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 March
Interims: Cap-XX, Ceres Power, Volution
Final: Diaceutics
Company paying dividend: Knights (1.1p)
Tuesday 17 March
Interims: Litigation Capital Management, ScS, Softcat
Finals: ContourGlobal, Gamma Communications, Gamesys, Genel Energy, Good Energy, Harworth, Kape Technologies, Polypipe, Smart Metering Systems, TI Fluid Systems, Vectura
AGM: Caretech
Economics: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate
Wednesday 18 March
Interim: MJ Hudson
Finals: Accesso, Anpario, Cello Health, Centaur Media, Curtis Banks, Emis, Empiric Student Property, Empresaria, Ferrexpo, Judges Scientific, Pendragon, Science In Sport, Strix, Tribal, Wm Morrison
AGMs: LPA, Safestore, Sureserve
Companies paying dividends: Ideagen (0.104p), Shoe Zone (8p), Unilever (34.72p)
Thursday 19 March
Finals: Capital Drilling, Energean Oil & Gas, Everyman Media, Genel Energy, Gym, Hurricane Energy, Next, Portmeirion, Safestyle UK, Sanne, Sportech, T Clarke
AGMs: Impax Asset Management, Keras Resources, Sunrise Resources, Tertiary Minerals
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Income & Growth Investment Trust (4.6p), CC Japan Income and Growth Trust (2.5p), GCP Student Living (1.58p), Treatt (3.8p)
Friday 20 March
AGMS: Oxford BioDynamics, Shanta Gold
Companies paying dividends: Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (0.75p), British Smaller Companies VCT (2p), City of London Investment Group (10p), Driver (0.75p), easyJet (43.9p) Empiric Student Property (1.25p), Gresham House Energy (1p), Heath (Samuel) & Sons (5.5p), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (3.75p), Puma VCT 12 (3p), Seneca Global Income and Growth Trust (1.68p)
Economics: Public sector borrowing
Companies going ex-dividend on 19 March
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Athelney Trust ord 25p | 9.3 | 16 Apr |
| BlackRock World Mining Trust | 10 | 7 May |
| Clinigen | 2.15 | 17 Apr |
| Craneware ord 1p | 11.5 | 16 Apr |
| Crest Nicholson ord 5p | 21.8 | 9 Apr |
| Dunelm ord 1p | 8 | 14 Apr |
| Hammerson ord 25p | 14.8 | 30 Apr |
| Hikma Pharmaceutical | 23 | 7 May |
| JPM Mid Cap Inv Tst ord 25p | 8 | 23 Apr |
| Maven Income & Growth VCT 3 | 2 | 17 Apr |
| Meggitt ord 5p | 11.95 | 1 May |
| MTI Wireless Ils 0.01 | 0.155 | 3 Apr |
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.
