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Week Ahead: 5-9 October

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
October 1, 2020

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 1p3.4605-Nov-20
Begbies Traynor  Ord 5p1.905-Nov-20
Cake Box3.223-Oct-20
Close Brothers Ord 25p4030-Oct-20
Curtis Banks2.513-Nov-20
EMIS Ord 1p1605-Nov-20
European Assets Trust1.75530-Oct-20
F&C Investment Trust2.902-Nov-20
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund230-Oct-20
JPM Mid Cap Inv Tst Ord 25p21.513-Nov-20
K3 Capital3.827-Oct-20
Learning Technologies0.2530-Nov-20
Learning Technologies0.2530-Oct-20
NCC Ord 1p3.1506-Nov-20
PZ Cussons Ord 10p3.1303-Dec-20
Spirax-Sarco Engineering Ord 25p33.506-Nov-20
Strix2.630-Oct-20
Tandem Ord 4p3.1210-Nov-20
Witan Pacific IT Ord 25p2.5530-Oct-20
WPP1006-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.