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 19/22p | 17.5 | 13 Jan 21 |
Alliance Trust ord Stk 2.5p | 3.595 | 31 Dec 20 |
AVI Global Trust | 10.5 | 4 Jan 21 |
Big Yellow ord 10p | 17 | 8 Jan 21 |
Bunzl ord 32 1/7p | 15.8 | 7 Jan 21 |
ContourGlobal | 3.1139 | 29 Dec 20 |
Devro ord 10p | 2.7 | 15 Jan 21 |
Fidelity Special Values ord 5p | 3.7 | 14 Jan 21 |
Finncap | 0.5 | 18 Dec 20 |
Hill & Smith ord 25p | 9.2 | 8 Jan 21 |
Pan African Resources ord 1p | 0.6545 | 15 Dec 20 |
Premier Global Infrastructure | 2.5 | 30 Dec 20 |
RDI Reit | 5 | 22 Dec 20 |
RM Secured Direct Lending | 1.625 | 30 Dec 20 |
Scottish Oriental Smlr Co Tst ord 25p | 11.5 | 15 Jan 21 |
Town Centre Securities ord 25p | 1.75 | 5 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.