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IR research the Web 2.0 way — free!

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged conference calls, earnings, Quarterly Reporting, securities, seekingalpha, transcripts

We've acquired Thomson Financial's IR website business

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, Communications, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged earnings, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, transcripts, wordpress

Democratizing the earnings call

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, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged conference calls, earnings, finance, nasdaq, Quarterly Reporting, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, stocks, transcripts, yahoo

What if more sell-side research goes independent?

By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2007

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 research departments and [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications, Investor Relations | Tagged finance, seekingalpha

Traffic to Thomson IR websites slumps

By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2007

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 have the Alexa [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged earnings, finance, Google, google finance, Lou Thompson, NIRI, S&P 500, Seeking Alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, stocks, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo

Why blog network’s “open CEO interviews” are a hit

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 Online IR, Social Media | Tagged blogs, conference calls, David Jackson, finance, finance bloggers, Google, google finance, law, management, Seeking Alpha, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Systems Corp., yahoo

Throw your CEO under a blog bus

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, Investor Relations | Tagged earnings, New York City, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Systems Corp.

IR website vendors are failing IROs

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, Communications | Tagged content management systems, IE7, management, Model for Corporate Website Management, online communications, search engines, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, thomson financial, transcripts, YouTube

Should IROs comment on blog posts?

By Dominic Jones on November 2, 2006

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. On Tuesday, Chris [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged blogs, Google, google finance, nasdaq, seekingalpha

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