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 6 January
Companies paying dividends: AVI Global Trust (14.5p), Caffyns (7.5p), Clipper Logistics (3.5p), discoverIE (2.97p), Rolls-Royce (4.6p)
Economics: Services PMI
Tuesday 7 January
Finals: C4X Discovery, Safestore
Trading statement: Wm Morrison
Companies paying dividends: Homeserve (5.8p), Town Centre Securities (8.5p), TR Property Investment Trust (5.2p)
Economics: New car registrations
Wednesday 8 January
Trading statement: Sainsburys
AGMs: Conygar Investment Company
Companies paying dividends: 3i (17.5p), Bellway (100p), Electrocomponents (5.9p), FinnCap (0.42p), Games Workshop (35p)
Economics: Unit labour costs, output
Thursday 9 January
AGM: Cambria Automobiles
Trading statements: Card Factory, Dunelm
Companies paying dividends: Caledonia Investments (16.6p), D4t4 Solutions (0.77p), Octopus Apollo VCT (1.5p), Worldwide Healthcare Trust (6.5p)
Economics: Retail sales
Friday 10 January
AGM: Plutus Powergen
Trading statement: Robert Walters
Companies paying dividends: Alliance Pharma (0.536p), Alpha Real Estate Trust (1p), Associated British Foods (34.3p), Big Yellow (17.1p), Carr’s (2.5p), Fuller Smith & Turner (7.8p), Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (2p), James Cropper (2.5p), JPMorgan Investment Trust (1.4p), Lok’N Store (8.33p), London Metric Property (2p), Marks and Spencer (3.9p), Michelmersh Brick (1.15p), MS International (1.7p), Norcros (3.1p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), Pets at Home (2.5p), Premier Miton (5.4p), Redcentric (0.83p), Renewi (0.45p), Severfield (1.1p), Speedy Hire (0.7p), Wincanton (3.9p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 9 January
Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
AJ Bell | 3.33 | 22 Jan |
Amigo | 3.1 | 29 Jan |
Aveva ord 3 1/3p | 15.5 | 7 Feb |
Baring Emerging Europe Trust ord $0.10 | 20 | 14 Feb |
Bisichi Mining ord 10p | 1 | 14 Feb |
BMO Private Equity Trust | 3.87 | 31 Jan |
Brewin Dolphin ord 1p | 12 | 12 Feb |
DotDigital ord 0.5p | 0.67 | 31 Jan |
Focusrite ord 0.1p | 2.6 | 31 Jan |
Hargreave Hale Aim VCT | 2.25 | 11 Feb |
Henderson European Focus Trust | 21.7 | 7 Feb |
Majedie Investments 10p | 7 | 28 Jan |
Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust | 0.9 | 31 Jan |
On The Beach = | 2 | 13 Feb |
Oxford Metrics | 1.8 | 28 Feb |
Paragon Banking = | 14.2 | 17 Feb |
QinetiQ ord 1p | 2.2 | 7 Feb |
Schroder European Reit | 1.56 | 27 Jan |
Smith (WH) ord 20p | 41 | 30 Jan |
UDG Healthcare | 9.56 | 5 Feb |
Unicorn Aim VCT | 3.5 | 6 Feb |
Urban&Civic | 2.5 | 21 Feb |
Workspace ord 100p | 11.67 | 5 Feb |
XPS Pensions | 2.3 | 6 Feb |
Zytronic ord 1p | 15.2 | 7 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.
