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Cool ticker symbol up for grabs
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 doesn’t look [...]
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 [...]
Business Wire fumbles error on its blog
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point.
Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and providing [...]
Earnings releases — the Warren Buffett way
WHILE his competitors lavish huge fees on his PR wire service, frugal billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is being thrifty by keeping its earnings releases short and referring investors to complete disclosures on the company’s website.
Ironically, management at Business Wire, acquired by Buffett in March 2006, has argued vehemently against other companies following its parent’s [...]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. confuses me — and Bloomberg
AFTER making a big deal last quarter about no longer relying on paid PR wires to distribute its earnings releases, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) has gone back to the traditional approach this quarter.I cannot find an explanation for why the company has decided to once again issue its earnings release first via a PR [...]
Review: Thomson's IR website upgrades
THOMSON FINANCIAL, the 800-pound gorilla of corporate investor relations services, recently rolled out new features for its hosted investor relations website product that it promises will “transform” IR websites and improve their “user experience.”In this review, I assess each of the new features and provide my research-based, unbiased opinion on whether they are good, mediocre [...]
The truth about Sun's Web-first earnings release — Update 3
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 [...]
We don't need PR wires for Reg. FD
By Dominic Jones
PROPONENTS of changing the information distribution requirements of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) say the world is ready to receive disclosures direct via companies’ websites rather than via intermediaries like news release distributors.
As evidence, they point to widespread adoption of the Internet and email by investors, plus the availability of new highly economical [...]
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 [...]
If retail investors don't matter, IR is in trouble
By Dominic Jones
RETAIL investors’ direct ownership of U.S. stocks has dwindled to new lows. According to a survey released by the Conference Board, institutional investors owned 68% of the top 1,000 companies in 2005.
To put that in perspective, consider that in 1950 individual investors directly held 92% of stocks. Today they own just 32%. Indirect [...]
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