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 31 August - Bank Holiday
Tuesday 1 September
Economics: Consumer credit, money supply, mortgage approvals, manufacturing
Interims: CentralNic (CNIC), Dalata Hotel (DAL), Highland Gold Mining (HGM), STV (STVG)
AGMs: Applegreen (APGN), Arena Events (ARE), Custodian Reit (CREI), Gear4Music (G4M), Monks Investment Trust (MNKS)
Companies paying dividends: BlackRock Income & Growth Investment Trust (2.6p), JPM Claverhouse (6.5p), JPM China Growth & Income (3.7p), Relx (13.6p)
Wednesday 2 September
Economics: Shop price index, construction
Interims: Concurrent Technologies (CNC), Gem Diamonds (GEMD), Gym Group (GYM), Johnson Service (JSG), Uniphar (UPR), Woodbois (WBI)
Finals: Accrol (ACRL), Barratt Developments (BDEV), Creightons (CRL), Mattioli Woods (MTW)
AGMs: GYG (GYG), James Latham (LTHM), Velocys (VLS), Yellow Cake (YCA)
Companies paying dividends: Man (3.75p), Pennon (30.11p), St Modwen Properties (1.1p), Total Produce (2.34p)
Thursday 3 September
Economics: PMI services
Interims: Alpha FX (AFX), Curtis Banks (CBP), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), Headlam (HEAD), Melrose Industries (MRO), Mpac (MPAC), PPHE Hotel (PPH)
Finals: McBride (MCB), NCC (NCC)
AGMs: Dart (DTG), JLEN Environmental Assets (JLEN), Ninety One (N91), Severfield (SFR)
Company paying dividend: Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies (3.75p)
Friday 4 September
Interims: Capital & Regional (CAL), Eurocell (ECEL)
AGMs: Berkeley Group (BKG), IDE (IDE)
Companies paying dividends: Artemis Aim VCT (4.5p), Avon Rubber (9.02p), Cranswick (43.7p), Croma Security Solutions (CSSG), Direct Line Insurance (14.4p special, 7.4p interim), FDM (18.5p), Impact Healthcare Reit (1.5725p), Iomart (3.93p), James Latham (10p), Kainos (6.7p), Mincon (0.94p), Monks Investment Trust (2.5p), Nichols (28p), Northern 2 VCT (1.5p), Northern 3 VCT (2p), Phoenix Group (23.4p), Residential Secure Income Reit (1.25p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 3 September
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Alliance Trust Ord Stk 2.5p | 3.595 | 30-Sep-20 |
| Antofagasta Ord 5p | 4.76 | 02-Oct-20 |
| BHP | 42.3 | 22-Sep-20 |
| BMO Capital & Income Investment Trust | 2.55 | 30-Sep-20 |
| Capital | 0.681 | 25-Sep-20 |
| Clarkson Ord 25p | 53 | 21-Sep-20 |
| ContourGlobal | 3.1077 | 25-Sep-20 |
| Diversified Gas & Oil | 2.77 | 25-Sep-20 |
| Glencore | 7.69 | 23-Sep-20 |
| Gresham House Strategic | 12.8 | 30-Sep-20 |
| H&T Ord 5p | 2.5 | 02-Oct-20 |
| Miton UK Microchip Trust | 0.1 | 29-Sep-20 |
| Premier Global Infrastructure | 2.5 | 30-Sep-20 |
| Quilter Ord 0.07p | 1 | 21-Sep-20 |
| Rathbone Brothers Ord 5p | 25 | 06-Oct-20 |
| RM Secured Direct Lending | 1.625 | 25-Sep-20 |
| Robinson Ord 0.5p | 2 | 01-Oct-20 |
| Seneca Global Income & Growth Trust | 1.68 | 25-Sep-20 |
| Solid State Ord 5p | 7.25 | 23-Sep-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.
