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Altitude sickness, anyone?
Headlines like “Dow Presses On to Historic Peak” seem a little scary. Yet there it is, splashed across page 1 of today’s Wall Street Journal. Being part of anything cyclical can bring its chills as...
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Beware of spell check
There is a double warning in an advertisement by Hartford Funds in the July-August 2016 issue of Bloomberg Markets. First, the disclaimer cautions investors that things don’t always work out as hoped....
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Mind the GAAP – and the perceptions
One of many fond impressions London offers to visitors is the warning “Mind the gap” – a uniquely British way of cautioning subway riders not to trip over, or get their foot stuck in, that space...
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IR webpage: connecting with investors
Looking at the IR page on Mattel’s website the other day, I saw something worthy of emulation. Not some fancy technology – the toy maker uses a standard back-end system with an automated feed. No...
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‘That’s not a strategy’
Henry R. Kravis, co-chair of KKR, in the July/August Bloomberg Markets, on interviewing CEOs of potential investments: I compare their responses to the dot-com period around 2000. Back then I’d ask,...
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Hillary (or Donald) ate my homework
Ya gotta love it! This just in from today’s Wall Street Journal: If you believe U.S. corporations, Americans are drinking less coffee, eating fewer doughnuts and taking fewer cruises, all because of...
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Gift bags and a chat with shareholders
A nice feature on the Estée Lauder annual meeting ritual – a gathering of mostly older ladies dressed to a T, gathering for a continental breakfast “beautifully displayed,” a gift bag of cosmetics,...
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What’s the value of your brand?
Andy Warhol’s “Coca-Cola [3]” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The typical raw materials of valuation are numbers – and investor relations people get very comfortable working with metrics that...
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Skin in the game: ‘I’ and ‘We’
Investors like to know a CEO and other leaders have “skin in the game” – a personal stake in the company’s success in creating value. Now a study by accounting profs at Tulane University suggests that...
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Easing the small-cap regulatory burden
Companies at the low end of the market cap spectrum often view compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations as a Sisyphean burden, with costly, recurring, quarterly and yearly work....
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