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 16 December
Interims: Fulham Shore, Sports Direct, Studio Retail
Final: Chemring
AGMs: AFI Development, AIQ, Arc Minerals, Conroy Gold & Natural Resources, Karelian Diamond Resources
Economics: House prices, PMI Manufacturing, PMI Services, PMI Composite, Total orders, Selling prices
Companies paying dividends: Aeorema Communications (1p), GCP Student Living (1.57p), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (3.75p), TalkTalk (1p), YouGov (4p)
Tuesday 17 December
Interim: Evgen Pharma
Final: Pressure Technologies
AGMs: Applied Graphene Materials, dotDigital, Sareum, Tristel
EGM: Glenveagh Properties, Leaf Clean Energy
Economics: Employment, Average weekly earnings
Companies paying dividends: Asia Dragon Trust (4.75p), Kin and Carta (1.3p), Mediclinic (3.2p)
Wednesday 18 December
AGMs: GCM Resources, Northamber
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Production price index, House price index
Companies paying dividends: Creighton (0.15p), Investec (11p), Royal Dutch Shell 'A' (37p), Royal Dutch Shell 'B' (37p), Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (0.65p), Volution (3.3p), Witan Investment (1.175p)
Thursday 19 December
Interim: Bilby
AGMs: Egdon Resources, Fragrant Prosperity, Haydale Graphene Industries, Parkmead, SkinBioTherapeutics, Transense Technologies
Economics: Retail sales, Bank rates, BOE bond target
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Frontier Markets Fund NPV (0.7618p), Card Factory (2.9p), Card Factory (special – 5p), Craneware (15p), Regional Reit (1.9p), Scottish American Investment (3p), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (2p)
Friday 20 December
Final: Benchmark, Jersey Electric
AGMs: European Metals, Focusrite
Economics: Consumer confidence, Business confidence, Public finances, GDP, Exports, Imports, Total business investment, Current account balance
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Standard European Logistic (1.27p), Acorn Income Fund (5.2p), Aquila Services (0.3p), B&M European Value Retail (2.7p), Biffa (2.47p), BlackRock World Mining Trust (4p), Brickability (0.87p), Cake Box (1.6p), CMC Markets (2.85p), Diploma (20.5p), DWF (1.25p), Gresham House Renewable VCT 1 (5.3133p), Gresham House Renewable VCT 2 (5.3133p), iEnergizer (5.2p), J Sainsbury (3.3p), JLEN Environmental Assets (1.665p), JPM Elect Managed Growth (3.5p), Kainos (3.5p), LXI Reit (1.4375p), Princess Private Equity (24.5p), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income & Growth Trust (2.5p), Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust (1.68p), Tristel (3.5p), U&I 2.4p), Urban Logistics Reit (3.75p), Walker Crips (0.6p), Wynnstay Properties (7.4p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 19 December
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Alliance Pharma ord 1p | 0.536 | 10 Jan |
| Burberry ord 0.05p | 11.3 | 31 Jan |
| Cambria Automobiles ord 10p | 0.85 | 17 Jan |
| Countryside Properties | 10.3 | 7 Feb |
| FinnCap | 0.42 | 8 Jan |
| Iomart ord 1p | 2.6 | 31 Jan |
| Mitie ord 2.5p | 1.33 | 4 Feb |
| Netcall ord 5p | 0.2 | 5 Feb |
| Sirius Real Estate € | 1.51 | 17 Jan |
| Topps Tiles ord 2.5p | 2.3 | 31 Jan |
| United Utilities | 14.2 | 3 Feb |
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.
