Nuplex, due to report on Friday, fell 1.6 per cent to $4.32.
Summerset Group Holdings, the retirement village operator which will report today, retreated 1 per cent to $4.13. Steel & Tube Holdings which is reporting its financial statements on Friday, slipped 1.4 per cent to $2.78.
"There's a little bit of nervous apprehension going into it," said Ricky Ward, head of NZ equities at JB Were New Zealand.
"You've got companies trading on pretty high multiples. We all know why they are trading there, but you do need earnings to come through and justify that."
Contact Energy rose 0.8 per cent to $5.19. Origin sold its controlling stake in Contact for $4.65 a share last week, vastly boosting the liquidity and market weighting of the stock. Genesis Energy rose 1.2 per cent to $1.70. Meridian Energy was unchanged at $2.285. Mighty River Power advanced 1.1 per cent to $2.69.
Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, whose units are entitled to the dividends from Fonterra's ordinary shares, rose 0.4 per cent to $4.92.
Last week, the dairy company cut its farmgate milk payout forecast as expected, while offering financial support to its farmers and flagging a higher dividend.
"It was a clear upgrade," Ward said. "It's good for the unit holders, and it's not only bad for the farmers, in the sense they're offering a 50c interest free loan to help get them through some difficult times. The main things was their guidance was certainly better than what the market was expecting."
Kathmandu Holdings was unchanged at $1.74. The outdoor clothing and equipment chain which is the subject of a hostile takeover from Briscoe Group said chief operating officer and finance director Mark Todd had resigned.
Todd, who joined the company in 1998, was acting chief executive through most of the 2015 financial year pending the arrival of new chief executive Xavier Simonet on June 29.
"He was only acting CEO and he had no real great aspirations of being CEO in that he'd been there a while," Ward said. "The timing might not be ideal, it might be viewed a little bit negatively by some but I think he telegraphed to the market pretty well that he'd moved into another role and he was helping it transition more than anything else."
Metro Performance Glass led the benchmark index lower, down 4.5 per cent to $1.48. Pacific Edge, the biotech firm, was the best performer on the day, up 5 per cent to 63c.
Outside the benchmark index, Vista Group International fell 0.2 per cent to $5.99. The cinema software and analytics firm has rejigged its executive structure, appointing Kimbal Riley to head up its Vista Entertainment Solutions business.
