LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices on Friday.----------FTSE 100 - LOSERS----------easyJet, down 1.4%. JPMorgan has cut its rating for the stock to Neutral from Overweight. ----------FTSE 250 - WINNERS----------Greencoat UK Wind, up 2.4%. The investor upped its annual payout following an increase in net asset value per share over 2018. The mid-cap company, which invests in UK wind farms, reported NAV of GBP1.39 billion as at December 31, or 123.1 pence per share. As at the end of 2017, Greencoat's NAV was GBP1.14 billion, or 111.2p a share. Greencoat declared a dividend of 1.69p per share for the final quarter of 2018, taking the total payout for the year to 6.76p per share, up from 6.49p paid the year prior. For 2019, the company is targeting a dividend of 6.94p per share. During the quarter, Greencoat said power generation was on budget and power prices were above budget, while generation for the full year was 6% below budget, due to low wind resource. Cash generation for 2018 was on budget owing to higher power prices, the company noted.----------FTSE 250 - LOSERS----------Sophos, down 20%. The IT firm reported a "subdued billings performance" for the third quarter of its financial year, which is expected to continue into the final quarter. For the three months to the end of December, billings dipped by 0.6% to USD193.7 million from USD194.0 million. For the nine-month period, billings increased slightly by 1.9% to USD546.4 million from USD536.3 million. Sophos attributed the subdued performance to a "modest decline" in billings from new customers, and a decline in hardware billings. This led to earnings before interest, taxes, deprecation and amortisation declining by 8.3% for the nine-month period to USD103.9 million from USD113.3 million. The group expects third quarter trends to continue into the final quarter of its financial year, which would lead to a modest decline in constant currency billings.----------OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - WINNERS----------Ironveld, up 35%. The miner anticipates reaching a long-term agreement with a potential off-take partner in the next three weeks, as it has delivered ore samples from its South African project for testing. At the end of September, Ironveld began supplying 10,000 tons of ore to an undisclosed company, which is a unit of an international steel group. Ironveld has now delivered sufficient tonnage to the potential off-taker for the potential client to undertake a full kiln smelting test and expects to receive the outcome of the test in the next three weeks. Upon completion, Ironveld anticipates that a long term agreement with the off-take partner will be reached. ----------LoopUp, up 7.8%. The remote meetings firm announced a "material" contract renewal with law firm Clifford Chance. The contract is worth GBP2.3 million and will last for three years. LoopUp will provide conference calls across Clifford Chance's global operations, which span 32 "major" financial centres around the world. LoopUp said its services are normally pay-as-you-go, but Clifford Chance agreed to a guaranteed minimum spend, which LoopUp said "is a mark of their commitment to the group's differentiated product over the long-term".----------OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - LOSERS----------Record, down 9.5%. The currency manager reported a 6.5% drop in assets under management equivalents in the third quarter due to the termination of a previously announced mandate and movements in global stock markets and currency exchange rates. The company's assets under management equivalents as at December 31 totalled USD57.8 billion, down from USD61.8 billion on September 30. In sterling terms, assets fell to GBP45.4 billion from GBP47.4 billion. Record had 65 clients at period end, down 1 from 66 at the start of the period. Movements in global equities and other markets dented the company's assets under management equivalents by USD2.0 billion, while currency exchange rate movements and mandate volatility shaved off USD900 million.----------
UK dividends calendar - next 7 days
Friday 10 May | |
AIB Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Alpha Group International PLC | dividend payment date |
Antofagasta PLC | dividend payment date |
Hammerson PLC | dividend payment date |
Hunting PLC | dividend payment date |
International Personal Finance PLC | dividend payment date |
Invesco Select Trust Global Equity Income PLC | dividend payment date |
Invesco Select Trust UK Equity PLC | dividend payment date |
Johnson Service Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Kerry Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv Co PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder European Real Estate Investments Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Oriental Income Fund Ltd | dividend payment date |
Serco Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Somero Enterprises Inc | special dividend payment date |
Taylor Wimpey PLC | dividend payment date |
Tufton Oceanic Assets Ltd | dividend payment date |
VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC | dividend payment date |
Monday 13 May | |
Games Workshop Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Life Science REIT PLC | dividend payment date |
Seed Innovations Ltd | special dividend payment date |
Smiths Group PLC | dividend payment date |
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd | dividend payment date |
Tuesday 14 May | |
BlackRock World Mining Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Fidelity European Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Mondi PLC | dividend payment date |
OSB Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Rathbones Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Uniphar PLC | dividend payment date |
Wednesday 15 May | |
Capital Ltd | dividend payment date |
Grit Real Estate Income Group Ltd | dividend payment date |
Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd | dividend payment date |
Just Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Rentokil Initial PLC | dividend payment date |
Thursday 16 May | |
abrdn Property Income Trust Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Alternative Income REIT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Aquila European Renewables PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Balfour Beatty PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
BP PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Bunzl PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Churchill China PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
EJF Investments Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Essentra PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Fevertree Drinks PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
FRP Advisory Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Greencoat UK Wind PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
GSK PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Haleon PLC | dividend payment date |
Henderson Opportunities Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Income & Growth VCT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Irish Continental Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
James Halstead PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Jarvis Securities PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Kingfisher PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
M Winkworth PLC | dividend payment date |
Majedie Investments PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
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Mercantile Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Morgan Sindall Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Murray Income Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Ocean Wilsons Holdings Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
PageGroup PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
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Prudential PLC | dividend payment date |
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Shell PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
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Tesco PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Unilever PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Vaalco Energy Inc | ex-dividend payment date |
Vector Capital PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Witan Investment Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
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