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 5 October
Economics: House price index, PMI services
Trading update: Wizz Air (WIZZ)
Final: Quadrise Fuels International (QFI)
AGM: Phimedix (PHM)
Company paying dividend: British Smaller Companies VCT 2 (2p)
Tuesday 6 October
Economics: PMI construction
Interims: Harworth (HWG), Inspiration Healthcare (IHC), The Restaurant Group (RTN)
Finals: Hyve (HYVE), YouGov (YOU)
AGM: Cake Box (CBOX)
Company paying dividend: Rathbone Brothers (25p)
Wednesday 7 October
Interims: Tesco (TSCO), Vertu (VTU)
AGMs: Argo (ARGO), Frasers (FRAS), Goodwin (GDWN), Mountfield (MOGP)
Company paying dividend: London Metric Property (2.1p)
Thursday 8 October
Trading updates: CMC Markets (CMCX), Electrocomponents (ECM), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Motorpoint (MOTR), Robert Walters (RWA),
Interim: Phoenix Global Resources (PGR)
AGMs: Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), PurpleBricks (PURP)
Companies paying dividends: Diageo (42.47p), GlaxoSmithKline (19p), Intertek (34.2p)
Friday 9 October
Final: JD Wetherspoon (JDW)
Companies paying dividends: Goodwin (81.71p), Personal Assets Trust (140p), XP Power (18p), Zotefoams (2.03p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 8 October
Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
Anglo Asian Mining Ord 1p | 3.46 | 05-Nov-20 |
Begbies Traynor Ord 5p | 1.9 | 05-Nov-20 |
Cake Box | 3.2 | 23-Oct-20 |
Close Brothers Ord 25p | 40 | 30-Oct-20 |
Curtis Banks | 2.5 | 13-Nov-20 |
EMIS Ord 1p | 16 | 05-Nov-20 |
European Assets Trust | 1.755 | 30-Oct-20 |
F&C Investment Trust | 2.9 | 02-Nov-20 |
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund | 2 | 30-Oct-20 |
JPM Mid Cap Inv Tst Ord 25p | 21.5 | 13-Nov-20 |
K3 Capital | 3.8 | 27-Oct-20 |
Learning Technologies | 0.25 | 30-Nov-20 |
Learning Technologies | 0.25 | 30-Oct-20 |
NCC Ord 1p | 3.15 | 06-Nov-20 |
PZ Cussons Ord 10p | 3.13 | 03-Dec-20 |
Spirax-Sarco Engineering Ord 25p | 33.5 | 06-Nov-20 |
Strix | 2.6 | 30-Oct-20 |
Tandem Ord 4p | 3.12 | 10-Nov-20 |
Witan Pacific IT Ord 25p | 2.55 | 30-Oct-20 |
WPP | 10 | 06-Nov-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.