By IR Web Report on September 1, 2010
STOCK charts are seldom a primary reason for investors to visit corporate investor relations websites, but no IR website is complete without them. That’s why free stock charts make a lot of sense for companies of any size. The good news for companies is that there are now more free chart options available thanks to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged free stock charts, stock charts, stock quotes
By IR Web Report on August 31, 2010
EVENT calendars on investor relations websites are one of the most important features companies can offer – but the calendar tools available from all IR website vendors today are little changed from what they were 10 years ago. A few enterprising IR departments, however, have discovered what is arguably the most powerful and versatile calendaring [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged calendar apps, calendars, investor events, MarkThisDate, online calendars
By IR Web Report on August 23, 2010
NEWS today from the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) that only 7% of retail investors say they monitor social media for investing purposes has been wrongly interpreted as a rejection of social media as an information source. The fact is, these results need to be put into context. Retail investors in Australia are highly unlikely [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged AIRA, Australia, New Zealand, retail investors, social media, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on August 20, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers. Sponsor us Yep, we’re selling our souls to a few good sponsors. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything. But seriously, 6,000+ monthly readers is nothing to sniff at. Check out the SNL ad on the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Corporate Blogs, hedge funds, social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2010
STOCKTWITS, the growing investor and trader microblogging service, has introduced a new investor relations service that enables companies to provide verified information and better engage with their online investor audiences. The StockTwits IR service, which is still in beta testing, is currently being used by technology giant Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), exchange company CME Group Inc. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, social media, stocktwits
By IR Web Report on August 18, 2010
TWITTER is becoming a popular way for investor relations departments to alert the market to important news, but many companies are not taking full advantage of all the features the service provides. One of the more useful features that gets little attention is the Twitter lists function. Lists give you the ability to compile groups [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 17, 2010
MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information. And more companies are likely to follow suit in coming quarters after rule changes by the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged adrs, disclosure, international IR, IR websites, SEC filings
By IR Web Report on August 16, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged content sharing, earnings calls, presentations, slideshare, social media
By IR Web Report on August 16, 2010
A NEW study has found that when CEOs take responsibility for financial restatements and deliver the bad news via online video, investors’ trust in management rises and they recommend larger investments in the firm. Researchers designed a simulation using a former television news presenter posing as a CEO. They found that when he accepted full [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged credibility, executive communications, trust, video, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on August 13, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers. How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, google finance, Investor Relations, social media, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 13, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged deception, earnings calls, voice analysis
By IR Web Report on August 12, 2010
RICH DALY, the CEO of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), has responded to investor concerns about the potential impact on his company of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy system review, saying critics want to take the system back 45 years and companies’ costs could more than double in an unregulated market. Speaking on [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged broadridge financial solutions inc, Investor Relations, proxy plumbing, proxy services
By IR Web Report on August 12, 2010
EARNINGS reporting practices are evolving and becoming more complicated as companies increasingly integrate social media channels into their distribution circuits — and one good example is the closely watched technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) Yesterday, Cisco reported its Q4 2010 results after the regular Nasdaq trading hours but during a very active after-hours session [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, facebook pages, social media, time stamps, twitter, web disclosure, YouTube
By IR Web Report on August 11, 2010
STUART CROSBY, the CEO of Australia-based Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU), the world’s biggest transfer agent business and main rival to Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), has praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept paper on improving the US proxy system. In a presentation to analysts on announcing his company’s full-year 2010 results, Crosby said the concept paper [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged broadridge financial solutions inc, proxy plumbing, proxy services
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