Archive for the '10Qs' Tag

You may remember back in March, shortly after the health care reform legislation was passed, that a small company called AT&T (T) made a big splash by announcing plans to take a $1 billion charge to cover the cost of the new regulations. Soon after, several other companies followed suit. The basic reasoning for the [...]

Just over two years ago, in May, 2008, Knight Capital Group, Inc. (KCG) acquired Libertas Holdings, LLC, described in this 8-K as “a leading boutique institutional fixed income brokerage firm.” In addition to acquiring a firm, Knight brought in Libertas’ founder and CEO, Gary Katcher, as a new member of its management team. At the [...]

One benefit from reading SEC filings is that they allow us to distill some of the details about matters that have previously only been reported in a general way. A good example comes from the 10-Q that Kraft Foods, Inc. (KFT) filed August 6. In early June, a story broke that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office [...]

The slow season for filings is a mixed blessing: It lets us spend a little more time with the filings that do come in. But at the same time, there’s less in the way of clear-cut, compelling material for FootnotedPro, our subscription service for professional investors. So we took the opportunity to go back and [...]