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The Motley Fool May 7, 2004 Bill Mann |
Rash of Activism at Staples This year's proxy statement from office supply giant Staples contains four separate shareholder proposals, the first time any shareholder proposals have been made in the last ten years. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Jeff Hwang |
Overstock Rocked The high-flying stock gets hammered on news of a share offering. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Mo' Money From Molex The electronics firm follows a profitable year with shareholder rewards. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Disney's Dividend Beleaguered Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner hinted that shareholders may hear about an increased dividend before the year is out. |
The Motley Fool May 14, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Take Action Here are some tips on how to make a difference with your holdings. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2004 Seth Jayson |
ARM Holdings' Dividend Dissension Shareholders of the U.K. chip designer ponder dividends and dwindling growth. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Jeff Hwang |
Disney Puts Up The company releases strong earnings early as if in rebuttal to Comcast's surprise bid. |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Seth Jayson |
Who Financed Martha's Flop? With Martha's Apprentice apparently over and done, it's time to reexamine who will pay the price for this dud. Let's simplify it: Martha and Mark Burnett created a failure. Shareholders paid them for it anyway. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
A Daring but Doomed Proposal What if shareholders decided how companies spent their money? |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2004 Seth Jayson |
palmOne's High Five Investors have been bidding up PDA maker palmOne, but beware of getting your fingers singed. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Staples Guns It Staples, the office supply retailer, reports a sharp quarter. |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2004 Steven Mallas |
It's the Dividend, Disney The price of the Disney stock shouldn't be the big concern. The major issue is the dividend, a paltry $0.21 per share that hasn't seen a raise for a long time. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
A Blockbuster Orphan Spun off by Viacom, will the movie renter be hobbled by debt? |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Papa John's' Crusty Conduct The pizza's heating up, but are shareholders being served? |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Martha Cleans Up There's no disguising the fact that this is about repairing a brand in order to sell more magazines, more towels at Kmart, and more books on Amazon.com. But that should be worth something to shareholders. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Jeff Hwang |
A Costly Tech Buyback Selling options low and buying back shares high destroy Texas Instruments' value. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2004 Aaron Byrd |
Disney: Notes From the Front Line Even after Disney shareholders voiced their lack of confidence in staggering numbers, the board installed an existing member as the new chairman. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Rich Smith |
Staples Secures Shares Wall Street's buyback binge continues. Staples had a $1.5 billion buyback plan in place already, but it had burned through $1.2 billion of its authorization and decided a re-up was in order. |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2004 D. Gardner & T.Gardner |
Eisner's Surreal Ouster Why shareholders sided with Disney over Eisner. |
The Motley Fool June 6, 2006 Joseph Khattab |
The Next Enron Cash is king. Despite what some business execs want you to believe, cash pays the bills -- accounting earnings do not. Cash flow is much more difficult to manipulate than earnings, which makes it a better analysis tool for investors. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Chris Mallon |
Shareholder Dilution Delusions Using shareholder cash to stem stock option dilution is a deceptive, wealth-destroying practice. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Payback Time Still As punishment for the market-timing scandals, the SEC and other enforcers collected fines from 20 fund companies. Four fund companies have filed plans with the SEC to distribute the cash to shareholders. But so far the money sits waiting until the plans are approved. |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
The SEC May Shut You Up If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know. The SEC has recently proposed changing rules for shareholders -- in ways that don't seem to protect them at all. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Bill Mann |
Cisco Might Pay Dividend John Chambers hints that he might return some cash to shareholders. That would be great. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2004 |
"Payout Ratios" Explained The formula puts your company's dividend in context -- it's good to know. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Bill Mann |
Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class Investors There is a separate, non-traded class of stock that receives 10 votes for each common stock. This means that the non-traded stock shareholders, including the CEO, can dictate terms at the company far in excess of their financial stake. |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2008 Rich Smith |
Staples Looks Sharp Staples bids for its European rival, Corporate Express, and gets turned down. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Victoria's Not So Secret As expected, fourth-quarter results released this morning were strong. Same-store sales were up a robust 8%, revenue increased 9%, and net income rose 10% over the prior-year period. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2004 Chris Mallon |
A Proxy for Management The proxy statement gives investors an annual glimpse into the minds of management. |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Eliot Cohen |
Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Break the Law, Earn $200K Former corporate crooks are sought after on the lecture circuit, with one, Walter Pavlo, poised to make nearly $200,000 for telling others about his malfeasance. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2004 Steven Mallas |
MGM Waiting for Final Cut MGM has yet to be sold to some deep-pocketed conglomerate. Shareholders won't mind a tug of war for its library. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Feeling Nortel's Pain Before today's open, Nortel announced that its president and CEO had been "terminated for cause." Those are three words you never want to hear because they always mean bad news. But it gets worse. Also terminated with cause were the chief financial officer and controller. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Sports Authority Needs Second Wind Revenues and earnings are lagging despite the merger between the nation's Nos. 1 and 2 sports retailers. |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2003 Jeff Hwang |
Take-Two Tanks on SEC Notice Possible civil charges and an earnings warning overshadow a strong fourth quarter. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2004 Seth Jayson |
CarMax Inches Forward CarMax turns out solid numbers, but are its shares worth the going price? |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Disney's Miramax Morass Disney's latest earnings report may have indeed been refreshing, but it still needs to diligently mine all the gold that the Hollywood Hills have to offer in as efficient a manner as possible. Uncertainty like this is never productive. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
What My CEO Told Me Are companies reporting the whole truth, or do they tend to only report the positive? Shareholders need to demand rolled sleeves and consistent reporting. |
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Gene G. Marcial |
As Offices Stock Up, Staples Is Clicking Along Staples, king of office supplies, is the retail stock to own. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Rich Smith |
American Standard Still Clogged American Standard reported strong results, but debt remains a factor. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2004 Ben McClure |
AT&T's Kindest Cut A big dividend cut at Ma Bell is long overdue. Without it, shareholders could be headed for even more trouble. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Bill Mann |
Sickly Sweet Stock Split Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory splits a $13 stock "to increase shareholder value." But in this case, splitting the stock does nothing of the sort. |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2004 Tim Beyers |
PeopleSoft's People Speak Up Shareholders deliver a wake-up call in voting for expensing options. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Staples Goes to China? The company impresses Wall Street with strong earnings, an optimistic outlook, and a toehold abroad. |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2004 Jeff Hwang |
Eon Labs' Potent Potential The generic drug maker's fourth-quarter estimates spiked higher. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Brookstone Booms Record sales and earnings boost the luxury gadget maker. |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 D. Gardner & T. Gardner |
Time for Eisner to Go? David and Tom Gardner talk about the Disney CEO's dismal doings. |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Grover & Lowry |
Now It's Time To Say Goodbye How Disney's board can move beyond the Eisner era |
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Paul Shread |
Microsoft To Spend Its Billions Microsoft surprised investors after the close on Tuesday with a $3 a share one-time dividend and a $30 billion stock buyback plan. |