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 28 October
Trading statements: HSBC, Photo-Me International
AGM: Bilby
Economics: CBI reported sales, House prices
Companies paying dividends: Morgan Sindall (21p), Witan Pacific (2.55p)
Tuesday 29 October
Interim: Bloomsbury Publishing
Trading statement: BP
AGM: Vela Technologies
Economics: Consumer credit, Mortgages
Companies paying dividends: City of London Investment Group (18p), Flowtech Fluidpower (2.13p), Rank (5.5p)
Wednesday 30 October
Final: LeafClean Energy
Trading statements: Convatec, GlaxoSmithKline, Next, Smurfit Kappa
AGMs: Angle, Frontier Developments, Goldplat, Hargreaves Services, Ideagen, Origo Partners, Redde, Sensyne Health
EGM: Ades International
Economics: Shop price index
Companies paying dividends: BMO Private Equity Trust (3.81p), Essentra (6.3p), Haynes Publishing (4p), RBG (2p), Shore Capital (5p), Smith & Nephew (11.5p), Xpediator (0.28p)
Thursday 31 October
Interim: BT
Trading statements: Indivior, International Airlines, International Personal Finance, Lloyds Banking, Provident Financial, Royal Dutch Shell, Samsung Electronics, Smith & Nephew, Thomson Reuters
AGMs: Argos Resources, Block Energy, Go-Ahead, MaxCyte
Economics: Consumer confidence, Lloyds business barometer
Companies paying dividends: Alumasc (4.4p), Anglo Asian Mining (3.5p), Beeks Financial Cloud (0.15p), Driver (0.5p), Ediston Property Investment Company (0.4792p), Eland Oil & Gas (1p), Elecosoft (0.3p), Lowland Investment (15p), Nahl (2.6p), Pembroke VCT (3p), Real Estate Investors Ord £0.10 (0.937p), Real Estate Investors Ord 1p (0.9375p), Renishaw (46p), RIT Capital Partners (17p), Schroder Income Growth Fund (5.2p), Wynnstay (4.6p)
Friday 1 November
Economics: PMI Manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Arena Events (0.25p), BBA Aviation (3.47p), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (1.98p), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (special – 0.63p), BMO UK High Income Trust (1.29p), Cello Health (1.15p), Christie (1.25p), DS Smith (11p), Daejan (71p), EMIS (15.6p), Fidelity European Values (2.59p), Hargreaves Services (4.5p), James Fisher (11.3p), Johnson Service (1.15p), Judges Scientific (15p), MP Evans (5p), Mercantile Investment Trust (1.35p), Rightmove (2.8p), Scottish Investment Trust (5.3p), Unite (10.25p), Wm Morrison (1.93p), Wm Morrison (special – 2p), XL Media (2.5328p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 31 October
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay Date |
| 1PM Ord 0.0006818 | 0.56 | 12/12/2019 |
| Air Partner Ord 1p | 1.8 | 29/11/2019 |
| Ashmore Ord 0.01P | 12.1 | 06/12/2019 |
| Axiom European Financial Debt NPV | 1.5 | 22/11/2019 |
| Brunner Inv Trust Ord 25p | 4.66 | 12/12/2019 |
| Dunelm Ord 1p | 20.5 | 22/11/2019 |
| Dunelm Ord 1p | 32 | 22/11/2019 |
| Go-Ahead Ord 10p | 71.91 | 22/11/2019 |
| Hilton Food Ord 10p | 6 | 29/11/2019 |
| Morgan Advanced Materials Ord 25p | 4 | 27/11/2019 |
| North Atlantic Small Co Inv Tst Ord 5p | 30 | 21/11/2019 |
| NWF Ord 25p | 5.6 | 05/12/2019 |
| Secure Income Reit | 4.2 | 29/11/2019 |
| Senior Ord 10p | 2.28 | 29/11/2019 |
| Springfield Properties | 3.2 | 18/11/2019 |
| SThree Ord 1p | 5.1 | 06/12/2019 |
| The Mission Group | 0.77 | 29/11/2019 |
| Thorpe (FW) Ord 10p | 4.1 | 29/11/2019 |
| Unilever Ord 3 1/9p | 35.76 | 04/12/2019 |
| Warpaint London | 1.5 | 15/11/2019 |
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.
