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 13 July
Final: RUA Life Sciences
AGMs: Polarean Imaging, Starcom
Companies paying dividends: 3i Infrastructure (4.6p), Plus500 (0.3p)
Tuesday 14 July
Economics: Balance of trade, GDP, Industrial production, manufacturing production
Trading update: McBride
Interims: Ocado, Synectics
Finals: AO World, Halma, Mercia Asset Management, Motorpoint
AGMs: Bluerock Diamonds, Filta, Great Western Mining, HICL Infrastructure, QinetiQ, Wynnstay Property
Company paying dividend: Pets at Home (5p)
Wednesday 15 July
Economics: CPI, RPI, producer price index
Trading updates: Burberry
Interims: McCarthy & Stone
AGMs: Air Partner, Burberry, Danakali, Severn Trent, Thalassa, Zaim Credit Systems
Companies paying dividends: Assura (0.71p)
Thursday 16 July
Economics: Unemployment rate
Trading updates: Hays, SSE
Interim: K3 Business Technology
Final: Invinity Energy Systems
AGMs: Biffa, BT, Electrocomponents, Evgen Pharma, Marshall Motor, Oracle Power, Renewi, Tiziana Life Sciences, TP, Trackwise Designs
Friday 17 July
Economics: Consumer confidence
AGMs: DCC, Homeserve
Final: Caffyns
Companies paying dividends: 3i (17.5p), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (4.09p), LXI Reit (1.4375p), Regional Reit (1.9p), Severn Trent (60.05p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 16 July
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Anpario Ord 23p | 5.5 | 31-Jul-20 |
| Caledonia Mining Corp. Com | 6.5 | 31-Jul-20 |
| Castings Ord 10p | 11.4 | 17-Aug-20 |
| Character Group Ord 5p | 2 | 31-Jul-20 |
| City Merchants HIgh Yield Trust | 2.5 | 19-Aug-20 |
| F&C Investment Trust | 2.9 | 3-Aug-20 |
| Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust | 1 | 14-Aug-20 |
| MS International Ord 10p | 1.75 | 14-Aug-20 |
| Schroder European REIT | 0.831 | 31-Jul-20 |
| Tatton Asset Management | 6.4 | 28-Aug-20 |
| Volex | 2 | 7-Aug-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.
