Using Investor Relations to Maximize Equity Valuation
Published on 16. February 2005
256 pages
978-0-471-70852-0 (ISBN)
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A practical guide to proactive investor relations (IR)
Investor relations (IR) has traditionally been an administrativefunction within corporate communications, responsible fordisseminating public information and answering investor and mediaquestions. Using Investor Relations to Maximize Equity Valuationchallenges this approach, by arguing that IR has been underutilizedand then illustrating how it should be elevated to lead a strategiccommunications effort to preserve or enhance corporate value andlower a company's cost of capital. Divided into four comprehensiveparts, this book clearly describes capital markets strategies andtactical operations that these former, senior-level equity analystsand portfolio managers employ.
Chad A. Jacobs (Westport, CT) and Thomas M. Ryan (Westport, CT) arethe cofounders and co-CEOs of Integrated Corporate Relations.
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THOMAS M. RYAN is the cofounder and co-CEO of Integrated CorporateRelations. Tom was a managing director in the equity researchdepartment of BT Alex. Brown. He has participated as lead orco-manager on at least $5 billion worth of investment bankingtransactions, including bank financing, high-yield debt, equity,and M&A transactions. Tom has often been quoted in the New YorkTimes, the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily,International Herald Tribune, and the Wall Street Transcript. Hehas been a featured expert on CNNfn, CNBC, Money Talk (PBS), WNYCTV, and Bloomberg Television.
CHAD A. JACOBS is the cofounder and co-CEO of IntegratedCorporate Relations. Before cofounding ICR, Chad was a vicepresident and managing director in the equity research departmentsof BT Alex. Brown and, before that, Ladenburg Thalmann. Chad hasbeen the focus of stories in USA Today, POV, the Wall StreetJournal, Investor's Business Daily, Women's Wear Daily, Daily NewsRecord, Footwear News, Transworld Snowboarding, and Action SportsRetailer. He also served as a roundtable member on CNNfn and as afeatured guest on ESPN2.
Content
PREFACE A Brave New World of Investor Relations ix
INTRODUCTION A New Approach and Why It's Important xiii
PART ONE Capital Markets and Their Players: A Brief Primer 1
CHAPTER 1 The Capital Markets and IR 3
CHAPTER 2 The Sell-Side Disclosed: Who They Are and What They Do 13
CHAPTER 3 The Buy-Side: Institutional and Retail Investors 21
CHAPTER 4 Employees, Suppliers, Customers 25
CHAPTER 5 The Media 29
PART TWO Post-Bubble Communications: Events in the Markets and the New World of IR 33
CHAPTER 6 Greed Is Good, '90s Style 35
CHAPTER 7 Of Rules and Regulations 39
CHAPTER 8 Post-Bubble Reality 45
CHAPTER 9 Of Reason, Renewal, and Honesty 51
PART THREE Investor Relations--The Fundamentals: Traditional IR and the Need for Change 59
CHAPTER 10 Traditional IR: What It Is, and Why It's Not Enough 61
CHAPTER 11 Staffing and Sourcing the New IR 73
CHAPTER 12 Grasping the IR Evolution 79
PART FOUR Investor Relations--Maximizing Equity Value
CHAPTER 13 Positioning IR to Succeed 87
PART FIVE Definition 99
CHAPTER 14 The IR Audit 101
CHAPTER 15 Excavating Value Post-Audit 113
PART SIX Delivery 121
CHAPTER 16 To Guide or Not to Guide: That Is the Question 123
CHAPTER 17 Targeting the Audience 137
CHAPTER 18 Integrating with PR 147
CHAPTER 19 Infrastructure/Disclosure Check 157
CHAPTER 20 Delivering the Goods 161
PART SEVEN Dialogue 191
CHAPTER 21 From Delivery to Dialogue 193
CHAPTER 22 Maintaining and Building Relationships 197
CHAPTER 23 Meeting The Street 205
CHAPTER 24 Event Management 213
CHAPTER 25 The Banker Mentality 233
CONCLUSION A Call for Change 245
APPENDIX A Two Press Releases 249
APPENDIX B The Conference Call Script 255
APPENDIX C Velocity Inc. 2004 Investor Relations Plan 261
INDEX 267
