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Repetition, Repetition, Repetition to Get Your Point Across
What feels like "annoyingly repetitive" to you, is probably "refreshingly simple" to your investors.
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Why You Should Spend More Time Focusing on Your Earnings “Call Backs”
In the late 90s, a really good sell-side analyst might cover 8 or 10 stocks. They would be on every earnings call and would know every detail about every line in the model. Today however, analysts frequently cover 40 or more stocks.
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Stocks Have Emotions. It’s Not Just What They Teach in Business School
Read on only if you're willing to throw out what they teach you in business school. Namely, that stock prices are simply the market's representation of the discounted present value of a future stream of cash flows.
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The Market Minute: 2 Important Steps to Take After Going Public
Being a public company includes a lot more regulatory headaches. And winning over investors doesn’t end after the IPO.
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Is Your IR Firm Advising You to Acknowledge the Competition?
While there are often many reasons why a stock is suffering, one of the easier fixes I see in my IR strategy practice is a change in the way my clients discuss their competition.
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Analysts are Busy - Help Them Help You
The sell-side analysts that cover your stock are far busier than you might think. Failing to recognize this and blaming them for not properly understanding your story leads to valuation challenges and frustration by everyone involved.
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$5bn Hardware Company Lacking Investor Credibility
The client (under NDA) was looking for someone to help them fix their sagging stock price, which was lagging behind their peers despite several quarters of beating consensus estimates.
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$5bn Software Company with a Lagging Multiple
Management had a history of over-promising and under-delivering, which we needed to correct. Also, the business model transition created a layer of opacity that only increased disclosure, and new KPIs could solve.
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$14bn Software Company in Model Transition
After many years of disappointing results, investors lost interest in this company. Additionally, the company’s financial disclosures made it impossible to see all the changes going on “under the surface.”
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Why You Should Spend More Time Focusing on Your Earnings “Call Backs”
In the late 90s, a really good sell-side analyst might cover 8 or 10 stocks. They would be on every earnings call and would know every detail about every line in the model. Today however, analysts frequently cover 40 or more stocks.
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Repetition, Repetition, Repetition to Get Your Point Across
What feels like "annoyingly repetitive" to you, is probably "refreshingly simple" to your investors.
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Here’s Why You Need New Investors
Very often, when I'm working with a client to help them simplify their story into easily digestible bullets, they say to me, "our existing investors already know this...why do we need to say this again? It feels so repetitive."
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Don’t Try to Pull a Fast One
I tell my clients all the time that a quarterly report consists of at least three major things: 1) the published numbers from the quarter, 2) management commentary, and 3) guidance.
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Educate and Reeducate the Street on Your Story
As a general group, investors want to be educated… tempted even, by the tantalizing aspects of a story in order to get interested. They want to hear a good story that reminds them of stocks that have worked for them in the past.