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Week Ahead: 20-24 May

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
May 16, 2019

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 20 May

Finals: LXI REIT, McKay Securities

Interims: Cerillion

AGMs: City Pub Group, Cloudcall, Forterra, Foxtons, Keywords Studios, Volga Gas

Companies paying dividends: Central Asia Metals (8p), Franchise Brands (0.36p), Melrose Industries (3.05p), Morgan Sindall (34p), PPHE Hotel (19p), Quilter (3.3p), Zotefoams (4.15p)

 

Tuesday 21 May

Finals: Assura, Big Yellow, Bloomsbury Publishing, Cranswick, Electrocomponents, First Derivatives, Halfords, Homeserve, Immedia, Scapa, Severn Trent, Warehouse REIT

Interims: APC Technology, Nexus Infrastructure, Renew, Topps Tiles, UDG Healthcare, Shaftesbury

Trading statements: Galliford Try, Greggs, Provident Financial, WH Smith

AGMs: Accesso Technology, BP, Corero Network Security, Epwin, Fresnillo, Greggs, Harworth, Hilton Food, Lamprell, Marshall Motor, Nahl, Provident Financial, Restore, Riverstone Energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Vitec, Warpaint

Economics: CBI trends – orders and prices

Companies paying dividends: Holders Technology (0.5p), Lloyds Banking (2.14p), Miton (2p), Moneysupermarket.com (7.46p), Paddy Power Betfair (133p), Standard Life Aberdeen (14.3p), TP Icap (11.25p)

 

Wednesday 22 May

Finals: Babcock, Great Portland Estates, HICL Infrastructure, Intermediate Capital, Marks and Spencer, Pets at Home, Royal Mail, SSE, U+I,

Interims: Britvic, Ixico, Paragon Banking

Trading statements: Close Brothers, IG

AGMs: Antofagasta, Boku, Bovis Homes, Deltex Medical, Gamma Communications, Georgia Healthcare, Judges Scientific, Medica, Motif Bio, Property Franchise, Safecharge, Sound Energy

Economics: Consumer prices, Retail prices, Producer prices. House prices, Public finances, Public sector borrowing

Companies paying dividends: Airea (2p), Charter Court Financial Services (9.9p), Hikma Pharmaceutical (20p), Hunters Property (1.6p), Rotork (3.7p)

 

Thursday 23 May

Interims: AJ Bell, Hollywood Bowl, Mitchells & Butlers

Final: Dairy Crest, Helical, Mediclinic International, Mothercare, NewRiver REIT, Paypoint, Qinetiq, Talktalk Telecom, Tate & Lyle, United Utilities

Trading statements: Coats, Essentra, Intertek, Regional REIT, Tungsten Corporation

AGM: Acacia Mining, Alliance Pharma, Avast, Aviva, Bakkavor, Cambridge Cognition, Coats, Enquest, Essentra, Gocompare, GYG, Hastings, Henry Boot, Hydrogen, Ibstock, Inchcape, Intelligent Ultrasound, Intertek, JKX Oil & Gas, Legal and General, Manx Financial, Nucleus Financial, Pebble Beach Systems, Polypipe, Regional REIT, Sabre Insurance, Secure Income REIT, Shefa Yamim, Statpro, Strix

Companies paying dividends: Capital & Regional Properties (0.6p), City Merchants High Yield Trust (2.5p), Curtis Banks (6p), Glencore (7.75p), ITV (5.4p), M Winkworth (1.9p), Reckitt Benckiser (100.2p)

 

Friday 24 May

Finals: Urban Logistics, Volvere

AGMs: Bodycote, Fevertree, Headlam, Informa, Luceco, Old Mutual, PageGroup, Spectris, Yew Grove REIT

Economics: Retail sales, CBI – sales

Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.25p), Aggreko (17.74p), Antofagasta (28.03p), Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), BBA Aviation (7.81p), Bovis Homes (38p), Cello Health (2.75p), Centaur Media (1.5p), Churchill China (20.3p), T Clarke (3.34p), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (1.26p), Drum Income (1.5p), EP Global Opportunities (5.5p) EP Global Opportunities (special – 1p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.65p), Fresnillo (12.95p), Investment Co (3.75p), IWG (4.35p), Marshall Motor (6.39p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (1.29p), Morgan Advanced Materials (7p), Mortgage Advice Bureau (12.7p), NewRiver REIT (5.4p), NMCN (12p), Petrofac (19.6p), Primary Health Properties (1.4p), Rosenblatt (2.8p), Safecharge International (7.22p), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (71p), SQN Secured Income (0.583p), St James's Place Capital (29.73p), Swallowfield (2.15p), Tyman (8.25p), Vesuvius (13.8p), Vitec (25.5p)

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 23 May

CompanyDividend (p)Payment
Advanced Medical Solutions ord 10p0.914 Jun
Avingtrans ord 5p1.414 Jun
Bellway ord 12.5p50.44 Jul
BlackRock North American Inc228 Jun
Bunzl ord 32 1/7p351 Jul
Burford Capital6.5514 Jun
Carnival ord $1.6638.7614 Jun
Coca-Cola European Partners53.56 Jun
Elegant Hotels1.3328 Jun
FDM ord 1p15.56 Mar
Hill & Smith ord 25p21.81 Jul
Howden Joinery7.921 Jun
Huntsworth ord 10p1.64 Jul
Imperial Brands31.2828 Jun
JPM Elect Managed Growth 0.01p4.4521 Jun
JPM Elect Managed Income 0.003p1.121 Jun
Menzies (John) ord 25p14.51 Jul
Michelmersh Brick ord2.1428 Jun
Mincon0.921 Jun
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets ord 10p41 Jul
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets ord 10p4.751 Jul
Provident Financial ord 10 4/11p1021 Jun
RA International13 Jul
Spectris ord 5p40.528 Jun
Tarsus ord 5p7.75 Jul
Ten Entertainment7.74 Jul
The Gym Group0.9514 Jun
Town Centre Securities ord 25p3.2521 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.