Thomson Reuters’ uncomfortable IR website findings
THE Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in the United States and Thomson Reuters released a report last week containing an interesting data point about how analysts and portfolio managers view the usefulness of corporate investor relations websites. The study (PDF 648KB, 37 pages) found that IR websites ranked second-last for importance among a list of nine [...]
Transcripts a sign of transparency
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 [...]

