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 7 October
Interim: Angling Direct
Finals: Pci-Pal, Sensyne Health
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Standard European Logistic (1.27p), Domino's Pizza (4.2p), Hammerson (11.1p), London Metric Property (2p)
Tuesday 8 October
Final: YouGov
Trading statements: easyJet, Stock Spirits
Economics: Unit labour costs
Company paying dividend: Holders Technology (0.25p)
Wednesday 9 October
Interim: Vertu Motors
Final: Volution
Trading statements: PageGroup, Robert Walters
AGMs: Fastforward Innovations, Fulcrum Utility Services, Laura Ashley
Economics: House prices
Companies paying dividends: AdEPT Technology (4.9p), Flutter Entertainment (67p), PageGroup (4.3p), PageGroup (special – 67p), Randall & Quilter (12.73p)
Thursday 10 October
Interims: Morses Club, N Brown
Trading statements: Dunelm, Hargreaves Lansdown, Mondi
AGM: Aberdeen Frontier Markets Investment
Economics: Monthly GDP, industrial production, manufacturing production, construction output, index of services, trade balance
Companies paying dividends: Colefax (2.7p), Forterra (4p), Macfarlane (0.69p), Restaurant Group (2.1p), United Carpets (2.85p), Univision Engineering (0.536p), XP Power (18p), Zotefoams (2.03p)
Friday 11 October
Trading statement: Jupiter Fund Management
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Diversified Income & Growth Trust (1.34p), Alpha FX (2.2p), Arrow Global (4.4p), Bakkavor (2p), Braveheart Investment (0.5p), Chesnara (7.43p), Computacenter (10.1p), Concurrent Technologies (1.05p), Drax (6.4p), G4S (3.59p), Grafton (6.5p), Highcroft Investment Trust (21p), Hydrogen (0.6p), Intertek (34.2p), Invesco Income Growth Trust (2.5p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), PHSC (0.5p), RPS (2.42p), RSA Insurance (7.5p), Ruffer Investment Company (0.9p), The Gym Group (0.45p), Trifast (3.05p), Wentworth Resources (0.45p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 10 October
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
Barratt Developments | 19.5 | 5/11/19 |
Barratt Developments | 17.3 | 5/11/19 |
Begbies Traynor | 1.8 | 7/11/19 |
Bodycote | 6 | 8/11/19 |
Centaur Media | 1.5 | 25/10/19 |
Centaur Media | 2 | 25/10/19 |
Centrica | 1.5 | 21/11/19 |
Charles Taylor | 3.65 | 22/11/19 |
City of London Investment Group | 18 | 29/10/19 |
Close Brothers | 44 | 26/11/19 |
Cobham | 0.4 | 8/11/19 |
CPL Resources | 9.82 | 4/11/19 |
Curtis Banks | 2.5 | 14/11/19 |
Haynes Publishing | 4 | 30/10/19 |
HSBC | 8.26 | 20/11/19 |
JPM Mid Cap Inv Trust | 21.5 | 13/11/19 |
Morgan Sindall | 21 | 28/10/19 |
Murgitroyd | 15 | 8/11/19 |
Phoenix Spree Deutschland | 2.1 | 25/10/19 |
Saga | 1.3 | 22/11/19 |
Shore Capital | 5 | 30/10/19 |
Spectris | 21.9 | 8/11/19 |
Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 32 | 8/11/19 |
Weir | 16.5 | 5/11/19 |
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.
