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Week Ahead: 30 September - 4 October

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
September 26, 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 30 September

Interims: Altitude, Bidstack, Nasstar, President Energy

AGMs: Accsys Technologies, Hardy Oil & Gas, Renalytix AI, Stirling Industries, Sure Ventures, The Panoply Holdings 

Economics: GDP, Business investment, Current account balance, Consumer credit, Mortgage approvals, Money supply

Companies paying dividends: Renewables Infrastructure (1.66p), 600 (0.5p), Albion Development VCT (2.25p), Alliance Trust (3.49p), BCA Marketplace (6.55p), BMO Capital & Income Investment Trust (2.55p), Ediston Property Investment Trust (0.4792p), Henderson Diversified Income Trust (1.1p), HICL Diversified Income Trust (2.06p), Honeycomb Investment Trust (20p), Imperial Brands (31.28p), Knights (1.27p), Manolete Partners (1.49p), Micro Focus International (46.66p), P2P Global Investments (12p), PayPoint (9.2p), PayPoint (special – 9.2p), Phoenix (23.4p)

 

Tuesday 1 October

Finals: Ferguson, James Halstead, Revolution Bars, SCS

EGM: Hardy Oil & Gas

Economics: PMI manufacturing, Shop prices

Companies paying dividends: Aggreko (9.38p), BlackRock World Mining Trust (4p), Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (2.4p), Melrose Industries (1.7p), Park (2.15p), Robinson (2.5p)

 

Wednesday 2 October

Interims: Inspiration Healthcare, Tesco

Finals: Ceres Power, Kin & Carta

Trading statement: Topps Tiles

AGM: Open Orphan

Economics: PMI Construction

Companies paying dividends: Croda International (39.5p), Savills (4.95p), Stagecoach (3.9p)

 

Thursday 3 October

Interim: Ted Baker

Final: Genedrive

Trading statements: CMC Markets, Photo-Me International

AGMs: Arcontech, Photo-Me International, Purplebricks

Economics: PMI services, Composite, Official reserves

Companies paying dividends: Adnams (78p), Diageo (42.47p), Globaldata (5p), Greggs (11.9p), Greggs (special – 35p), InterContinental Hotels (32.9p), PZ Cussons (5.61p)

 

Friday 4 October

AGM: Abbey

Economics: New car registrations

Companies paying dividends: Antofagasta (8.84p), Aptitude Software (1.8p), Arcontech (2p), Churchill China (10.3p), Crest Nicholson (11.2p), Dalata Hotel (3.2p), Devro (2.7p), Eurocell (3.2p), Filta (1p), Fletcher King (0.75p), Glanbia (8.27p), GoCo (0.4p), Goodwin (96.21p), H&T (4.7p), Highland Gold (5p), International Personal Finance (4.6p), IWG (2.15p), JPMorgan American Investment Trust (2.5p), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (3.26p), Kingspan (9.54p), Maintel (15.1p), Meggitt (5.55p), NCC (3.15p), Portmeirion (8p), Redcentric (1p), T Clarke (0.75p), TOC Property Backed Lending Trust (1.5p), Tullow Oil (2.1p)

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 3 October

CompanyDividend (p)Pay Date
Anglo Asian Mining ord 1p3.531/10/2019
Anglo Pacific ord 10p1.62514/11/2019
Arena Events0.251/11/2019
Avation6.9718/10/2019
Bluefield Solar Income Fund1.981/11/2019
Bluefield Solar Income Fund0.631/11/2019
BMO Private Equity Trust3.8130/10/2019
Braime Group A non voting3.618/10/2019
Braime ord3.618/10/2019
British Land Company ord 25p7.98258/11/2019
Cello Health1.151/11/2019
Cenkos Securities ord 1p25/11/2019
Central Asia Metals6.525/10/2019
DS Smith ord 10p111/11/2019
Daejan ord 25p711/11/2019
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust ord 25p8.68/11/2019
Fisher (James) & Sons ord 25p11.31/11/2019
Hastings  2p4.58/11/2019
Hays ord 1p5.4315/11/2019
Hays ord 1p3.9715/11/2019
HML ord 1.5p0.4718/10/2019
Hunting ord 25p4.1323/10/2019
Johnson Service ord 10p1.151/11/2019
JPMorgan Multi-Asset Trust18/11/2019
Judges Scientific151/11/2019
K3 Capital422/10/2019
Keywords Studios0.5825/10/2019
Kingfisher ord 15 5/7p3.338/11/2019
Lowland Investment Co. ord 25p1531/10/2019
Mears ord 1p3.6524/10/2019
Merchants Trust ord 25p6.812/11/2019
Mid Wynd International Inv Tst ord 25p3.8529/11/2019
Murray International Trust ord 25p 1218/11/2019
Redde6.157/11/2019
Restore2.49/11/2019
Rightmove ord 1p2.81/11/2019
RIT Capital Partners ord £11731/10/2019
Rosenblatt230/10/2019
Schroder European Reit1.6621/10/2019
Scottish Inv Tst ord Stk 25p5.31/11/2019
Securities Trust of Scotland ord 25p1.4525/10/2019
SIG ord 10p1.258/11/2019
Smith & Nephew ord 20c11.530/10/2019
Statpro ord 1p0.856/11/2019
Synthomer ord 10p45/11/2019
Taylor Wimpey ord 25p3.848/11/2019
TP ICAP5.68/11/2019
Travis Perkins ord 10p15.58/11/2019
WPP22.74/11/2019

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.