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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 [...]
We've acquired Thomson Financial's IR website business
Please note the date of this post (and the many clues throughout) should tell you it can’t be trusted.
AFTER several weeks of intense negotiations, I’m proud to announce today that my company last night signed a binding agreement to purchase the investor relations website hosting and webcasting business of Thomson Financial.
The Thomson Financial business hosts [...]
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 [...]
What if more sell-side research goes independent?
By Dominic Jones
THE Economist looks at the seemingly perilous plight of traditional broker research and concludes that the sell-side is far from dead, but the industry may drift from the big investment banks to independent research shops.
Their prediction is based on the supposition that fund managers, which have increasingly been building their own research departments [...]
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 [...]
Traffic to Thomson IR websites slumps
By Dominic Jones
IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company.
Alexa, owned by Amazon.com, measures traffic only of people who have the [...]
Why blog network's "open CEO interviews" are a hit
By Dominic Jones
SOME readers might be wondering if I’ve gone completely mad by saying this week’s three-day CEO open interview hosted by blog network Seeking Alpha represents the future of IR.
You might be wondering why I am advocating that you put your CEO in front of a group of hardened investors, analysts and finance bloggers [...]
Throw your CEO under a blog bus
AND IF he or she can withstand the three-day onslaught of probing questions, you will have a highly credible and effective piece of investor relations communication.
This free-for-all blog interview is infinitely more credible than the stage-managed Q&A on an earnings conference call, or a broker conference audience, or even a rowdy annual meeting. More credible [...]
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 [...]
IR website vendors are failing IROs
By Dominic Jones
IT TAKES less than 30 seconds for anyone with a browser to set up a website and start publishing and building an audience.
They have immediate access to a vast array of free tools to incorporate into their websites, from free email alerts to free video, even free stock charts and market data.
These [...]
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