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 9 December
Interims: Circle Property, The Panoply Holdings
AGM: River & Mercantile
Tuesday 10 December
Interims: Begbies Traynor, Mind Gym, Photo-Me International
Finals: Driver, Nexus Infrastructure, Oxford Biodynamics, RWS
AGMs: Ashley House, Bellway, Upland Resources
Economics: GDP, Index of services, Industrial production, Manufacturing production, Trade balance, Construction output
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Greater European Investment Trust (4.1p), Judges Scientific (special – 200p), RDI Reit (6p), Spire Healthcare (1.3p)
Wednesday 11 December
Interims: DWF, Stagecoach
Finals: AJ Bell, Autins
Trading statement: Ted Baker
AGMs: Amedeo Air Four Plus, Bowleven, Falcon Oil & Gas, Westmount Energy, Yougov
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus (special – 5p), DCC (49.48p), Fidelity Asian Values (8.8p), Litigation Capital Management (0.46p)
Thursday 12 December
Interims: Dixons Carphone, Fuller Smith & Turner, Purplebricks, Superdry, Versarien, Vianet
Finals: Caretech, TUI
Trading statements: Ocado, PJSC RusHydro, PZ Cussons, Serco
AGMs: Bioventix, Blancco Technology, Lok’nStore, Orchard Funding, Pipehawk, Volution, Wilmcote, Zinc Media
Economics: House price balance, Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: 1PM (0.56p), British & American Investment Trust (2.7p), Brunner Investment Trust (4.66p), Inspired Energy (0.22p)
Friday 13 December
Final: Hollywood Bowl
Trading statements: Balfour Beatty, SThree
AGMs: Amur Minerals Corporation, UP Global Sourcing
Economics: Inflation
Companies paying dividends: Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (3.5p), Braemar Shipping Services (5p), Carnival (39.73p), CML Microsystems (2p), JPM Smaller Companies Investment Trust (5.5p), MJ Gleeson (23p), Origin Enterprises (16.079p), Personal Group (5.825p), Pollen Street Secured Lending (12p), Rotala (0.95p), Seneca Growth Capital VCT (1.5p), Softcat (10.4p), System1 (1.1p), Tatton Asset Management (3.2p), Telecom Plus (27p), Whitbread (32.7p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 28 November
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| 3i ord 73 19/22p | 17.5 | 8/01/20 |
| Alpha Financial Markets Consulting | 2.1 | 23/12/19 |
| Associated British Foods ord 5p | 34.3 | 10/01/20 |
| BMO Real Estate Investments | 1.25 | 31/12/19 |
| Charles Stanley ord 25p | 2.85 | 17/01/20 |
| Cranswick ord 10p | 16.7 | 24/01/20 |
| discoverIE | 2.97 | 6/01/20 |
| FIH | 1.8 | 24/01/20 |
| Genel Energy ord 10p | 4.1 | 1/01/20 |
| Henderson High Income Trust | 2.475 | 31/01/20 |
| Manolete Partners | 0.5 | 31/12/19 |
| Marstons ord 7.375p | 4.8 | 27/01/20 |
| Northamber ord 5p | 0.3 | 17/01/20 |
| Pan African Resources ord 1p | 0.1266 | 30/12/19 |
| Severfield | 1.1 | 10/01/20 |
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.
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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.
