April 4, 2012—Avon Products, Inc. (AVP) is struggling on many fronts, which surely factored into Coty Inc.'s unsolicited proposal this week to buy Avon for $10 billion, a bid that the cosmetics giant rejected as undervalued. Even beyond that, though, Avon's ...

April 3, 2012—One of the more curious executive compensation practices to develop over the years is the "dividend equivalent," also sometimes called hypothetical, unvested or deferred dividends, among other terms. These are dividends, or payments in lieu of actual dividends, that are paid on ...

March 29, 2012—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about TRW Automotive Holdings Corporation, are available exclusively to footnoted*Pro subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

March 28, 2012—Many in the business world contend that corporate jets (or a fractional ownership through a company like NetJets) are more efficient and cost-effective than having a busy CEO doff tasseled loafers, navigate security, and then brush elbows with the hoi ...

March 19, 2012—Sometimes you can get eyestrain trying to find the silver lining in a cloudy situation. We're talking about Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) again, which has been in the headlines a lot lately. Besides Theo's post last Thursday ...

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March 15, 2012—The saga of Sears Holdings (SHLD) in its many incarnations over the years is a dramatic one, not least for investors, and we seem to once again be in one of those nail-biting chapters full of comings, goings and at least mild ...

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March 13, 2012—Back in October, when International Business Machines (IBM) announced that Samuel Palmisano would step down as chief executive but remain chairman, we footnoted the enormous exit package he was eligible to collect pretty much any time he wanted. Because ...