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 13 May
Finals: Angling Direct, CentralNic
Interims: Diploma, Victrex
Trading statements: Centrica, Dignity
AGMs: Anglo Pacific, Centrica, Maintel
Companies paying dividends: Centamin (2.33p), EMIS (14.2p), Northamber (0.1p), Savills (10.8p), Savills (special – 15.6p)
Tuesday 14 May
Finals: Braemar Shipping, Great Eastern Energy, Land Securities, Premier Foods, Vodafone
Interims: EI, ITE, On The Beach, Stock Spirits
AGMs: Bank of Cyprus, Bank of Ireland, Capita, Chesnara, IGas, Impact Healthcare REIT, IWG, Michelmersh Brick, Microsaic Systems, Permanent TSB, St James’s Place, Standard Life Aberdeen
Economics: Jobs data, average earnings
Companies paying dividends: InterContinental Hotels (60p), National Express (10.17p)
Wednesday 15 May
Finals: British Land, Experian, Speedy Hire, Stobart Group
Interims: Brewin Dolphin, Compass, CYBG, Marstons, Sanderson, Ten Lifestyle
Trading statements: JPJ, Kingfisher, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Ten Lifestyle, William Hill
AGMs: Be Heard, Cenkos, Charter Court Financial Services, Cineworld, Jupiter Fund Management, Marshalls, Miton, Playtech, Rockhopper Exploration, Secure Trust Bank, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, TP Icap, Tritax Big Box REIT, Vesuvius, William Hill
EGM: Starwood European Real Estate Finance
Companies paying dividends: 4imprint (37.3p), AlphaFX (4.6p), Dairy Farm International (11.24p), OneSavings Bank (10.3p), Rentokil Initial (3.16p)
Thursday 16 May
Interims: Countryside Properties, Euromoney Institutional Investors, Grainger, Thomas Cook
Final: 3i, Burberry, National Grid, Wincanton
Trading statements: Balfour Beatty, Just, Keller, Premier Oil
AGM: Balfour Beatty, Belvoir, Capital & Regional, Computacenter, G4S, Genel Energy, Great Western Mining Corporation, Gresham House, Hill & Smith, Just, Keller, Lloyds Banking, Merchants Trust, Next, One Media IP, Oriole Resources, Premier Oil, Prudential, Quilter, Safestyle, Sanne, Seplat Petroleum Development, Serinus Energy, Spire Healthcare, TI Fluid Systems, Worldpay
Companies paying dividends: Capital & Counties Properties (1p), Direct Line (14p), Direct Line (special – 8.3p), DP Aircraft (1.75p), Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust (2p), Equiniti (3.49p), Finsbury Growth & Income Trust (8p), Gresham Technologies (0.5p), Maintel (19.5p), Merlin Entertainment (5.5p), Mondi (46.62p), Moneysupermarket.com (8.1p), Standard Chartered (11.63p), Wood Group (17.95p)
Friday 17 May
Interims: Easyjet, Future, Sage
Trading statements: Hikma Pharmaceuticals
AGMs: Bango, Bank of Georgia, Cairn Energy, John Menzies, Real Estate Investors, Restaurant Group, Robert Walters
Companies paying dividends: AB Dynamics (1.612p), Arbuthnot Banking (20p), Costain (10p), FBD (42.75p), Hansteen (3.8p), IMI (26p), Invesco Perpetual Select Trust Global Equity (2.1p), Invesco Perpetual Select Global Equity (2.4p), John Laing (3.6p), John Laing (special – 4.1p), Kier (4.9p), Man (4.06p), Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (2.15p), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (5p), Murray International Trust (17p), Prudential (33.68p) RPS (5.08p), Science (4.6p), Taylor Wimpey (3.8p), Travis Perkins (31.5p), TT Electronics (4.55p), Unite (19.5p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 16 May
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Anglo Pacific Group ord 10p | 3.125 | 30 May |
| Aptitude Software | 4.4 | 30 May |
| Ascential | 3.9 | 14 Jun |
| Balfour Beatty ord 50p | 3.2 | 5 Jul |
| Clarkson ord 25p | 51 | 31 May |
| Dignity ord 9p | 15.74 | 28 Jun |
| F&C Commercial Property Trust | 0.5 | 31 May |
| Fidelity Special Values ord 5p | 2.1 | 26 Jun |
| Impact Health | 1.5425 | 7 Jun |
| Inchcape ord 25p | 17.9 | 21 Jun |
| Integrated Diagnostics ord US$ | 17.6 | 7 Jun |
| Intertek ord 1p | 67.2 | 4 Jun |
| Irish Continental UTS ord | 8.56 | 7 Jun |
| K3 Business Tech ord 25p | 1.54 | 14 Jun |
| Macfarlane ord 25p | 1.65 | 6 Jun |
| Midwich | 10.6 | 21 Jun |
| North American Income ord 25p | 18 | 7 Jun |
| P2P Global Investments | 12 | 14 Jun |
| PageGroup | 9 | 17 Jun |
| Polyus Gold International | 2.22 | 16 Jun |
| Randall & Quilter Inv ord 2p | 5.6 | 31 May |
| Robinson ord 0.5p | 3 | 3 Jun |
| Royal Dutch Shell 'B' ord €0.07 | 36.29 | 24 Jun |
| Royal Dutch Shell 'A' Ord €0.07 | 37 | 24 Jun |
| Saga ord 1p | 1 | 28 Jun |
| Tandem ord 4p | 2.89 | 3 Jul |
| Ted Baker o rd 5p | 40.7 | 22 Jun |
| UK Commercial Property REIT | 0.92 | 31 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.
