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.
Note: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has asked all listed companies to delay the release of their full-year results by at least a fortnight, and extended the deadline for reporting audited numbers out to 30 June from 31 April. The dividend payment information is correct as of 3 May.
Companies still holding annual general meetings are either encouraging shareholders to vote via proxy instead of attending or banning them from attending entirely, please check with the company if planning to attend.
Monday 11 May
Trading updates: Centrica (CNA), Hiscox (HSX)
Interims: Diploma (DPLM)
Finals: Novacyt (NCYT)
AGMs: Anglo Pacific Group (APF), Centrica (CNA), EVR Holdings (EVRH), McColls Retail Group (MCLS), Midwich (MIDW)
Companies paying dividends: Begbies Traynor (0.9p), EMIS Group (15.6p)
Tuesday 12 May
Interims: Focusrite (TUNE), Treatt (TET)
Finals: Land Securities (LAND), Vodafone (VOD)
AGMs: Fidelity European Values (FEV), GLI Finance (GLIF), Irish Continental Group (ICGC), IWG (IWG), M Winkworth (WINK), MacFarlane Group (MACF), Premier Oil (PMO), Reckitt Benckiser (RB.), Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA)
Economics: GDP, index of services, balance of trade, industrial production, manufacturing production
Companies paying dividends: British Smaller Companies VCT 2 (2p)
Wednesday 13 May
Trading updates: Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX)
Interims: Compass Group (CPG), Marstons (MARS), Sage Group (SGE), Stock Spirits (STCK)
Finals: British Land (BLND)
AGMs: Burford Capital (BUR), Cineworld (CINE), Dialight (DIA), Foxtons (FOXT), Greggs (GRG), Kenmare Resources (KMR), Marshalls (MSLH), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Robert Walters (RWA), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), TP ICAP (TCAP), Transglobe Energy (TGL), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Ultra Electronics Holdings (ULE), Vesuvius (VSVS)
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: British American Tobacco (52.6p), F&C Investment Trust (2.9p)
Thursday 14 May
Trading updates: Gresham Technologies (GHT)
Interims: Countryside Properties (CSP), Grainger (GRI), Ten Lifestyle Group (TENG), Titon Holdings (TON)
Finals: Checkit (CKT), Minoan (MIN), Premier Foods (PFD), Westminster Group (WSG)
AGMs: Airea (AIEA), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Cairn Energy (CNE), Computacenter (CCC), Direct Line Insurance (DLG), Eurocell (ECEL), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), Forterra (FORT), Genel Energy (GENL), Gresham Technologies (GHT), Hiscox (HSX), Horizonte Minerals (HZM), Just Eat Takeaway.com NV (JET), Just Group (JUST), Next (NXT), Pittards (PTD), Prudential (PRU), Quilter (QLT), Safestyle UK (SFE), Serco (SRP), Spire Healthcare (SPI), Telit Communications (TCM), TI Fluid Systems (TIFS), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO)
Companies paying dividends: Capital & Counties Properties (1p), Moneysupermarket.com (8.61p)
Friday 15 May
Trading updates: William Hill (WMH)
AGMs: Derwent London (DLN), Gresham House (GHE), John Menzies (MNZS), Pennant International (PEN), Petrofac (PFC), Phoenix Group Holdings (PHNX), Real Estate Investors (RLE), Serinus Energy (SENX), Signature Aviation (SIG), William Hill (WMH)
Companies paying dividends: Drax (9.5p), FBD.HLDGS (84p), Finsbury Growth & Income Trust (8p), Gresham Technologies (0.75p), HgCapital Trust (3p), Hunting (2.32p), John Laing (3.63p regular, 3.98p special), JPM Japan (4p), Kerry Group (45.91p), Man Group (3.95p), Mercantile Investment Trust (2.55p), Northamber (0.3p), Prudential (20.84p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 14 May
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| BlackRock Grtr Eur IT | 1.75 | 10-Jun-20 |
| Caledonia Mining Corp. Com | 6 | 29-May-20 |
| Fevertree Drinks | 9.88 | 12-Jun-20 |
| Fidelity Special Values Ord 5p | 2.1 | 24-Jun-20 |
| Greencoat UK Wind | 1.775 | 29-May-20 |
| Highcroft Investment Trust Ord 25p | 27 | 19-Jun-20 |
| Invesco Perp UK Smaller Co's Inv Ord £1 | 7.35 | 12-Jun-20 |
| Menhaden | 0.4 | 12-Jun-20 |
| Royal Dutch Shell A Ord €0.07 | 12.98 | 22-Jun-20 |
| Standard Life Inv Property Incme Trust | 1.19 | 29-May-20 |
| Tandem Ord 4p | 3.04 | 02-Jul-20 |
| Tandem Ord 4p | 2 | 02-Jul-20 |
| Unilever Ord 3 1/9p | 36.14 | 04-Jun-20 |
| Wentworth Resources PLC | 0.99 | 12-Jun-20 |
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.
