House price balance
Companies paying dividends: British American Tobacco (50.75p), Caretech (7.5p), F&C Investment Trust (2.8p), Smith & Nephew (17p)
Thursday 9 May
Interim: Cambria Automobiles
Finals: Air Partner, BT Group
Trading statements: Barratt Developments, Derwent, IMI, Mondi, National Express, Onesavings Bank, Rathbone Brothers, RSA Insurance, Superdry, WM Morrison
AGM: Arbuthnot, BAE Systems, Clarkson, Convatec, Direct Line, Elecosoft, Glencore, Huntsworth, IMI, John Laing, John Wood, Mondi, Moneysupermarket.com, National Express, One Savings Bank, Petards, Rathbone Brothers, Reckitt Benckiser, Serco, TomCo Energy, TT Electronics, Tyman, Unite
Companies paying dividends: Schroders (79p), SCS Group (5.5p) Ultra Electronics (37p)
Friday 10 May
Trading statements: International Consolidated Airlines, Millenium & Copthorne Hotels
AGMs: Alpha FX, BBA Aviation, Eurocell, FBD, Man Group, Millenium & Copthorne Hotels, Rightmove, RSA Insurance, T Clarke, Transglobe Energy
Economics: Trade balance, Government spending, Industrial production, Manufacturing production, Imports, Exports, Construction output, GDP, Total business investment, Index of services
Companies paying dividends: Blackrock Mining Trust (9p), Devro (6.3p), Drax (8.5p), Harwood Wealth Management (2.42p), Hunting (3.88p), International Personal Finance (7.8p), James Fisher & Sons (21.3p), Johnson Service Group (2.1p), JP Morgan Multi-Asset Trust (1p), Kerry Group (42.23p), Kin and Carta (0.65p), Kingspan (26p), Lighthouse (0.5p), Pearson (13p), Photo-Me International (3.71p), Quixant (3.1p), RSA Insurance (13.7p), Scottish Investment Trust (5.3p), Smurfit Kappa (63.39p), Softcat (4.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 9 May
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| AA | 1.4 | 17 Jun |
| Admiral Group Ord 0.1p | 66 | 31 May |
| Barr (AG) Ord 25p | 12.74 | 7 Jun |
| British Smaller Companies VCT Ord 10p | 4 | 12 Jun |
| Card Factory | 6.4 | 18 Jun |
| Centaur Media Ord 10p | 1.5 | 24 May |
| Centrica Ord 5 5/9p | 8.4 | 27 Jun |
| Drum Income Plus Reit | 1.5 | 24 May |
| Eddie Stobart Logistics | 4.76 | 7 Jun |
| Ediston Property Investment Company | 0.479 | 31 May |
| Empresaria Ord 5p | 2 | 31 May |
| Epwin Group | 3.2 | 3 Jun |
| Foresight Solar Fund | 1.65 | 24 May |
| Gocompare.com Group | 0.8 | 28 May |
| Hiscox Ord 5p | 22.17 | 12 Jun |
| Hostelworld Group | 9 | 5 Jun |
| Ibstock Ord 1p | 6.5 | 7 Jun |
| James Halstead Group Ord 5p | 4 | 6 Jun |
| Ocean Wilsons Holdings Ord 20p | 53 | 7 Jun |
| Reach | 3.77 | 7 Jun |
| Robert Walters Ord 20p | 10.7 | 3 Jun |
| RTC Group | 2.55 | 7 Jun |
| Share Ord 0.5p | 0.55 | 12 Jun |
| Smart (J) Contractors Ord 2p | 0.95 | 3 Jun |
| Soco International Ord 5p | 5.5 | 31 May |
| Strix Group | 4.7 | 3 Jun |
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.
