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 14 September
Trading updates: SThree (STEM)
Interims: Costain (COST), Greencoat Renewables (GRP), Keystone Law (KEYS), M P Evans (MPE), Medica (MGP), Silence Therapeutics (SLN)
Finals: Abcam (ABC), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), MJ Gleeson (GLE), Pci-Pal (PCIP)
AGMs: Ethernity Networks (ENET), Great Eastern Energy (GEEC), The Panoply Holdings (TPX)
Companies paying dividends: Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (0.75p), BAE Systems (13.8p), Persimmon (40p)
Tuesday 15 September
Economics: Claimant count, unemployment rate
Trading update: Ocado (OCDO)
Interims: Bango (BGO), Bonhill (BONH), Corero Network Security (CNS), Eve Sleep (EVE), French Connection (FCCN), Good Energy (GOOD), JTC (JTC), Kape Technologies (KAPE), Marshalls (MSLH), Polypipe (PLP), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), The Simplybiz Group (SBIZ), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Vectura (VEC)
Final: Diurnal (DNL)
AGMs: Cohort (CHRT), FirstGroup (FGP), Halfords (HFD), Wynnstay Property (WSP)
Companies paying dividends: Montanro European Smaller Companies (7.25p)
Wednesday 16 September
Economics: Consumer price index, producer price index, retail price index
Interims: Accesso Technology (ACSO), Advanced Medical Solutions (AMS), Central Asia Metals (CAML), Checkit (CKT), Futura (FUM), Ocean Outdoor (OOUT), Ormonde Mining (ORM), RBG Holdings (RBGP), Science In Sport (SIS)
Finals: Pan African Resources (PAF), Redde Northgate (REDD), Redrow (RDW)
AGMs: Auto Trader (AUTO), Best of the Best (BOTB), Eckoh (ECK), Games Workshop (GAW), Intercede (IGP), Mirada (MIRA), Plus500 (PLUS), Redcentric (RCN), Stenprop (STP), Surgical Innovations (SUN)
Companies paying dividends: Brunner Investment Trust (4.67p), Chenavari (1.85p, 11.13p special), Fresnillo (1.8p)
Thursday 17 September
Economics: Interest rate, retail sales
Interims: Hilton Food Group (HFG), Keywords Studios (KWS), Next (NXT), Oxford Biomedica (OXB), Playtech (PTEC), Regional REIT (RGL), Safestyle UK (SFE), Spire Healthcare (SPI)
Finals: Clinigen (CLIN), Duke Royalty (DUKE), Keir (KIE), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Thinksmart (TSL), Wilmington (WIL)
AGMs: Begbies Traynor (BEG), Fastforward Innovations (FFWD), FIH (FIH), Gresham House Strategic (GHS), IG Group (IGG), Ormonde Mining (ORM), Ryanair (RYA), Trakm8 (TRAK)
Companies paying dividends: Rio Tinto (119.74p), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (2p)
Friday 18 September
Trading updates: Investec (INVP)
Interims: Applegreen (APGN)
AGMs: Accsys Technologies (AXS), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Surgical Innovations (SUN)
Companies paying dividends: BioPharma Credit (1.75p), Cohort (6.9p), Domino’s Pizza (5.56p), Murray Income Trust (9.5p), PRS REIT (1p), Scottish American Investment Company (3p), SSE (56p), Ultra Electronics (39.2p), Witan Investment (1.34p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 17 September
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Base Resources | 1.944 | 07-Oct-20 |
| Best Of The Best Ord 5p | 3 | 02-Oct-20 |
| Boot (Henry) & Sons Ord 10p | 2.2 | 16-Oct-20 |
| Clipper Logistics | 6.2 | 05-Oct-20 |
| Concurrent Technologies Ord 1p | 1.1 | 02-Oct-20 |
| Hargreaves Services 10p | 4.5 | 30-Oct-20 |
| Henderson High Income Trust | 2.475 | 30-Oct-20 |
| Intertek Group Ord 1p | 34.2 | 08-Oct-20 |
| Totally Ord 1p | 0.25 | 16-Oct-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.
