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 3 February
Final: Porvair
Economics: PMI manufacturing
Companies paying dividends: Mercantile Investment Trust (1.35p), United Utilities (14.2p)
Tuesday 4 February
Finals: Micro Focus, St Modwen Properties, BP
Interims: Alumasc, Genedrive, K3 Capital, Mattioli Woods
Trading statement: BP
AGM: Numis
Economics: Construction data
Companies paying dividends: Johnson Matthey (24.5p), Mitie (1.33p)
Wednesday 5 February
Final: Smurfit Kappa, GSK
Interims: Barratt Developments, Frontier Development
Trading statements: GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone
AGMs: Future, Premier Miton, Ten Lifestyle
Economics: New car registrations, Official reserves, PMI services, PMI composite
Companies paying dividends: Ashtead (7.15p), Britvic (21.7p), Halma (6.54p), N Brown (2.83p), Netcall (0.2p), UDG Healthcare (9.56p), Workspace (11.67p)
Thursday 6 February
Interims: Ashmore, Filtronic
Trading statements: Compass, Victrex
AGMs: Compass, easyJet, On the Beach, Stock Spirits, Urban & Civic, Victrex
Companies paying dividends: Unicorn Aim VCT (3.5p), XPS Pensions (2.3p)
Friday 7 February
AGMs: Autins, Brewin Dolphin, Cerillion
Companies paying dividends: Aveva (15.5p), BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (3.68p), British Land (7.9825p), Countryside Properties (10.3p), Daily Mail & General Trust (16.6p), Globalworth Real Estate Investments (0.3p), Henderson European Focus Trust (21.7p), NewRiver Reit (5.4p), Numis (6.5p), QinetiQ (2.2p), Supermarket Income Reit (1.46p), US Solar Fund (0.3875p), Zytronic (15.2p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 6 February
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Baronsmead Venture Trust | 3.5 | 6 Mar |
| BlackRock Income & Growth Inv Trust | 4.6 | 19 Mar |
| Daejan Ord 25p | 35 | 6 Mar |
| Downing One VCT (Nov 2013) | 2 | 28 Feb |
| Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst ord 25p | 3 | 28 Feb |
| JPM Russian Securities ord 1p | 10 | 13 Mar |
| Motorpoint | 2.6 | 13 Mar |
| NCC ord 1p | 1.5 | 6 Mar |
| Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust | 1.1 | 28 Feb |
| Sage ord 1p | 11.12 | 2 Mar |
| Treatt ord 2p | 3.8 | 19 Mar |
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.
