By Dominic Jones on September 2, 2010
ACCOUNTING professors at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan recently published a study with a rather startling finding — using social media like Twitter can help companies overcome a lack of media and sell-side analyst coverage and improve liquidity for their stock.
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By Dominic Jones on March 3, 2010
A NEW survey sheds light on the growing independent investment advisor business in the United States and finds that these advisors have little interest in small-cap stocks and prefer large-cap international equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and large-cap domestic stocks.
Posted in Articles | Tagged ETFs, international investing, Investor Relations, RIAs, stocks, surveys
By Dominic Jones on September 1, 2009
WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) accidentally posted earnings information on the web prior to their official announcement last week, it was a little like seeing a poster child for online disclosure fall from grace. None of the usual crop of online disclosure pundits uttered a word about it, as if to do so would cast [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged dell inc, disclosure, Investor Relations, real time web, reg fd, stocks, twitter, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on December 17, 2008
THE recent emergence of online investor communities that are registered as investment advisers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission is producing a new brand of influencer that investor relations professionals need to pay attention to because they could challenge traditional Wall Street analysts in shaping investor opinions.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, finance, financial content, investment communities, Investor Relations, social media, stocks
By Dominic Jones on December 7, 2008
IR professionals must recognize that the early adopters of these technologies and platforms will be followed by critical mass. The after-effects of this evolutionary process entails a shift of power to new influential individuals and online communities.
Posted in Articles | Tagged financial content, investment communities, Investor Relations, marketwatch, social networking, stock screening, stocks
By Dominic Jones on July 18, 2008
BIZARRE is the only way to describe the screenshot below of Google Finance’s homepage this morning — the day after the search giant reported earnings that missed analyst forecasts and sent its shares tumbling more than 7% in after-hours trading. By all accounts, Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings miss was big news. It is on the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, google news, merrill lynch, stocks, technology, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
SOFTWARE company BladeLogic, which went public last July, has one of the hippest ticker symbols going: BLOG. But now that the company is being acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) those funky four letters are up for grabs. One problem, though. The way the US IPO market has been doing so far this year, it [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged initial public offerings, Investor Relations, IPOs, nasdaq, national venture capital association, nyse, stocks, thomson financial, ticker symbol, venture capital, venture capital association, venture capital funding, 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 January 22, 2008
IS IT envision or envisage? Centre or center? Check or cheque? Did you know European companies outside of the UK mostly prefer US spellings? In Australia there’s a Labor Party, but they spell color with a “u”. Why do North Americans call it “gas” when it’s a liquid. It’s petrol, isn’t it? From my perspective, [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 15, 2008
It is high time for regulators to take a hard look at the rules around companies providing third-party content and independent perspectives.
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, Investor Relations, SEC, stocks, strategy
By Dominic Jones on December 18, 2007
NO SURPRISE last week when Thomson Financial reported on a survey of investor relations officers that found just 18% are actively trying to attract new retail investors.IR Magazine has more on the survey, but it basically says that the U.S. investor relations community considers retail investors irrelevant. Well, there is another side to the story. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, notice-and-access, SEC, securities, stocks
By Dominic Jones on October 29, 2007
By Dominic Jones AS STOCK ownership becomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few big institutions, what implications does that have for investor relations strategy? A far-ranging speech on the topic of “deretailization” by Brian G. Cartwright, who is General Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, got me wondering how smart IR [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, management, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, strategy, technology
By Dominic Jones on August 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones A FEW months ago, there was a lot of hubbub in the technology blogging community about a new service called Twitter. The service asked people to write short messages about what they were doing, and then it delivered the one-liners to their friends in near real time via instant messaging, SMS and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, disclosure, earnings, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, SEC, stocks, technology, twitter
By Dominic Jones on August 1, 2007
Note: I’ve added more specifics around the sequence of events around Sun’s release, including adding a screenshot taken from Yahoo! Finance which shows times various news items became available there. I’ve also added a link to a PRWeek article that provides a more balanced report than IR Magazine. I’ve also added an update about Business [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, corporate websites, disclosure, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, finance, law, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, technology, wordpress, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on July 12, 2007
By Dominic Jones ERIC Jackson, the individual shareholder and management consultant who launched an annual meeting campaign against Yahoo! with a wiki, a blog, YouTube and a lot of media interest, has turned his sights on a new target — struggling Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT). As reported by the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal, Jackson [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, earnings, management, stocks, technology, yahoo
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