May 14, 2012—It's probably best not to think too hard about how things work at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) without plenty of coffee. Even then, good luck making sense of it all. The most obvious question, of course, is why a ...

May 11, 2012—We were going to write about something else this morning, but then Chesapeake Energy (CHK), which as footnoted regulars know is something of a frequent flyer here, decided to file its proxy statement, so we quickly changed plans. While the ...

April 30, 2012—It wouldn't surprise us if the people holding the strongest opinions about Masimo Corporation (MASI) - a medical technology company with a $1.3 billion market cap based in Irvine, California - fall into one of two camps. Those who ...

April 25, 2012—The energy drink business is a big one, and for the top executives at the Monster Beverage Corp. (MNST), that led to some monster-sized rewards last year, according to the proxy filed yesterday. Specifically, Rodney Sacks, Monster's Chairman, CEO, ...

April 24, 2012—Some footnoted frequent fliers are gifts that keep on giving, and probably none more so than Chesapeake Energy (CHK). Chesapeake and its chief executive, Aubrey K. McClendon, won our 2009 Footnote of the Year contest (no great honor, trust us) ...

April 19, 2012—We took Aon (AON) to task in a recent post for splashing out a bunch of money to move its top brass to the U.K. after relocating the company's headquarters. Now, eagle-eyed footnoted researcher Bhattiprolu Murti has spotted ...

April 17, 2012—We'll just cut to the chase: This is a post about a company that saw fit to pay its chairman more than a half-million dollars last year to use his Montana cattle ranch -- including, presumably, its golf course, "handsome, well-appointed lodge," ...

April 16, 2012—Biting into the proxy that Dole, Inc. (DOLE) filed April 13 was a little like eating a fruit salad with just a few ingredients that got a little repetitive. "Oh, great - another bite of cantaloupe...." Except in ...

April 11, 2012—As The Gap's (GPS) shareholders reflect on how to cast their votes between now and the May 15 annual meeting, they've got a doozy of a proposal to sort out that one of our eagle-eyed researchers, B.B. Murti, ...

April 10, 2012—Deepak Chopra is probably best known for his emphasis on mind and spirit in health -- whether he's a wise influence in holistic medicine or a fuzzy-thinking New Age marketer is a matter of interpretation, but there's no doubt that ...