SEEKING Alpha CEO David Jackson, whose company ranks as the largest provider of free earnings call transcripts, says companies have no grounds to claim copyright over their calls. He was reacting to the news that Swiss company Swatch Group is suing Bloomberg for transcribing and redistributing its Feb 8 invitation-only earnings call. The case is [...]
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SWISS watch company Swatch Group AG is suing Bloomberg for distributing a recording and transcript of its latest earnings call, but the case could have unintended consequences for the company and its European peers. The world’s largest watchmaker filed a copyright infringement suit saying Bloomberg was not invited to its earnings call with a select [...]
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AS EARNINGS season comes to a close, public companies continue to demonstrate an increasing focus on using their earnings calls to be more social, interactive, and transparent. The following are some recent examples that I have noticed: 1. Allotting more time for investor questions: Ex. 1: “Based on the feedback we’ve received from many of [...]
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A TEAM of German researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt have published a study that finds evidence to suggest that corporate executives are sharing material, non-public information in private earnings calls and conferences with select groups of invited analysts. The authors point out that there is no European equivalent of Regulation FD in the United States, [...]
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WHAT a difference a quarter makes! Back in August we showcased 10 companies that used Twitter to distribute information about their Q2 earnings announcements, so we thought we would check in to see how they’re doing this quarter. And are there ever some surprises. It seems that tweeting earnings information is generally not generating nearly [...]
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SLIDESHARE, best known as a presentation sharing service, has launched three new paid accounts with features that may appeal to investor relations departments looking for ways to spread their stories online and improve the user experience of their IR websites. A growing number of companies are using SlideShare for investor relations presentations. The main reasons [...]
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NEWS this week from the Wall Street Journal that academics have found key language markers of executive deception on earnings calls won’t come as a surprise to some of the world’s biggest hedge funds. That’s because they have for years used advanced detection techniques devised by the US intelligence community and sophisticated voice analyzing software [...]
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PERHAPS I’m old-fashioned, but when a company uses a service like Twitter to tell followers about company earnings, I expect them to make a reasonable effort to post the news simultaneously to other channels. There’s no point in tweeting investor news if the people getting it are the last to know. For investors, timing is [...]
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ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls.
Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) h…
eBay and other leading tech companies’ shallow earnings call archiving practices raise questions about their transparency.
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