As I’m sure you know by now, Dell launched the first Investor Relations blog just over a week ago, to quite a bit of comment around the patch, and they’ve got a couple of posts up now.
This blog is a really very interesting addition to the IR site, and Dell are typically brave to be the first (though I suppose someone has to!). I’m sure it won’t be long before other companies join them … [Read more…] about Blog review: Dell’s IR blog
Time for another quick review: 15 minutes to assess Chemoil’s corporate website.
There is much to be commended in this site. Chemoil includes a number of items that many other companies fail to include, such as: video, podcast, webcast, a glossary, FAQs, third party comment, a sitemap, biographies of both board members and management, a dedicated shareholder page, details on insider trades and a good explanation of their business and strategy – as well as a great deal of other information.
However, the site overall does have a few flaws, and I have some suggestions for improvement. [Read more…] about Best Practices Review: Chemoil
Ever wondered what everyone else was using to chart their share price? Here are eight different ways of charting the share price.
Many if not most FTSE 100 companies now provide interactive share charting facilities, so that visitors can see the trend over the last day, week, month … or whatever period interests them.
Some companies provide the option to compare the performance of their stock with indices and sector – perhaps the FTSE or equivalent, or a set of related companies.
A subset of these companies make it easy to compare their own performance with that of their direct competition. For example, Roche make it easy to see how they are doing compared to Bayer, or Pfizer, GSK or AstraZeneca (among several others).
A very few companies make it easy to compare their performance against apparently any listed company. [Read more…] about 8 ways of charting your share price (or not)
While researching for a benchmark report into oil and gas companies this week, I came across this example of a great way of communicating with your retail investors.
Petrobras run a live chat session with their Individual Investor Manager, and then post the transcript of the session for future reference, with an archive going back to 2001. Most of these sessions deal with the quarterly results, but some cover the business plans and strategy.
Yes, these are all in Portuguese, but what a great idea! Individual investors can raise questions and have them answered, in public. Petrobras enhances its reputation for being open and accessible to all.
You would need to publicise a forthcoming chat session clearly, probably from the home page, and possibly even emailing any retail investors for whom you had contact information. Petrobras flag it up on the landing page for Investors.
This is worth thinking about – especially if your retail investors are feeling ignored in favour of the professionals.
Unless your company is very new indeed, there will be a history of rises and falls in the share price. Investors – both existing and potential – will want to understand this history.
Some companies explain this by linking peaks and troughs on the share charts to press releases or RNS releases which cover the events related to the change.
Benetton is an example of this style of presentation; clicking on one of the markers on the line graph brings up a link to that release. [Read more…] about How to show the relationship between stock price and events
How easily can your customers find you on the High Street?
Imagine that you want to visit a branch of Big Retail Company, but don’t know where the nearest store is. Searching on the internet, you land on the corporate website. Can you find the answer to your question?
I’ve looked at 14 FTSE100 companies who have a High Street or out-of-town presence to find out how easily a retail customer could find their nearest outlet using the corporate site. [Read more…] about 13 recommendations to help retail customers find your outlets
