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By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
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 [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, transcripts, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on January 23, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, disclosure, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, stocks, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, Investor Relations, seekingalpha
By Dominic Jones on May 7, 2007
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, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, earnings, earnings calls, feeds, finance, Google, Google Calendar, google finance, Katie Jacobs Stanton, Kyphon, microsoft, official, rss, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, thomson financial, ticker symbol, yahoo, Zimmer Holdings Inc.
By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, Lou Thompson, messenger, NIRI, S&P 500, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, stocks, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on March 29, 2007
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 — [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, David Jackson, disclosure, finance, finance bloggers, Google, google finance, law, management, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Systems Corp., yahoo
By Dominic Jones on March 28, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged David Collins, David Nadig, earnings, Investor Relations, Michael Sprague, New York City, Peter Sprague, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Express, Wave Systems Corp.
By Dominic Jones on March 19, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged cfa institute, conference calls, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, PDF, SEC, SEC filings, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, SeekingAlpha.com, StreetEvents, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 23, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, content management systems, IE7, IR websites, management, Model for Corporate Website Management, online communications, search engines, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, thomson financial, transcripts, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on January 9, 2007
By Dominic Jones A NEW service aims to improve the reach and economics of executives’ investor presentations by distributing them on the popular Yahoo! Finance website and exposing them to bloggers and their audiences. Seeking Alpha, an aggregator of finance commentary from over 200 bloggers, is offering to transcribe companies’ presentations at investor conferences and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, Ezra Marbach, finance, finance bloggers, Investor Relations, Joffoni, market leader, Nielsen Net Ratings, Omaha, retail investors, SEC, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, SeekingAlpha.com, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo, Yahoo Finance
By Dominic Jones on November 2, 2006
By Dominic Jones IT’S a question many publicly traded corporations around the world need to answer as investment blogs become more sophisticated and attract greater interest from investors. When a company finds itself the subject of an investment blogger, how should it respond? Indeed, should it respond at all? One company already has its answer. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, David Phillips, disclosure, finance, Google, google finance, nasdaq, Particle Drilling Technologies Inc, Phillip, seekingalpha, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2006
By Dominic Jones I’M HAVING a bit of fun here, but shouldn’t the quintessential Web company be just a little more hip to using new technologies in its communications with investors? Google Inc. — which just acquired web video sensation YouTube for $1.65 billion — webcasted it earnings call yesterday using investor relations website outsourcing [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, earnings calls, finance, google finance, Google Inc., IE7, investor communications, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, MP3, nasdaq, Real Player, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, Skype, Skype services, technology, transcripts, VOIP, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on September 27, 2006
By Dominic Jones I DON’T know if this is new or if I just haven’t seen it before, but Yahoo! Finance is posting prominent cautions on summary pages for Nasdaq companies that are behind in their SEC filings. It’s quite jarring when you first see the caution icon and bold message saying company X “is [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, EDGAR, finance, Juniper Networks Inc, KLA-Tencor Corp., Man Bites Dog, Marie Leone, merrill lynch, nasdaq, new york stock exchange, NVIDIA Corp., Rambus Inc., reuters, SafeNet Inc., Sapient Corporation, SEC, SEC filings, seekingalpha, Semtech Corp., technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Unitedhealth Group Inc., VeriSign Inc., XBRL, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on September 12, 2006
PITY the investor relations people at Illinois Tool Works Inc. They arrived at work this morning to find that someone named Jason Wood had gained access to Yahoo! Finance and is calling their latest acquisition a “strange, strange deal.” You can almost hear them asking: “Who the hell is Jason Wood and where did he [...]
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