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Week ahead: 30 Nov - 4 Dec

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
November 26, 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 30 November  

Trading updates: CentralNic (CNIC)

Interims: Civitas Social Housing (CSH), DiscoverIE (DSCV), Draper Esprit (GROW), Omega Diagnostics (ODX), Panoply (TPX), St James House (SJH), Victoria (VCP)

AGMs: Advance Energy (ADV), Europa Metals (EUZ), Oncimmune (ONC), OPG Power Ventures (OPG), Pensana Rare Earths (PRE), Seeing Machines (SEE), Vast Resources (VAST)

Companies paying dividends: BAE Systems (9.4p), Bankers Investment Trust (5.42p), BMO Commercial Property Trust (0.5p), City of London Investment Trust (4.75p), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (1.26p), CQS New City High Yield Fund (1p), Diverse Income Trust (1.05p), Ecofin GBL Utilities & Infrastructure Trust (1.65p), Ediston Property Investment Company (0.333p), EJF (2.675p), Henderson International Income Trust (1.5p), Hipgnosis Songs Fund (1.3125p), IG Design (5.75p), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (0.75p), Jupiter UK Growth Investment Trust (5p), Learning Technologies (0.25p), M&G Credit Income Investment Trust (0.71p), Morgan Sindall (21p), New Star Investment Trust (1.4p), Schroders Oriental Income Fund (4.6p), Standard Life Investment Property Income Trust (0.714p)

 

Tuesday 1 December   

Economics: PMI manufacturing 

Interims: Bilby (BILB), Iomart (IOM), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), Sosandar (SOS), Tekmar (TGP)

Finals: Gooch & Housego (GHH), Hyve (HYVE), Urban&Civic (UANC)

AGMs: Aeorema Communications (AEO), Tristel (TSTL)

Companies paying dividends: EKF Diagnostics (1p), JPMorgan China Growth & Income (5.7p) 

 

Wednesday 2 December

Economics: BRC shop price index, PMI construction

Trading update: Wizz Air (WIZZ)

Finals: Avon Rubber (AVON), Ixico (IXI), Stock Spirits (STCK)

AGMs: Brighton Pier (PIER), Kingswood (KWG), Target Healthcare Reit (THRL), Tri-Star Resources (TSTR)

Companies paying dividends: Clinigen (5.46p), London Finance & Investment (0.6p)

 

Thursday 3 December 

Economics: PMI services, retail sales 

Interim: Marlowe (MRL)

Finals: AJ Bell (AJB), Caretech (CTH), Countryside Properties (CSP), Oxford Metrics (OMG), Paragon Banking (PAG)

AGMs: Ferguson (FERG), Jubilee Metals (JLP), Marwyn Value Investors (MVI), MJ Gleeson (GLE), Nanoco (NANO), Ormonde Mining (ORM), Pipehawk (PIP)

Company paying dividend: PZ Cussons (3.13p)

 

Friday 4 December

Interim: Stenprop (STP)

AGMs: Abcam (ABC), Associated British Foods (ABF), Ruffer Investment (RICA) 

Companies paying dividends: B&M European Value Retail (4.3p, 25p), Bloomsbury Publishing (1.28p), Investment Company (1p), JPM Claverhouse (6.5p), New Century AIM VCT (1.5p), Scottish Mortgage (1.45p), Vesuvius (3.1p)

Companies going ex-dividend on 3 December

Company Dividend (p)Pay date
3i Ord  73 19/22p17.513 Jan 21
Alliance Trust ord Stk 2.5p3.59531 Dec 20
AVI Global Trust10.54 Jan 21
Big Yellow ord 10p178 Jan 21
Bunzl ord 32 1/7p15.87 Jan 21
ContourGlobal3.113929 Dec 20
Devro ord 10p2.715 Jan 21
Fidelity Special Values ord 5p3.714 Jan 21
Finncap0.518 Dec 20
Hill & Smith ord 25p9.28 Jan 21
Pan African Resources ord 1p0.654515 Dec 20
Premier Global Infrastructure2.530 Dec 20
RDI Reit522 Dec 20
RM Secured Direct Lending1.62530 Dec 20
Scottish Oriental Smlr Co Tst ord 25p11.515 Jan 21
Town Centre Securities ord 25p1.755 Jan 21

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.