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 21 October
Finals: Bioventix, Gfinity
Trading statements: Petra Diamonds
AGMs: Clipper Logistics, CPL Resources, Mattioli Woods
Economics: House prices
Companies paying dividends: Schroder European REIT (1.66p), Standard Chartered (5.79p)
Tuesday 22 October
Interims: Whitbread
Finals: Essensys
Trading statements: Anglo American, Reckitt Benckiser, St James’s Place, Travis Perkins
AGMs: Accrol Group, McBride
Economics: Public finances
Companies paying dividends: Blackrock Energy & Resources Income Trust (1p), Jarvis Securities (15p), K3 Capital Group (4p)
Wednesday 23 October
Final: Softcat
Trading statement: Antofagasta
AGMs: Beeks Financial Cloud Group, Haynes Publishing, Springfield Properties, Stanley Gibbons
EGM: China New Energy
Economics: CBI reported sales
Companies paying dividends: Anexo (1p), Clipper Logistics (6.5p), Hunting (4.13p)
Thursday 24 October
Interims: Braemar Shipping Services
Finals: RDI REIT
Trading statements: AJ Bell, Astrazeneca, Kaz Mineral, Mail.RU, Royal Bank of Scotland
AGMs: Alumasc, Myanmar Investments International, Renishaw RELX, Royal Bank of Scotland, South32, Stranger Holdings
Economics: Housing loans
Companies paying dividends: Airea (0.8p), Belvoir Group (3.4p), Gamma Communications (3.5p), Mears (3.65p), Oakley Capital Investments (2.25p), Rockrose Energy (60p), SimplyBiz Group (1.41p)
Friday 25 October
Trading statements: Barclays, Hastings, WPP
AGMs: Trafalgar Property Group
EGM: Faron Pharmaceutical
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Latin American Income Fund (0.875p), Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust (1.95p), Advanced Medical Solutions (0.5p), A.G Barr (4p), Bonhill (0.28p), Caledonia Mining (5.5p), Centaur Media (1.5p), Centaur Media (special - 2p), Central Asia Metals (6.5p), Consort Medical (13.8p), Eckoh (0.61p), Equiniti (1.95p), Fulcrum Utility Services (1.5p), Hansteen Holdings (2p), Henderson High Income (2.425p), HgCapital Trust (1.8p), John Laing (1.84p), JPM Russian Securities (25p), JTC (1.7p), Kainos (6.5p), Keystone Law (3.2p), Keystone Law (special - 8p), Keywords Studios (0.58p), Luceco (0.6p), Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust (0.9p), Mattioli Woods (13.67p), Medica (0.85p), Midwich (4.85p), Mortgage Advice Bureau (11.1p), North American Income (1.7p), Phoenix Spree Deutschland (2.1p), Puma VCT (26p), Securities Trust of Scotland (1.45p), Smurfit Kappa (25.6p), SQN Secured Income (0.583p), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (3.2p), Strix Group (2.6p), Troy Income & Growth (0.695p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 24 October
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay Date |
| Animalcare Group Ord 20p | 2 | 22/11/2019 |
| Avingtrans Ord 5p | 2.4 | 06/12/2019 |
| Balfour Beatty Ord 50p | 2.1 | 06/12/2019 |
| Bankers Investment Trust Ord 25p | 5.35 | 29/11/2019 |
| Caretech Holding Ord 0.5p | 3.75 | 21/11/2019 |
| Coats Group | 0.45 | 15/11/2019 |
| Dechra Pharmaceuticals Ord 1p | 22.1 | 15/11/2019 |
| Ferguson | 116.08 | 28/11/2019 |
| Foresight Solar Fund | 1.69 | 29/11/2019 |
| Good Energy Group | 1.1 | 16/11/2019 |
| Harwood Wealth Management Group | 1.17 | 08/11/2019 |
| Inspired Energy | 0.22 | 12/12/2019 |
| ITV Ord 10p | 2.6 | 02/12/2019 |
| Joules Group | 1.35 | 14/11/2019 |
| M&C Saatchi Ord 1p | 2.45 | 08/11/2019 |
| McBride Ord 10p | 1.8 | 30/11/2019 |
| Mulberry Ord 5p | 5 | 21/11/2019 |
| Next Fifteen Communications Ord 2.5p | 2.5 | 22/11/2019 |
| Octopus Titan VCT | 2 | 15/11/2019 |
| Rolls Royce Holdings Ord 20p | 4.6 | 06/01/2020 |
| S & U Ord 12.5p | 34 | 15/11/2019 |
| Smart Metering Systems | 2.3 | 22/11/2019 |
| STM Group Ord 0.1p | 0.75 | 20/11/2019 |
| TR European Growth Trust Ord 12.5p | 14.5 | 29/11/2019 |
| Wetherspoon (JD) Ord 2p | 8 | 26/11/2019 |
| William Hill Ord 10p | 2.66 | 28/11/2019 |
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.
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.
