The stock market week ahead: 21-25 August

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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 21 August

AGMs: Calculus VCT (CLC)

Companies paying dividends: Bank of Ireland (63.125p), SLF Realisation Fund (2.5p)

 

Tuesday 22 August

Economics: Public sector net borrowing 

Trading updates: RUA Life Sciences (RUA)

Interims: Anexo Group (ANX), Empresaria Group (EMR), Mirriad Advertising (MIRI), Nostrum Oil & Gas (NOG), Wood Group (John) (WG.)

AGMs: Cake Box Holdings (CBOX), RUA Life Sciences (RUA), Smoove (SMV), STM Group (STM)

 

 

Wednesday 23 August 

AGMs: Brandshield Systems (BRSD), Latham (James) (LTHM)

Companies paying dividends: Axiom European Financial Debt (1.5p), Porvair (2p)

 

Thursday 24 August 

Trading updates: Benchmark Holdings (BMK)

Interims: CRH (CRH), Hunting (HTG), Macfarlane Group (MACF), Tribal Group (TRB)

Finals: Cropper (James) (CRPR), Hays (HAS)

AGMs: Concurrent Technologies (CNC), CyanConnode Holdings (CYAN), Nuformix (NFX), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG)

Companies paying dividends: Hercules Site Services (0.6p), JPMorgan Asia Growth and Income (3.9p), Merchants Trust plc (7.1p), QinetiQ Group (5.3p)

 

Friday 25 August

Economics: GFK consumer confidence

Interims: Holders Technology (HDT)

AGMs: Ormonde Mining (ORM)

Companies paying dividends: Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (12.95), Abrdn Asian Income Fund (2.5), Alternative Income REIT (1.92p), Aptitude Software Group (1.8p), Atrato Onsite Energy (1.25p), Bellevue Healthcare Trust (2.95p), Bloomsbury Publishing (10.34), Calculus VCT (2.95p), D4T4 Solutions (2.15p), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (3.2p), Foresight Solar Fund (1.88p), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (1.58125p), Greencoat UK Wind (2.19p), Hansa Investment Company (0.8p), Henderson Far East Income (6.1p), International Biotechnology Trust (14.2p), M&G Credit Income Investment Trust (1.93p), Marwyn Value Investors (2.265p), Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 (0.5p), Nexteq (3p), Rathbones Group (29p), Rotala (0.5p), Schroder Oriental Income Fund (2p), Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (0.836p), Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund Ltd (1.71875p), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (1.375p), Target Healthcare REIT (1.4p), Volex (2.6p)

 

 

Companies going ex-dividend on 24 August
Company Dividend (p) Pay date
abrdn Asia Focus 1.61 20-Sep-2023
Arbuthnot Banking Group 19 22-Sep-2023
Artemis Alpha Trust 3.87 29-Sep-2023
Atalaya Mining $0.05 28-Sep-2023
Atlantis Japan Growth Fund 1.96 29-Sep-2023
Auto Trader Group 5.6 22-Sep-2023
Aviva 11.1 5-Oct-2023
Brickability Group 2.15 21-Sep-2023
Carr’s Group 1.175 29-Sep-2023
Cohort 9.15 3-Oct-2023
Diageo 49.17 12-Oct-2023
Drax Group 9.2 6-Oct-2023
Fair Oaks Income $0.02 21-Sep-2023
Fair Oaks Income Realisation $0.02 21-Sep-2023
Glanbia €0.14 6-Oct-2023
Haleon 1.8 5-Oct-2023
Hammerson 0.72 2-Oct-2023
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst 19 9-Oct-2023
HICL Infrastructure 2.06 29-Sep-2023
Ibstock 3.4 15-Sep-2023
Just Group 0.58 4-Oct-2023
Land Securities Group 9 6-Oct-2023
Legal & General Group 5.71 26-Sep-2023
Molten Ventures VCT 0.5 29-Sep-2023
Mondi €0.23 29-Sep-2023
Northern Bear 3 15-Sep-2023
OSB Group 10.2 20-Sep-2023
Personal Assets Trust 1.4 6-Oct-2023
Plus500 $0.7344 9-Nov-2023
RHI Magnesita NV €0.55 22-Sep-2023
Rights and Issues Investment Trust 11.75 25-Sep-2023
Shaftesbury Capital 1.5 18-Sep-2023
St. James’s Place 15.83 22-Sep-2023
Temple Bar Investment Trust 2.3 29-Sep-2023
Wheaton Precious Metals $0.15 7-Sep-2023
Witan Investment Trust 1.45 15-Sep-2023
XPS Pensions Group 5.7 21-Sep-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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