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Disney’s earnings release leak shocks stock

Disney’s earnings release leak shocks stock

By Dominic Jones on November 12, 2010

THE Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) yesterday saw its stock plunge after the company’s earnings release, disclosing worse than expected results, was discovered on its website at least 30 minutes prior to the normal release time.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged business, Disclosure leaks, earnings, Investor Relations, investor relations website, websites

Microsoft latest to dump PR wires for earnings releases

Microsoft latest to dump PR wires for earnings releases

By Dominic Jones on October 28, 2010

MICROSOFT corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has become the latest high-profile company to end the decades-old practice of using a paid PR wire service to distribute its quarterly earnings announcements – a move that acknowledges the real-time capabilities of the web.

Posted in Online IR | Tagged business, Investor Relations, investor relations website, online disclosure, reg fd, Web Disclosure

Accounting professors find social media improves stock liquidity: interview

Accounting professors find social media improves stock liquidity: interview

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.

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged business, stocks, Twitter

MarkThisDate: a great tool for IR website calendars

MarkThisDate: a great tool for IR website calendars

By Dominic Jones on August 31, 2010

EVENT calendars on investor relations websites are one of the most important features companies can offer – but the calendar tools available from all IR website vendors today are little changed from what they were 10 years ago.

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged business, calendars, events, Investor Relations, investor relations website, syndication, web apps

Weekly roundup: stuff that got us thinking in the week ending Aug. 20

Weekly roundup: stuff that got us thinking in the week ending Aug. 20

By Dominic Jones on August 20, 2010

This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.

Posted in Issues, Social Media | Tagged business, corporate communications, hedge funds, Investor Relations, Twitter

How hedge funds analyze your earnings calls

How hedge funds analyze your earnings calls

By Dominic Jones on August 13, 2010

NEWS this week from the Wall Street Journal that academics have found key language markers of executive deception on earnings calls won’t come as a surprise to some of the world’s biggest hedge funds.

Posted in Communications, Disclosure | Tagged business, deception, Quarterly Reporting

Broadridge on SEC proxy plumbing: be careful what you wish for

Broadridge on SEC proxy plumbing: be careful what you wish for

By Dominic Jones on August 12, 2010

RICH DALY, the CEO of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), has responded to investor concerns about the potential impact on his company of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy system review, saying critics want to take the system back 45 years and companies’ costs could more than double in an unregulated market.

Posted in Corporate Governance, Shareholder Services | Tagged broadridge financial solutions inc, business, Investor Relations, proxy plumbing, proxy services

Will Europe ever get its own EDGAR?

Will Europe ever get its own EDGAR?

By Dominic Jones on August 9, 2010

EUROPEAN Union securities regulators last week put out a paper on creating a central disclosure system — but with so many vested interests to placate it seems implausible that investors will soon have a single gateway to EU securities filings.

Posted in Disclosure, Online IR | Tagged business, Europe, Regulatory Filings, web feeds, XBRL

Most US investors get PR wire releases 80 seconds after Wall Street

Most US investors get PR wire releases 80 seconds after Wall Street

By Dominic Jones on August 3, 2010

A SIMPLE analysis of 100 company news releases shows that the average delay between when PR wire services release the information to Wall Street and when most non-professional investors actually have access to it on Yahoo! Finance is just over 83 seconds.

Posted in Disclosure, Issues, Online IR | Tagged business, latency, pr wires, Quarterly Reporting, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission

Google drops PR wire for earnings, but only Pac-Man irks investors

By Dominic Jones on July 19, 2010

WHEN Internet giant Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported its second-quarter 2010 earnings last week it did so without using a paid PR wire service – a controversial move that some predicted would create challenges for the disclosure ecosystem.

Posted in Disclosure, Issues, Online IR | Tagged business, online disclosure, reg fd, regulation fd, Web Disclosure

How Expedia uses advisory releases

By Dominic Jones on July 13, 2010

EXPEDIA, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) is one US company that has for several quarters used an advisory release process for its quarterly earnings releases. The process has run smoothly and resulted in an increase in the number of investors accessing the results from the company’s website, which recently was upgraded to a new platform hosted by [...]

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged advisory releases, business, Investor Relations, online disclosure, reg fd, regulation fd, Web Disclosure

5 common questions about web disclosure

By Dominic Jones on June 24, 2010

ONE OF THE hottest topics of conversation in the US investor relations profession right now is using the web for disclosure and communications to investors. It was a dominant theme at the recent National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego, and the discussion has continued in various trade publications and online forums.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged advisory releases, business, Investor Relations, investor relations website, online disclosure, reg fd, regulation fd, Web Disclosure

Undisclosed paid content on Wikinvest

By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2010

SEVERAL months ago, I stumbled across information in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that raises important questions about the integrity of information posted on the popular Wikinvest website.

Posted in Issues, Social Media | Tagged business, corporate communications, credibility, trust, wikinvest

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