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
Company | Dividend (p) | Pay Date |
Anglo Asian Mining ord 1p | 3.5 | 31/10/2019 |
Anglo Pacific ord 10p | 1.625 | 14/11/2019 |
Arena Events | 0.25 | 1/11/2019 |
Avation | 6.97 | 18/10/2019 |
Bluefield Solar Income Fund | 1.98 | 1/11/2019 |
Bluefield Solar Income Fund | 0.63 | 1/11/2019 |
BMO Private Equity Trust | 3.81 | 30/10/2019 |
Braime Group A non voting | 3.6 | 18/10/2019 |
Braime ord | 3.6 | 18/10/2019 |
British Land Company ord 25p | 7.9825 | 8/11/2019 |
Cello Health | 1.15 | 1/11/2019 |
Cenkos Securities ord 1p | 2 | 5/11/2019 |
Central Asia Metals | 6.5 | 25/10/2019 |
DS Smith ord 10p | 11 | 1/11/2019 |
Daejan ord 25p | 71 | 1/11/2019 |
Finsbury Growth & Income Trust ord 25p | 8.6 | 8/11/2019 |
Fisher (James) & Sons ord 25p | 11.3 | 1/11/2019 |
Hastings 2p | 4.5 | 8/11/2019 |
Hays ord 1p | 5.43 | 15/11/2019 |
Hays ord 1p | 3.97 | 15/11/2019 |
HML ord 1.5p | 0.47 | 18/10/2019 |
Hunting ord 25p | 4.13 | 23/10/2019 |
Johnson Service ord 10p | 1.15 | 1/11/2019 |
JPMorgan Multi-Asset Trust | 1 | 8/11/2019 |
Judges Scientific | 15 | 1/11/2019 |
K3 Capital | 4 | 22/10/2019 |
Keywords Studios | 0.58 | 25/10/2019 |
Kingfisher ord 15 5/7p | 3.33 | 8/11/2019 |
Lowland Investment Co. ord 25p | 15 | 31/10/2019 |
Mears ord 1p | 3.65 | 24/10/2019 |
Merchants Trust ord 25p | 6.8 | 12/11/2019 |
Mid Wynd International Inv Tst ord 25p | 3.85 | 29/11/2019 |
Murray International Trust ord 25p | 12 | 18/11/2019 |
Redde | 6.15 | 7/11/2019 |
Restore | 2.4 | 9/11/2019 |
Rightmove ord 1p | 2.8 | 1/11/2019 |
RIT Capital Partners ord £1 | 17 | 31/10/2019 |
Rosenblatt | 2 | 30/10/2019 |
Schroder European Reit | 1.66 | 21/10/2019 |
Scottish Inv Tst ord Stk 25p | 5.3 | 1/11/2019 |
Securities Trust of Scotland ord 25p | 1.45 | 25/10/2019 |
SIG ord 10p | 1.25 | 8/11/2019 |
Smith & Nephew ord 20c | 11.5 | 30/10/2019 |
Statpro ord 1p | 0.85 | 6/11/2019 |
Synthomer ord 10p | 4 | 5/11/2019 |
Taylor Wimpey ord 25p | 3.84 | 8/11/2019 |
TP ICAP | 5.6 | 8/11/2019 |
Travis Perkins ord 10p | 15.5 | 8/11/2019 |
WPP | 22.7 | 4/11/2019 |
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.