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 17 February
Interim: Petra Diamonds
Economics: House prices
Companies paying dividends: Invesco Perpetual Select Trust UK Equities (1.5p), Invesco Perpetual Select Global Equity (1.55p), Investment Co (3.75p), Paragon Banking (14.2p)
Tuesday 18 February
Interims: BHP, Blancco Technology, Pan African Resources
Finals: Glencore, Sunrise Resources, The Renewables Infrastructure Group
AGMs: Dewhurst, Titon
Economics: Employment data
Wednesday 19 February
Final: RPS
AGMs: Gooch & Housego
Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index
Companies paying dividends: Hollywood Bowl (5.16p)
Thursday 20 February
Interims: Hays, McBride
Finals: BAE Systems, Irish Residential Properties REIT, Kaz Minerals, Morgan Sindall, Rathbones, Smith & Nephew, Telecom Egypt
AGMs: Integrafin
EGM: Plus500, Tiziana Life Sciences
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.5p), M Winkworth (2.1p), Ramsdens Holdings (2.7p)
Friday 21 February
Final: Pearson
AGMs: Caledonian Trust
Economics: PMI composite, PMI manufacturing, PMI services, Public finances
Companies paying dividends: Best of the Best (14p), DWF (1.25p), Hipgnosis Songs Fund (1.25p), National Milk Records (1.25p), Oxford Technology VCT 2 (1.5p), RWS (7p), Secure Income REIT (4.2p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure (1.5625p), Stock Spirits (€5.34), Titon (3p), Urban & Civic (2.5p), Victrex (46.14p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 20 February
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Blackrock Throgmorton Trust | 7.7 | 02 Apr |
| Carnival Ord $1.66 | 38.46 | 13 Mar |
| CC Japan Income & Growth Trust | 2.5 | 19 Mar |
| Driver Group Ord 0.4p | 0.75 | 20 Mar |
| Gateley Holdings | 2.9 | 31 Mar |
| GlaxoSmithKline Ord 25p | 23 | 19 Apr |
| Heath (Samuel) & Sons Ord 10p | 5.5 | 20 Mar |
| Impax Asset Management | 4 | 27 Mar |
| Independent Investment Trust | 5 | 06 Apr |
| Independent Investment Trust | 5 | 06 Apr |
| Inland Homes | 2.25 | 12 Jun |
| Mountview Estates Ord 5p | 200 | 30 Mar |
| Nexus Infrastructure | 4.4 | 22 Mar |
| Unilever Ord 3 1/9p | 34.72 | 18 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.
