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Google brings transparency to the earnings call question queue
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) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — and [...]
eBay’s lawyers are wrong to delete earnings call information
eBay and other leading tech companies’ shallow earnings call archiving practices raise questions about their transparency.
Time to open up your earnings calls to bloggers
AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question.
The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national television [...]
Lack of earnings call archives attracts attention
A lack of earnings conference call archives on companies’ investor relations websites has attracted attention from an SEC committee, but it is not suggesting regulatory action. Indeed, a lack of archives might be a useful indicator for investors.
IR research the Web 2.0 way — free!
AS THE US first quarter earnings season officially got underway with yesterday’s results from Dow component Alcoa Inc., IR departments were preparing to monitor their peers’ results and release their own numbers.
Knowing what competitors are saying and getting a feel for the types of questions analysts are asking can help companies prepare for their earnings [...]
Democratizing the earnings call
INVESTORS in US-listed stocks will notice something different this quarter when they visit Yahoo! Finance to catch up on the latest corporate earnings results.
For the first time, they will have free access to full-text transcripts of earnings conference calls on approximately 2,500 companies thanks to Seeking Alpha, a firm started by former Wall Street research [...]
Shareholder.com clients should read this
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites.
The EU regulators are concerned that Google’s tracking practices violate privacy protections in Europe. However, when you compare what Google is doing [...]
Google Finance adds company events, news RSS
By Dominic Jones
GOOGLE Finance has just been upgraded in the past few hours to add information on company events like earnings call webcasts and upcoming events that integrate with Google Calendar.
The screenshot below shows the new Events module on the Google Finance page for Zimmer Holdings, Inc. By clicking on the webcast links, you can [...]
Transcripts a sign of transparency
WHY don’t more companies provide transcripts of their earnings conference calls and investor presentations on their websites?
Of the 525 large-cap companies whose websites we review, only 12% are currently providing transcripts of their earnings calls on their investor relations websites.
It’s NOT because investors don’t want them.
There wouldn’t be a transcript industry if there wasn’t demand [...]
Blogs as an intelligence tool for investor relations
By Dominic Jones
OFTEN dismissed as noise, blog is still a four-letter word for many companies’ investor relations departments. But they are missing out on an opportunity to get valuable feedback and tactical intelligence at negligible cost.
By monitoring what blogs are writing about, you can gain a better understanding of investors’ perceptions about investor relations practices and even your [...]
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