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 18 November
Interims: Chamberlin, McKay Securities
Final: Diploma
Trading statement: DWF
Economics: House prices
Companies paying dividends: City Merchants High Yield Trust (2.5p), Springfield Properties (3.2p)
Tuesday 19 November
Interims: Big Yellow, CML Microsystems, Halma, Homeserve, Intermediate Capital, MHP SE, Palace Capital, Scapa, SRT Marine Systems, Telecom Plus, Trifast
Finals: Ei, easyJet
AGMs: BMO Real Estate Investments, Dunelm, Jupiter UK Growth Investment Trust, Petro Matad, Physiomics
Company paying dividend: Murray International Trust (12p)
Wednesday 20 November
Interims: Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, Argentex, Babcock, CML Microsystems, HICL Infrastructure, Liontrust Asset Management, TCS, U+I, United Utilities
Finals: Mitchells & Butlers, Sage, SSP
Economics: Labour costs
Trading statements: Direct Line, Kingfisher
AGMs: Brand Architekts, Finsbury Food, Jupiter US Smaller Companies, Origin Enterprises, Rainbow Rare Earths
Companies paying dividends: HSBC (8.26p), STM (0.75p)
Thursday 21 November
Interims: Charles Stanley, CMC Markets, Dart, First Property, Helical, iEnergizer, Investec, JLEN Environmental Assets, Manolete Partners, Mitie, Naked Wines, NewRiver Reit, Severn Trent
Finals: Euromoney Institutional Investors
Trading statements: Centrica, Close Brothers, CLS, Johnson Matthey, Knights, Rotork
AGMs: Avation, Close Brothers, Diurnal, Doric Nimrod Air One, Doric Nimrod Air Three, Doric Nimrod Air Two, Ferguson, FW Thorpe, Hotel Chocolat, JD Wetherspoon, Litigation Capital Management, Netcall, SQN Asset Finance Income Fund
Economics: Public finances
Companies paying dividends: Caretech (3.75p), Centrica (1.5p), M Winkworth (1.9p), Mulberry (5p), North Atlantic Small Co Investment Trust (30p), Ricardo (15.28p)
Friday 22 November
Interims: Stenprop, Record
Final: Zambeef Products
AGMs: Crystal Amber Fund, EQTEC, Highway Capital, MC Mining, Sylvania Platinum
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust (8p), ACE Liberty & Stone (0.83p), Amati Aim VCT (3.5p), Animalcare (2p), Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), Bovis Homes (20.5p), Charles Taylor (3.65p), Dunelm (20.5p) Dunelm (special – 32p), GCP Infrastructure Investments (1.9p), Go-Ahead (71.91p), Lookers (1.48p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (1.31p), Next Fifteen Communications (2.5p), Primary Health Properties (1.4p), River and Mercantile (3.5p), River and Mercantile (special – 1.6p), Saga (1.3p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure (1.5625p), Smart Metering Systems (2.3p), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (1.625p), Ted Baker (7.8p), Tesco (2.65p), Walker Greenbank (0.52p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 21 November
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Finsbury Food ord 1p | 2.34 | 23/12/19 |
| Rotala ord 1p | 0.95 | 13/12/19 |
| Ten Entertainment | 3.7 | 03/01/20 |
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.
