The stock market week ahead: 6-10 November

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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 6 November

Economics: PMI construction

Trading updates: Kosmos Energy (KOS)

Companies paying dividends: Bluefield Solar Income Fund (2.3p)

 

Tuesday 7 November 

Economics: Retail sales, Halifax house price index

Trading updates: Beazley (BEZ), Direct Line Insurance Group (DLG), Hilton Food Group (HFG), IWG (IWG), Luceco (LUCE), Persimmon (PSN)

Interims: 3i Infrastructure (3IN)

Finals: Associated British Foods (ABF), dotDigital Group (DOTD)

AGMs: Murray Income Trust (MUT), Time Finance (TIME)

 

Wednesday 8 November

Trading updates: Dignity (DTY), Hiscox (HSX), ITV (ITV), JD Wetherspoon (JDW), Secure Trust Bank (STB)

Interims: Marks & Spencer Group (MKS)

Finals: Smiths News (SNWS), Time Out Group (TMO)

AGMs: JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust (JMG)

Companies paying dividends: Income & Growth VCT (7p), Manchester & London Investment Trust (7p), Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT (6p), Mobeus Income & Growth 4 VCT (6p), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (4.5)

 

Thursday 9 November

Economics: RICS housing market survey

Trading updates: Apax Global Alpha (APAX), AstraZeneca (AZN), Domino’s Pizza Group (DOM), Endeavour Mining (EDV), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), Indivior (INDV), John Wood Group (WG.), Lancashire Holdings (LRE), S4 Capital (SFOR), Taylor Wimpey (TW.), Vistry Group (VTY)

Interims: 3i Group (III), Auto Trader Group (AUTO), Cropper (James) (CRPR), National Grid (NG.), Renewi (RWI), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Wincanton (WIN), Wizz Air Holdings (WIZZ)

Finals: WH Smith (SMWH)

AGMs: Libertine Holdings (LIB), UIL (UTL)

Companies paying dividends: Octopus AIM VCT 2 (1.8p), Plus500 ($0.3219)

 

Friday 10 November

Economics: Balance of trade, gross domestic product, index of services, industrial production, manufacturing production

Trading updates: Allianz Technology Trust (ATT)

Interims: Castings (CGS)

AGMs: DFS Furniture (DFS), Galliford Try Holdings (GFRD), Redrow (RDW)

Companies paying dividends: Bodycote (6.7p), Breedon Group (4p), Chesnara (8.36p), Finsbury Growth & Income Trust (10.5p), Invesco Bond Income Plus (2.875p), JPMorgan Emerging Markets Invest Trust (1.07p), Kerry Group (€0.35), LSL Property Services (4p), Merchants Trust (7.1p), Mid Wynd International Investment Trust (5.65p), Montanaro UK Smaller Cos Investment Trust (1.1p), Puma Alpha VCT (5p), Senior (0.6p), Spectris (25.3p), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (46p), Travis Perkins (12.5p)

Companies going ex-dividend on 9 November
Company Dividend (p) Pay date
abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust 14.75 24-Nov-2023
Airtel Africa $0.0238 15-Dec-2023
Anpario 3.2 24-Nov-2023
BioVentix 90 24-Nov-2023
BP $0.0727 19-Dec-2023
British Smaller Companies VCT 2 8-Dec-2023
Burford Capital $0.0625 7-Dec-2023
C&C Group €0.02 1-Dec-2023
Catalyst Media Group 27 21-Nov-2023
Chenavari Toro Income Fund €0.02 8-Dec-2023
CVC Income & Growth EURO €0.02 1-Dec-2023
CVC Income & Growth GBP 1.875 1-Dec-2023
Galliford Try Holdings 7.5 8-Dec-2023
Genus 21.7 8-Dec-2023
Greencoat Renewables €0.02 1-Dec-2023
Greencoat UK Wind 2.19 24-Nov-2023
HSBC Holdings $0.1 21-Dec-2023
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Cos IT 3.85 8-Dec-2023
NCC Group 3.15 8-Dec-2023
Picton Property Income 0.875 30-Nov-2023
Princess Private Equity Holding €0.37 15-Dec-2023
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust 2.3 20-Dec-2023
Softcat 29.6 19-Dec-2023
Sthree 5 8-Dec-2023
Touchstar 1 8-Dec-2023
Warpaint London 3 24-Nov-2023

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.

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