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National Grid, Intertek and Kingfisher drag on FTSE in busy ex-dividend day Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock <\/p>\n National Grid, Intertek and Kingfisher drag on FTSE in busy ex-dividend day Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock <\/p>\n
National Grid PLC (LSE:NG.)<\/a>,\u00a0Associated British Foods PLC (LSE:ABF)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kingfisher PLC (LSE:KGF)<\/a>\u00a0are among the companies acting as a drag on the\u00a0FTSE 100 on Thursday, as part of a busy batch of blue-chip stocks trading ex-dividend.<\/p>\n The largest effect on the index will be the electricity transmission group, which is expected to knock about 6.75 points off the index after going ex-dividend for its latest 32.14p shareholder payout.<\/p>\n Severn Trent PLC (LSE:SVT)<\/a> is forecast to account for the next largest adjustment at 0.96 points, followed by Informa PLC (LSE:INF)<\/a>\u00a0at 0.80 points, Intertek Group PLC (LSE:ITRK)<\/a> at 0.69 points and Kingfisher at 0.61 points.<\/p>\n Other FTSE 100 companies trading without entitlement to their latest dividends include DCC PLC (LSE:DCC)<\/a>, AB Foods, Alliance Witan PLC (LSE:ALW)<\/a>\u00a0and Diploma PLC (LSE:DPLM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n In total, the ex-dividend moves are expected to shave about 10.8 points from the blue-chip index in early trading.<\/p>\n There is also a sizeable batch of ex-dividend moves on the FTSE 250, led by Keller Group PLC (LSE:KLR)<\/a>, Hill & Smith Holdings PLC (LSE:HILS)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hilton Food Group PLC (LSE:HFG)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vesuvius, Gamma Communications and Victrex are also among the mid-cap stocks trading without entitlement to their latest dividends, alongside Breedon Group, Temple Bar Investment Trust and SSP Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Grid, Intertek and Kingfisher drag on FTSE in busy ex-dividend day Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21249],"tags":[25344,22201,6224,320,1835,8295,25340,25343,25341,25339,2580,25342],"class_list":["post-50702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national-grid","tag-dcc-plc","tag-ex-dividend","tag-ftse","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-100-companies","tag-informa-plc","tag-intertek","tag-keller-group-plc","tag-kingfisher","tag-kingfisher-plc","tag-national-grid","tag-severn-trent-plc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116651273944610084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}