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Public company management teams would do well to allocate more time on earnings calls covering strategy & execution, sources of competitive differentiation and "why we win deals". Conversely, allocate less time reviewing quarterly minutiae that could be addressed within the prepared remarks and an accompanying slide presentation. Quarterly earnings calls are an opportunity for management … Continue reading Public Company Earnings Call Survival Kit
We have updated our CEO Compensation & Pay Disclosure data to reflect Friday's 14A filings. Further, we have segmented our data (ACCESS CEORater's Segmented Data Tables HERE). Page ONE is a summary page, followed by FINTECH companies, LARGE CAP, MID CAP and SMALL CAP companies. Last, we include the Full Universe.
We pulled a list of the top CEOs from our CEORater platform as measured by our "CRScore". The CRScore is a crowdsourced score based upon user reviews at CEORater.com. CEOs are scored on a scale of 0-100, 100 being the best. Users "review" CEOs by posting comments, allocating a Thumbs Up or Down, and by … Continue reading CEORater’s Top CEOs
CEO tenure is getting shorter and we believe a primary cause is less than optimal alignment between CEOs, Executive Team members and Corporate Boards. Alignment Scale Exercise On a scale of 1-10 (10 is best) where would you rate the level of alignment between yourself and your direct reports? Between yourself and your Board of Directors?You may … Continue reading CEO – Executive Team – Board (“CEB”) AlignmentPremium
Could we have predicted that Elon Musk's restlessness would have led to his founding of (SpaceX) even though he more than had his hands full with Tesla? How about his latest company - "The Boring Company" - could its founding have been predicted? The answer is "maybe". Are we surprised by Musk's emotionless approach to … Continue reading Predicting CEO Actions and Financial Outcomes Based On CEO PersonalityPremium
Investors Allocate Premium Valuations to That Which They Understand My theory is that institutional investors implicitly penalize complexity. I base my theory largely on 23 years of capital markets experience and intuition and admittedly have little data to support it. I believe that investors will invest a dollar in Company A assuming that "A" has … Continue reading Don’t Give Investors A Reason to Say “No”
Many of our readers are Technology CEOs and institutional investors. If you wish to tell your company's story, or a portfolio company story let us know. Beginning in 2019 we plan to occasionally profile Technology companies in these pages and on our CEORater Podcast. Send me a note directly at jmaietta@ceorater.com. Thanks for reading! … Continue reading Share Your Story with Us
Our full analysis comparing the personality traits of Mary Barra vs. Elon Musk may be found HERE. Reach us at info@ceorater.com to inquire about our CEO Personality Analytics service. If you wish to run a query on a particular CEO, send us an email at the above address and be sure to include CEO name … Continue reading GM’s Mary Barra vs. Tesla’s Elon Musk – A CEO Personality Comparison
Elon Musk's behavior over the past several months is simply Elon being Elon. It's baked into his personality.
The CEORater Technology Founder CEO Index returned 7.3% and 7.4% on a Weighted and Unweighted Stock Price Return basis respectively (click here for detail) during the January 2nd 2018 – October 26th 2018 period. The S&P 500 Information Technology (TKR: S5INFT) returned 6.6% on a Weighted basis over the same period. The Powershares S&P 500® Equal Weight Technology ETF (TKR: RYT) returned 2.2% on an Unweighted … Continue reading CEORater Technology Founder CEO Index Outperforms in a Turbulent Market
