Friday Email: 23 May 2026

Every Friday morning our lead analyst Mark Riding sends out his weekly run-down and upcoming events in the investor calendar, like this one:

The FTSE 100 has had a good week and is up 277 points (2.72%) on the week. The S&P 500 is flat and the Stoxx 600 is up 3.14%.

The past week has been busy from a reporting perspective. 

The week ahead is less so.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Card Factory (5.3%), RTC Group (4.5%), Hilton Food Group (4.5%), Vesuvius (3.75%) and Breedon Group for 3.6%.

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 22 May 2026

The Friday email is delivered to over 20,000 subscriber’s every week, and remains a widely read run-down of recent events and what investors can expect in the week ahead written by our chief analyst Mark Riding.

It’s included as part of the free DividendMax trial.