How Do Others See You?
- Legal Inside Info. at Company Sleuth -- This site is probably the fastest way to see what is being said at all the various bulletin boards and forums, at Earnings Whispers, at Stock Rumors, etc.
- Visit Earnings Whispers for whisper numbers on 4,000-some stocks. What (if anything) are the brokers saying about you?
- Stock Rumors offers news on-line or via e-mail, reporting on rumors heard on the street, new domain names or trademarks applied for, etc.
- There are so many sites on-line where you can link to or order newsletters that they are too numerous to list. However, the Select Information Exchange bears mentioning since they not only have an inexpensive trial offer, but for free you can use their "SIE Stockfocus" for free. This may be found at their subsidiary StockFocus Type in the symbol of your stock and you will see a summary of what about 300 newsletters may have to say about it!
- The rumor mill is fed by a huge number of stock-related discussion sites. Here are several sites which can organize your search for gossip on your company:
- TheLion.com. Organizes messages on a given stock from 7 of the major boards.
- BoardCentral.com. BoardCentral links to all discussion lists and has a ticker search program to help you find gossip about your company.
- Message Boards Page at Stocks Central. Also organizes the main message boards so you can check all the gossip for a ticker symbol.
- Cnet's Search enables you to quickly search the top 4 message boards: Yahoo, Raging Bull, Motley Fool and Silicon Investor.
- Forum One in their "Business and Finanace" section, links you to 127 discussion groups!
- Mindful Eye. This company has developed sophisticated software to monitor Internet chat rooms, financial news Web sites and other sources on the Internet for messages, gossip or rumors that could positively or negatively affect your company's stock value
- The Stock Detective at FinancialWeb. Thinking of a merger? See if the other company is mentioned in a negative way here. Hopefully yours will not be mentioned here.
- The Truth Seeker. Not yet as big a site as The Stock Detective, but a well respected source of information on dubious dealings.
- AFSCME. (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees) Research your site as a union activist would and see how you shape up.
- Promotion Alert. This site is designed to help the microcap investor to identify what is being said about individual OTC-BB stocks by promotional firms and Internet newsletters. It is not designed specifically to alert people to scams (like the "Stock Detective", above), but to help investors judge what is moving the stock they are interested in. What are they saying about you?
Can People Find You At All?
There are so many places where you should be found on the web that you can't keep track of all of them but you should try to look at the main ones. Financial sites such as MSN Finance and Yahoo get their data fees from the big financial providers such as Hoovers, Market Guide and Comstock. Those big providers usually get their data from the SEC's EDGAR documents. Therefore, if you find incorrect information about your company on the web your time is probably best spent in determining where the information came from and correcting it at the source.
- Read Top 100 Sites Where Your Company Should Be Found, a slightly out-of-date article by WSC. Links are old but the general advice still holds. Then go to Public Companies' Sites and Financial Information, WSC's current links to company research data. Check to see if you're found.
- Look at The 159 Financial Sites Found Found First when Searching the Web compiled byTarget Market Development and make sure that you're at those appropriate for your company.
- As of summer 2000 the popular article Best of the Web compiled byMoney Magazinegives you another good list of sites to check out.
- Be sure that you can be found at StockStudy.com, especially under their "IR Packages" menu item. StockStudy is part of the family of sites offered byUbrandit.com, a leading B2B provider of co-branded Internet sites and data. Since their financial data comes from S&P Comstock it covers virtually all public companies. However, if they have not been able to find an e-mail address to which they can forward requests for your annual report, they may have eliminated you from that important part of their database!
- With 21st Century regulations regarding equal access to financial information you want to make sure everyone is aware of your announcements. The two leading lists of conference calls and expected earnings announcement dates are at:
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