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Lots and lots of reading material at Dell…

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

So you think your week was hectic? Dell Computer (DELL) has you beat. This week the company filed – count ‘em – five 10-Qs (here and here and here and here and here), a proxy statement and last year’s 10-K. As explained in this press release, the filings contain restated financial information stretching all the [...]

Life is so unfair, says Rambus!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Back at you, SEC bureaucrats. That’s more or less what Rambus Inc. (RMBS) said in two 10-Qs filed Wednesday. In both filings (first quarter and first 6 months), the company chose to list as a risk factor the “uncertainty” created by changing standards of corporate governance and disclosure. In particular, it griped that many “new [...]

A dab (of disclosure) will do you…

Friday, July 13th, 2007

In January 2006, I footnoted about how it seemed odd that Engineered Systems (old ticker: EASI) was disclosing a formal SEC investigation over a year after the fact and that the investigation seemed to (though it was never spelled out in the filing) focus on the company’s former Chairman and CEO, Michael Shanahan Sr., who [...]

What’s the hidden meaning?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Late yesterday, Brocade Communications (BRCD) filed this preliminary proxy which included some interesting footnotes buried deep in the summary comp table. But first, some back-story: Brocade was the first company to be targeted in the options back-dating scandal and according to this Bloomberg story two weeks ago, is still waiting to see if the SEC [...]

Two gold stars!

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Most weeks, it’s hard enough to find one company that’s worthy of a rare footnoted.org gold star. Indeed, after 3 1/2 years of blogging, we’ve only handed out 30 gold stars. But this week, we’re handing out two. To be fair, this 8-K filed by E*Trade Financial (ETFC) was filed late last Friday, so technically [...]