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 16 November
Interims: Kainos (KNOS), Vodafone (VOD)
Final: Diploma (DPLM)
AGM: Smiths (SMIN)
Companies paying dividends: Qinetiq (4.4p), Bunzl (35.8p), Invesco Perpetual Select Trust (1.5p), Invesco Perpetual Select Global (1.55p)
Tuesday 17 November
Trading updates: Aggreko (AGK), Nostrum Oil and Gas (NOG), Ocean Outdoor (OOUT)
Interims: Adept Technology (ADT), Assura (AGR), Big Yellow (BYG), Experian (EXPN), Gear4Music (G4M), Homeserve (HSV), Intermediate Capital (ICP), Ninety One (N91), Palace Capital (PCA), Redcentric (RCN), Scapa (SCPA), Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (SREI), System1 (SYS1), Telecom Plus (TEP)
Finals: easyJet (EZJ), Focusrite (TUNE), Genedrive (GDR), Imperial Brands (IMB), Petra Diamonds (PDL)
AGMs: Craneware (CRW), Dunelm (DNLM), Eagle Eye Solutions (EYE), Marwyn Value Investors (MVI), Physiomics (PYC), Scancell (SCLP)
Wednesday 18 November
Economics: Consumer price index, producer price index, retail price index
Trading updates: Breedon (BREE), DP Eurasia NV (DPEU), Safestore (SAFE), TBC Bank (TBCG)
Interims: British Land (BLND), Halfords (HFD), Speedy Hire (SDY), SSE (SSE), Tatton Asset Management (TAM)
Final: Avon Rubber (AVON)
AGMs: Avingtrans (AVG), Beeks Financial Cloud (BKS), Henderson Eurotrust (HNE), Orient Telecoms (ORNT), Origin Enterprises (OGN), Picton Property Income (PCTN), Rainbow Rare Earths (RBW)
Companies paying dividends: Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (2.25p), Strategic Equity Capital (1.25p)
Thursday 19 November
Economics: Retail sales
Trading updates: Card Factory (CARD), Close Brothers (CBG), Headlam (HEAD), Keller (KLR), Kingfisher (KGF)
Interims: Charles Stanley (CAY), CMC Markets (CMCX), Halma (HLMA), Investec (INVP), Jet2 (JET2), Johnson Matthey (JMAT), LondonMetric Property (LMP). Mitie (MTO), Polar Capital (POLR), Royal Mail (RMG), SRT Marine Systems (SRT), Syncona (SYNC)
Finals: Euromoney Institutional Investors (ERM), Grainger (GRI)
AGMs: Close Brothers (CBG), Finsbury Food (FIF), FW Thorpe (TFW), Infrastructure India (IIP), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Maestrano (MNO)
Companies paying dividends: Murray International Trust (12p), M Winkworth (1.8p), STM (0.55p)
Friday 20 November
Economics: Public sector net borrowing
Interims: Argentex (AGFX), Immunodiagnostic Systems (IDH), Nationwide Building Society (NBS)
Finals: Sage (SGE)
AGMs: Base Resources (BSE), Crystal Amber Fund (CRS), Diurnal (DNL), GSTechnologies (GST), MC Mining (MCM), Salt Lake Potash (SO4)
Companies paying dividends: Air Partner (0.8p), Animalcare (2p), Cenkos Securities (1p), JPM Japan Smaller Companies (5.5p), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (1.31p), National Milk Records (1.25p), Primary Health Properties (1.475p), River and Mercantile (2.34p, 2.81p), S&U (22p), Smiths (11p, 24p), US Solar Fund GBP (0.395p), Warpaint London (1.5p, 1.3p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 19 November
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Asia Dragon Trust | 4.75 | 15 Dec 20 |
| British & American Inv Tst ord Shs £1 | 2.7 | 10 Dec 20 |
| Craneware ord 1p | 15 | 15 Dec 20 |
| Genus ord 10p | 19.7 | 11 Dec 20 |
| London Finance & Investment 5p | 0.6 | 2 Dec 20 |
| Scottish American Inv Co ord 25p | 3 | 18 Dec 20 |
| Smurfit Kappa ord €0.001 | 25.36 | 11 Dec 20 |
| Tate & Lyle ord 25p | 8.8 | 6 Jan 21 |
| Vivo Energy | 2.03 | 18 Dec 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.
