Ex-divs to take 0.8 points off FTSE 100 on May 26

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - The following FTSE 100 companies will go

ex-dividend on Thursday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the

latest dividend payout.

According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, the resulting

adjustment to prices by market-makers would take 0.83 points off the index.

COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND ESTIMATED

(pence) IMPACT

Carnival (LSE: CCL.L - news) 35 ($ cents) 0.1712671

DCC (LSE: DCC.L - news) 64.18 0.2198443

Whitbread (LSE: WTB.L - news) 61.85 0.4381986

Among FTSE 250 companies going ex-dividend are:

RIC COMPANY DIVIDEND (pence)

AMEC FOSTER 14.2

BREWIN DOLPHIN (LSE: BRW.L - news) 3.85

BRITVIC (Stuttgart: A0HMX9 - news) 7

CAPITAL&COUNTIES 1

DIPLOMA (LSE: DPLM.L - news) 6.2

EUROMONEY INST 7

HICL INF.

1.87

INCHCAPE (Other OTC: IHCPY - news) 14.1

MITCHELLS & BUT 2.5

MARSTON'S (Other OTC: UBGXF - news) 2.6

SPECTRIS (Other OTC: SEPJF - news) 32.2

RENEWABLES 1.5625

UDG HEALTHCARE (LSE: UDG.L - news) 3.05 (euro cent)

(Reporting by Alistair Smout; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)