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 2 December
Interims: Civitas Social Housing, Omega Diagnostics, Yourgene Health
AGMs: UK Mortgages
Economics: PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: BAE Systems (9.4p), International Consolidated Airlines (12.5p), ITV (2.6p), SCS (11.2p)
Tuesday 3 December
Interims: Collagen Solutions, Falanx, Ramsdens, Solid State, Tekmar, ULS Technology
Finals: Gooch & Housego, Hyve, Oxford Metrics
Trading statements: Ferguson
AGMs: Falanx, Greatland Gold, Oleeo
Economics: Construction data, Labour costs, Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust (12.8p), Coca Cola European Partners (55p)
Wednesday 4 December
Interims: Loungers, Quiz, VP
Finals: Ixico, PCF, Stock Spirits
AGMs: Ceres Power, Frontier IP
Economics: Composite PMI, Services PMI, Official reserves
Companies paying dividends: Galliford Try (35p), Marshalls (4.7p), Unilever (35.76p)
Thursday 5 December
Finals: Daily Mail & General Trust, Victrex
Trading statements: IG Group
AGMs: BATM Advanced Communications, Kin & Carta, MJ Gleeson, Nanoco, Plexus Holdings, Sabien Technology, Softcat
Economics: New car registrations
Companies paying dividends: Burford Capital (3.35p), First Derivatives (8.5p), Jarvis Securities (7.25p), NWF (5.6p)
Friday 6 December
Interim: Berkeley Group, ReNeuron
AGMs: Associated British Foods, Gfinity, James Halstead, Jubilee Metals
Companies paying dividends: Ashmore (12.1p), Avingtrans (2.4p), Balfour Beatty (2.1p), Bloomsbury Publishing (1.28p), Brand Architekts (4.35p), CVS (5.5p), Prime People (1.8p), Proven VCT (2p), Scottish Mortgage (1.39p), Sthree (5.1p), Young & Co’s Brewery (10.57p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 5 December
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Acorn Income Fund | 5.2 | 20/12/2019 |
| Albion Technology & General VCT | 2 | 31/12/2019 |
| Alliance Trust Ord Stk 2.5p | 3.49 | 31/12/2019 |
| AVI Global Trust | 14.5 | 06/01/2020 |
| Babcock International Group Ord 60p | 7.2 | 17/01/2020 |
| Big Yellow Ord 10p | 17.1 | 10/01/2020 |
| DFS Furniture | 7.5 | 27/12/2019 |
| Fidelity Special Values Ord 5p | 1.5 | 15/01/2020 |
| Fidelity Special Values Ord 5p | 3.65 | 15/01/2020 |
| Halfords Group Ord 1p | 6.18 | 17/01/2020 |
| Homeserve Ord 12.5p | 5.8 | 07/01/2020 |
| Honeycomb Investment Trust | 20 | 27/12/2019 |
| Intermediate Capital Group Ord 20p | 15 | 14/01/2020 |
| Investec Ord 0.2p | 11 | 18/12/2019 |
| Mediclinic International | 3.2 | 17/12/2019 |
| Michelmersh Brick Holdings Ord | 1.15 | 10/01/2020 |
| Montanro Euro Smaller Co's Ord 50p | 2 | 03/01/2020 |
| Next Ord 10p | 57.5 | 02/01/2020 |
| Residential Secure Income | 1.25 | 27/12/2019 |
| RM Secured Direct Lending | 1.625 | 27/12/2020 |
| RM Secured Direct Lending | 0.075 | 27/12/2019 |
| Royal Mail Ord 1p | 7.5 | 15/01/2020 |
| Smart (J) Contractors Ord 2p | 2.24 | 30/12/2019 |
| Speedy Hire Ord 5p | 0.7 | 10/01/2020 |
| THWAITES(DANIEL) ORD £0.25 | 1.1 | 02/01/2020 |
| Town Centre Securities Ord 25p | 8.5 | 07/01/2020 |
| UIL | 1.875 | 20/12/2019 |
| Vertu Motors Ord 10p | 0.6 | 17/01/2020 |
| Wincanton Ord 10p | 3.9 | 10/01/2020 |
| YouGov Ord 1p | 4 | 16/12/2019 |
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.
