February 24, 2010 – 11:46 pm
We can all probably guess the least favorite news in the eyes of investors. Yes, it’s the earnings warning: Pre-announcing a disappointment in the numbers produces the most negative response in stock price, a new study shows. The CXO Advisory blog, which reports daily on studies of investing theory and practice, provides a good summary [...]
January 1, 2010 – 10:24 pm
Just about everyone is happy to see 2009 fading into history and brighter prospects dawning with the new year. I share the enthusiasm for a new start, not to mention more favorable year-over-year comparisons. And I wish you personally a healthy and prosperous 2010.
The first question we confront, as communicators who will often cite the [...]
September 21, 2009 – 12:48 pm
As everyone knows, corporate earnings today commonly include two bottom lines: Companies report net income and EPS under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and then there’s a second number on the street that takes out one-time items. These metrics are commonly called GAAP earnings and “operating earnings,” without one-offs.
Over the years the gap between these two [...]
August 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
For a bit of comic relief check out “Mad Lib Earnings,” an all-too-true parody of earnings releases and the obligatory wire service stories that cover them. It’s Stanley Bing’s column on the last page of the August 17, 2009, Fortune magazine.
Bing’s fill-in-the-blanks earnings release makes our job easy. There’s a boilerplate quote from the CEO [...]
The good news is chief financial officers at the world’s top companies are a tad more optimistic than last quarter about when recovery will kick in and start benefitting their businesses, according to the Duke University/CFO “Global Business Outlook Survey” reported in the magazine’s July-August 2009 issue.
The bad news is – well, let’s skip over the [...]
Pearson, the parent company of the FT Publishing’s FT.com, recently reported quarterly earnings. PaidContent.org has good coverage and analysis of what’s going on.
First, for the positive metrics:
—Free FT.com memberships rose 211 percent to 1.4 million (just 12,000 in 2007). Average monthly uniques up 60 percent to 9.8 million.
—Paying subs up 18 percent to 117,000+.
—Online now [...]
Despite the wild economic ride we’re on, most companies haven’t stopped providing forward-looking guidance on earnings, according to a survey by the National Investor Relations Institute.
In an Executive Alert published May 18, NIRI says the practice of guidance continues to decline – but not very fast:
One might assume that the recent dramatic economic decline would [...]
SEVERAL months ago, Microvision (NASDAQ:MVIS) IR specialist Tiffany Bradford set out to research how small-cap companies were using blogs for investor relations.
She was referred to me by Shel Holtz, ABC, one of the leading advisors on the use of technology in public relations and corporate communications. I didn’t have a lot of concrete examples to [...]
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February 6, 2009 – 3:57 am
BUSINESS Wire, the press release distribution service owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BKR.B), has launched a PR assault designed to squash growing interest from investor relations customers in low-cost notice-and-access…
By Dominic Jones
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Also tagged berkshire hathaway, business, business wire, news, NIRI, notice-and-access, Online Investor Relations, releases, SEC, XBRL
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