Press releases relating to earnings statements are usually little more than reiterations of
the numbers in a narrative form, but are the reader-friendly summaries that get distributed
to the media. Larger organizations even conduct conference calls to make the
announcement and then release the recording as a webcast (or podcast, depending on
how hip they are).
Some companies choose not to republish the actual SEC forms on their website. There is
no rule for or against it, but since all material is indexed and searchable within the EDGAR
system, some corporations don??™t take the time to duplicate the effort. For those who do,
the formatting is bare bones??”in fact, most simply link to a PDF version. In a listing like
WEB DESIGN AND MARKETING SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS WEBSITES
134
that shown in Figure 6-10, the link to a form like 10-Q could just as easily go directly to the
SEC??™s website as it could a PDF version housed on the company??™s server.
Media and more
At the end of the day, an investor relations section of a corporate site can be as big or
small as the company wants. The giants of the business world exert tremendous energy
wooing their investors with portals rich with every possible crumb of information regarding
the stock and the company behind it.
Pages:
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289