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Now that Dell (company and founder alike) has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission, no doubt investors and management will forge ahead. But we want to take one moment to look back — not to the sordid accounting gimmicks and misleading disclosure laid out in the SEC’s case, but rather to Dell’s disclosures about [...]
There’s been a lot of talk in Washington and elsewhere lately about investor protections, although, understandably, it has mostly been secondary to proposals intended to safeguard the economy and the markets as a whole. Two of the investor-protection proposals most commonly raised would give ordinary shareholders more of a voice: proxy access measures that would [...]
Of all this blog’s frequent fliers, Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has won a special place of late here at footnoted: The company may have paid its CEO $12.1 million for his antique map collection, winning it the dubious distinction of worst footnote of 2009, but Chesapeake keeps giving investors more to ponder — and its shareholders [...]
Recently, M&A rumors have again begun circulating around TiVo (TIVO). When similar rumors were swirling in early April, we warned our FootnotedPro subscribers that signals in the company’s filings didn’t really mesh with the idea of an imminent deal. Since then, TiVo shares have dropped more than 50%, badly trailing the NASDAQ. What did we see [...]
If Charles Dickens were writing about the proxy that Dell, Inc. (DELL) filed yesterday, he might have reworked his classic opening paragraph to read, “It was the best of proxies, it was the worst of proxies, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” (we’ll spare you the rest so that [...]
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