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Recently, our firm sat down with the director of research of a boutique investment bank that provides high-quality research primarily on small-cap stocks. Throughout the course of our conversation, Mr. X (name redacted to protect the innocent!) provided several words of wisdom for investor relations professionals and public companies, so...
Anyone who has ever been on a non-deal road show or done an investor conference will tell you…it’s not for the faint of heart. I describe it as a planned marathon made up of many, many sprints. Meetings with existing investors, new investors, sell-side analysts, investment bankers – a typical...
The film industry has Sundance, technology has the Consumer Electronics Show, and the world of investor relations has the NIRI Annual Conference. More than 1,000 IR practitioners attend what is considered the preeminent IR event of the year, and 2015 will be no exception with a dynamic lineup of panelists,...
Three people got punched in the face and knocked out at the 16th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference, held last week at a Hollywood hotel, directly next door to where the final episode of American Idol was being recorded at the same time. It was not the kind...
Today, I’m taking a look at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. Home to basketball and hockey games, rock concerts, a convention center, and yes, Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting. The Arena holds more than 18,000 screaming fans, or, in this case, shareholders. Estimates put visitors to the 2015 annual meeting at...
Hard to believe that within the last two decades we’ve gone from a virtually email-less society to one that requires us to check an inbox every minute. The weekend arrives and the flow of email that used to subside now beckons us relentlessly. And just when you thought email was...
The 2015 proxy season is underway, and following our exhaustive annual Google search for trends, it is clear that three major issues are leading the way on this year’s ballots: corporate access; board tenure/composition; and once again, executive pay. Regarding corporate access, everyone seems to be talking about New York...
Australian boy band Five Seconds of Summer recently won an award for “Best Fan Army” at the iHeart Music Awards. The award was not associated with any one of their songs, albums, concerts or music videos. Instead, it was an award based on the group’s online social media engagement. As...
Twitter’s launch of Periscope, which allows anybody to live stream video from a smartphone to anyone in the world with a simple click of a button, has profound implications for the communications world, creating millions of “on-the-scene reporters” and another medium to engage for the investor relations and public relations...
It seems like every day there is a new article or hypothesis about corporate boards and governance. Diversity…Say on Pay…Proxy Access…Tenure. You name it, it’s been debated. A new Ernst and Young study takes on the topic of board member skills, or more specifically providing more disclosure to investors about...
It’s Tuesday…that day of the week when your lazy Sunday afternoon nap is a distant (but fond) memory and the manic frenzy of Monday has passed, but the rest of the work week still seems like a long stretch of road. Here at PondelWilkinson, we’ve decided that Tuesday needs a...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a periodic feature by PondelWilkinson that turns a critical eye on the way quarterly results are communicated. The Good Earnings season is nearing its end, and after all of the Q4 news releases and conference call transcripts have been parsed and picked...
Nearly 37 million people watched the 87th Annual Academy Awards, down from 44 million last year. Many reasons may have contributed to the viewership drop, everything ranging from the show’s host performance, to the celebrity of the actors themselves, to the types of films that were nominated. For many pundits...
The world has been gripped by Super Bowl mania for the last few weeks. As such, it would probably be fairly simple (and maybe even valuable) to write about the communications lessons that could be learned from Marshawn Lynch’s press conference during Media Day where he famously answered every single...
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco is the equivalent of the Super Bowl in the healthcare industry, and last week was no exception, with executives from public and private companies descending on the Bay with such vigor and force that Union Square looked like the trading floor of...
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