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 9 September
Interims: Blackbird, Diaceutics, Filta
Finals: Abcam, Duke Royalty
Trading statements: Associated British Foods
AGMs: Anglo African Oil & Gas, Appscatter, First Property, Totally
EGM: Breedon
Economics: GDP, Industrial production, Manufacturing production, Construction output, Index of Services, Trade balance
Companies paying dividends: Astrazeneca (71.9p), BT (10.78p), GCP Student Living (1.56p), Hadrians Wall Secured Investment (1.5p), Tritax Eurobox (0.92p)
Tuesday 10 September
Interims: 888, Anexo, Ashtead, Boku, Bovis Homes, Cairn Energy, Concurrent Technologies, EKF Diagnostics, Gulf Keystone Petroleum, Harworth, Hilton Food, Integrated Diagnostics, IP, JD Sports Fashion, Midwich, Nucleus Financial, Petropavlovsk, Regional Reit, Sanne, Team17, The Simplybiz Group, TP, Trinity Exploration & Production, Urban Exposure, Vectura, Xaar
Trading statement: Ashtead
AGMs: Ashtead, Mirada
Economics: Employment data, Weekly earnings
Wednesday 11 September
Interims: Advanced Medical Solutions, Anpario, DP Eurasia, ECSC, Epwin, Futura Medical, Gulf Marine Services, S4 Capital
Final: Galliford Try
AGMs: Best of The Best, Consort Medical, IG Design, Sports Direct, Staffline, Superdry, Tricorn
Economics: House prices
Companies paying dividends: Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (4.09p), Hiscox (11p), Rentokil Initial (1.51p), Unilever (36.82p)
Thursday 12 September
Interims: Greencoat Renewables, IGas Energy, Medica, Silence Therapeutics, Wm Morrison Supermarkets
Finals: Brooks Macdonald, Haynes Publishing
Trading statement: Safestore
AGMs: Providence Resources, Reneuron, Scancell, Trident Resources, WH Ireland, XPS Pensions
Friday 13 September
Final: JD Wetherspoon
Trading statement: SThree
Companies paying dividends: Apax Global Alpha (4.86p), Ashtead (33.5p), Berkeley (20.82p), Carnival (38.75p), Chemring (1.2p), CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities (0.1375p), D4t4 Solutions (2.3p), Greene King (24.4p), IMI (14.9p), Informa (7.55p), Lloyds Banking (1.12p), Moneysupermarket (3.1p), Pearson (6p), Quartix (2.4p), RM (2p), Severfield (1.8p), Walker Crips (0.33p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 12 September
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| BBA Aviation ord 29 16/21p | 3.47 | 1 Nov |
| Best Of The Best ord 5p | 2 | 27 Sep |
| Colefax ord 10p | 2.7 | 10 Oct |
| Costain ord 50p | 3.8 | 18 Oct |
| Derwent London ord 5p | 21 | 18 Oct |
| GoCo | 0.4 | 4 Oct |
| Highcroft Investment Trust ord 25p | 21 | 11 Oct |
| Manolete Partners | 1.49 | 30 Sep |
| Oxford Instruments ord 5p | 10.6 | 18 Oct |
| Redcentric | 1 | 4 Oct |
| RPS ord 3p | 2.42 | 11 Oct |
| Trifast ord 5p | 3.05 | 11 Oct |
| XP Power ord 1p | 18 | 10 Oct |
| Zotefoams ord 5p | 2.03 | 10 Oct |
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.
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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.
