Investor relations

External - Wall Street and investor relations Industry leadership matters Supplier relationships... 

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Investor Relations from a PR Approach to Targeted Marketing... 

As a further consequence of an advanced shareholder value orientation, a more targeted approach can be taken to investor relations. We feel that investor relations in many chemical companies today is predominantly aimed at providing timely, accurate, and exhaustive information to capital markets. Again, the assumption is that capital markets are perfectly efficient and will always evaluate this information correctly again, this does not match up with the real world. Behind the capital markets are investors with a wide variety of expectations and important specific investment preferences and institutional restrictions. In addition, it can be demonstrated that only a small number of investors with significant trading volume mainly influence stock prices in the short and medium term (Coyne, K. P. and Witter, J. W.). 

Investor relations should therefore actively sell its product to its divergent sets of key customers - which requires a much more systematic approach, incorporating insights from product marketing. We do not claim that this approach boosts a company s share price above the fundamentally justified level, but it is the right approach to mitigate temporary deviations and ensure that the fundamental value is fully reflected in its capital market valuation. 

The typical approach to investor relations therefore needs to be developed along three key dimensions ... 

Good communication with the investment community is essential for a company that wishes to increase its market value. Our analysis of a sample of German companies found a significant correlation between the quality of investor relations (judged by the quahty of annual reports, analyst conferences and other investor events) and shareholder returns. The sample covered a broad spread of industries and included several chemical companies. 

External affairs and investor relations should have a small group of experts at the corporate center, and the SBU external affairs personnel should have dotted line relationships with it. The corporate unit should focus on corporate identity to create a consistent and positive public image of the corporation. It should use issue management to shape public opinion, to pre-empt crises, and to cultivate a strong image and reputation for the company, and it needs to deal openly and honestly with crises when they occur. All external inquiries should be handled by the central unit - with the exception of public relations initiatives directly related to marketing efforts in the divisions (e.g., the launch of a new product). 

The doing stage of the cycle also addresses roles and responsibilities within the system. Expansion of the management system to address sustainability may require the assignment of role and responsibilities to individuals whose activities were not primarily associated with the original system activities. These may include representatives from human resources, accounting, investor relations, or even marketing departments. 

Contact Ellen Molleston Walvoord, V.P., Investor Relations and Public Affairs... 

Smith, W.T. (2007) Catalysts Moving on the Fast Track, BASF CC Investor Relation. 

In the United States, public companies are required to report their financial performance quarterly, with an annual report required at the end of the fiscal year. Non-U.S. companies with a stock trading on a U.S. stock exchange must also file quarterly and annual statements. Even foreign, public companies not on a U.S. exchange file annual reports for use by investors, analysts, and employees. Annual and quarterly reports are often found on the companies websites listed under investor relations. In the United States, these reports are available from the Securities and Exchange Commission (http //www.sec.gov) at no charge. Financial information on private companies is much more difficult to find. Users must depend on disclosure by the private company or rely on primary research vendors for information. 

This chapter defines the term bondholder value and contrasts it with shareholder value. In a second step, the different viewpoints of shareholders and bondholders are examined respectively. The discussion of both parties conflicts of interests concentrates on capital structure, share buybacks, dividend policy, and corporate strategy. As there are also similarities between shareholders and bondholders, instruments of the shareholder value concept that can be used to create bondholder value are described. That includes investor relations, risk management and the balanced scorecard. 

Instruments for implementing shareholder value concepts are investor relations, risk management and the balanced scorecard. These three... 

The company s success not only has to be achieved, but has to be communicated to investors to have an impact on the company s securities prices. Communication is the central task of investor relations (IR). Many companies are aware of its significance and set up IR departments. Essential is the timely, regular, and transparent presentation of the company which is of interest to shareholders and bondholders Market participants have to understand how the company works. And the company should know about investors interests. 

Walter Paul and Matthias Zieschang, Wirkungsweise der Investor Relations, Die Betriebswirtschaft 30 (1994), pp. 1485-1487. 

In the long run the aims of shareholders and bondholders are largely congruent. This is punctuated by the fact that instruments of shareholder value (investor relations, risk management, and balanced score-card) can be nsed to enhance bondholder value. Thus it does not make sense to pursne short-term maximization of the stock price at the expense of the company s creditors. 

So now you have a foot in the door— what next Well, it all depends on you. Are you interested in investor relations Would you like to work in-house as the PR Director and public spokesperson of a company Do you want to be in charge of PR for a product on the market Would you like to specialize as a science writer, and perhaps work from home Do you want to be in charge of a PR department at an agency, and manage a lot of people Would you like to eventually start your own PR agency You will find that a lot of options are now open to you. 

We have carried out an online questionnaire about investor relations conduct Iot key owntTS, investors and analysts about their expectations [...] ... 

Coiptnate Sustainability plays a central role in our market outlook and public affairs processes and supports investor relations. ... 

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