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By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, earnings, earnings calls, Investor Relations, securities, seekingalpha, transcripts
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on March 26, 2008
I WAS interviewed for 45 minutes last Friday by well-known communications consultant Shel Holz for a book he is co-authoring on the topic of “practical transparency.” Shel is one of the thought leaders on the topic of communications and technology. He has written and spoken about it extensively over the years, in various books, reports, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, management, microsoft, news releases, technology, transcripts
By IR Web Report on February 29, 2008
CANADIAN investor relations departments are failing to take advantage of web technology to communicate essential information and provide services to their investors, a study commissioned by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) has found. As part of a broader review of corporate reporting, a study group comprised of accounting and investor relations experts evaluated [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, SEC, technology, transcripts
By IR Web Report on February 12, 2008
WITH tech titans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) poised for a brawl, it might be useful for the two to see examples of companies that are right now using the Web to effectively present their bid propaganda. Ironically, the examples I have to share, whipped up after a quick Google News search [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged microsoft, nasdaq, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, technology, transcripts, yahoo
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on April 28, 2007
By Dominic Jones BARRON’S technology journalist Eric Savitz has lashed out at companies that provide guidance in conference calls but not in their news releases, a practice he says discriminates against individual investors and leads to technical violations of Reg. FD. Writing on the Tech Trader Daily blog, Savitz says companies that provide guidance only [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, disclosure, earnings, Eric Savitz, Investor Relations, journalist, management, news releases, SEC, Tech Trader, technology, transcript services, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By IR Web Report on April 27, 2007
By Dominic Jones LET’S just assume that the Alexa trends I reported earlier this week are reasonably accurate and investors are deserting cookie-cutter IR websites in droves. That might not be such a stretch given that no one has stepped forward to dispute Alexa’s numbers with their own figures. If it is true, and I [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, content management systems, disclosure, finance, IR websites, law, management, nasdaq, NIRI, PDF, printing, privacy, SEC, securities, seeking alpha, shareholder.com, transcripts, yahoo
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on April 1, 2007
OVER the past eight months or so, we’ve published more than 355 posts amounting to over 900 printed pages of text and pictures, not counting the 225-odd comments from readers and ourselves. To help new readers, and those who’ve been busy over the annual reporting season, we’ve put together a list of the original pieces [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, EDGAR, finance, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, Media Mentions Than Official, microsoft, Model for Corporate Website Management, nasdaq, newswires, NIRI, PDF, pr newswire, privacy, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, social media, Starbucks, strategy, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web privacy, XBRL, yahoo, YouTube
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on March 11, 2007
By Dominic Jones THOMSON FINANCIAL corporate services, the giant of investor relations website hosting, seems to be listening to what we’ve been saying here at IR Web Report about their clients’ websites falling behind current Web trends. Last week, the Boston-based company introduced a service that incorporates Flash video, audio, animation and transcripts to create [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, shareholder.com, transcripts, usability
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on February 1, 2007
By Dominic Jones THIS shouldn’t be news to anyone in the investor relations field, but the globalization of investor relations keeps rolling on apace as stock exchanges continue to link up. A key component of the cooperation agreement between the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced yesterday is helping listed companies [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, General Electric, Investor Relations, IR websites, Japan, nasdaq, national investor relations institute, new york stock exchange, NIRI, retail investors, Tokyo Stock Exchange, transcripts
By IR Web Report 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
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