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Armstrong World Industries rearranges the gym…

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Instead of nibbling on chocolates or checking out the President’s Day sales last weekend, the footnoted staff settled in at our computers with a nice long list of SEC filings.
While the second pot of coffee brewed, we found this 8-K that Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (AWI) filed at 4:39 p.m. last Friday.  Armstrong, which is based [...]

Shareholders, watch your language…

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

If you read enough SEC filings, you begin to recognize certain sections like they’re old friends.  You might think, “Oh!  There’s the section on Executive Compensation Discussion & Analysis!” or “Hi, Forward-Looking Statements.  How are the Risk Factors looking today?”
But occasionally – perhaps rarely – something pops out that you’ve never noticed before.
Such was the [...]

HP CFO takes cheap-o private jet flight

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

When Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) filed its preliminary proxy on Tuesday, we were immediately surprised by one of the numbers in the footnotes to the summary compensation table: the $96 spent by CFO Catherine Lesjak on personal use of the corporate jet.
Now being all entrepreneurial and all, we don’t spend any time flying around in corporate jets [...]

Groucho Marx in the filings…

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Is summer giving all the folks who normally slave to make SEC filings as boring as possible an opportunity to loosen up? The evidence may be anecdotal, but it’s growing. Exhibit A was this dead frogs disclosure from two weeks ago. Now, via fund of funds Ascendant Capital Partners, which filed this offering statement [...]

On dead frogs in SEC filings…

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

In nearly six years of digging through SEC filings, we’ve seen a lot. All sorts of things, really. But every now and then, we come across a filing that still surprises us. Like the 8-K that Expeditors International (EXPD) filed yesterday. The filing is in response to a question on legal expenses related to a [...]