News about <![CDATA[shareholders]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[Men's Wearhouse Ousts Founder George Zimmer]]> DailyFinance.com: Ben Margot/APGeorge Zimmer (second from left), founder and executive chairman of Men's Wearhouse, is shown in this 1999 photo. The company said Wednesday that Zimmer had been fired. By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO NEW YORK -- Men's Wearhouse has dismissed its ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Sprint Sues Dish Seeking to Block Clearwire Buyout]]> DailyFinance.com: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Jonathan Stempel and Sruthi Ramakrishnan Sprint said it has sued Dish Network to block its tender offer for Clearwire, on the eve of a key deadline in a takeover battle that also includes Japanese mobile carrier ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Bankrupt W.R. Grace is Thriving and Here's Why]]> DailyFinance.com: Calin Tatu/AP By Ernest Scheyder and Nick Brown COLUMBIA, Md. and NEW YORK -- A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co. ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Angry Investors Vent at Facebook's First Shareholders Meeting]]> DailyFinance.com: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg By Sreeja VN CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced a series of angry comments Tuesday at Facebook's first shareholders meeting, as investors lined up to question the social-networking site's dismal ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[SoftBank Sweetens Offer for Sprint Nextel]]> DailyFinance.com: Yoshikazu Tsuno, AFP/Getty ImagesSoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son By Charles Riley HONG KONG -- Japan-based SoftBank increased its offer for wireless carrier Sprint on Tuesday, offering $21.6 billion to help counter an unsolicited bid from Dish ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[At Walmart's Shareholders' Meeting: Celebrities, Spin and Dissent]]> DailyFinance.com: AP, Gareth PattersonWalmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon. Inside Walmart's (WMT) annual shareholders' meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., there's plenty of star power and entertainment. Actor Hugh Jackman is serving as master of ceremonies. Entertainment for the ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Market Minute: Walmart Execs' Pay Goes Up for Vote; Avandia Might Make a Comeback]]> DailyFinance.com: Walmart's executive pay is up for a vote, and a controversial diabetes drug may make a comeback. Those and more are what's in business news Friday. The Dow industrials (^DJI) turned a 100 point loss into an 80 point gain yesterday. The S&P 500 ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Sprint says Dish’s offer for Clearwire is illegal]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Clearwire again puts off Sprint takeover vote]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Dish raises bid for Clearwire as Sprint buyout comes down to the wire]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Violent video games, robots and Seattle campus: Bezos addresses Amazon shareholders]]> <![CDATA[Proxy Advisory Firm Fined $300,000 for Data Breach]]> DailyFinance.com: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON -- Institutional Shareholder Services settled civil charges by U.S. regulators that an employee of the prominent proxy advisory firm shared nonpublic voting data in exchange for meals and ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[BD Issues 2012 Sustainability Report]]> <![CDATA[Sprint ups its bid for Clearwire at the eleventh hour]]>
    


]]> <![CDATA[JPMorgan Investors on Edge Over Vote on Dimon]]> DailyFinance.com: J. Scott Applewhite/APJPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. By David Henry TAMPA, Fla. -- As final ballots come in on a proposal to strip JPMorgan Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon of his chairman title, some worry about what ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Protesters to skip Amazon shareholders meeting, target Alaska Airlines]]> <![CDATA[Dimon May Leave JPMorgan If Stripped of Chairmanship]]> DailyFinance.com: J. Scott Applewhite/APJPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said he may consider leaving the bank where he has held the top post since 2005, if shareholders vote to split his duties, The Wall ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway's Future Weighs on Investors' Minds]]> DailyFinance.com: ChinaFotoPress/Getty ImagesBerkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charles Thomas Munger, left, and CEO Warren E. Buffett attend a conference in Beijing in 2010. This weekend, somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 capitalists will make what has become ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[GM Boosts CEO Pay 44%; Gov't Still Owns 16.4% Stake]]> DailyFinance.com: Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesGeneral Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson. By TOM KRISHER DETROIT -- General Motors boosted Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson's pay package by 44 percent last year, as the value of his stock awards significantly increased due ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Google Pays Founders $1; Four Other Execs Get $124M]]> DailyFinance.com: Michael Nagle/Getty ImagesGoogle founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page speak at a 2008 press conference in New York. By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO -- Google CEO Larry Page and his longtime partner Sergey Brin limited their salaries to $1 ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Enter T-Metro: MetroPCS shareholders approve T-Mobile merger]]>
    


]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Cash: When Giving is Good Business]]> <![CDATA[Few Steps Remain in American Airlines, US Airways Merger]]> DailyFinance.com: Matt Rourke/AP By DAVID KOENIG DALLAS -- US Airways began studying a potential merger with American Airlines several months before American filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2011, according to papers filed Monday by the two companies. The ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[DT gets nervous over T-Mobile-MetroPCS vote; tweaks the deal’s terms]]>
    


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]]> <![CDATA[What Your Company Cares About Fascinates Its Largest Shareholders]]> <![CDATA[Shared Value Insights from UBS' Erika Karp]]> <![CDATA[Schiff Nutrition Delivers Record Shareholder Returns; Quest Diagnostics Introduces New Electronic Health Record Solution - Health Minute for November 2, 2012]]> <![CDATA[Fairness For Shareholders Who Bust Their Butts]]> Editor’s note: Ronen Shilo is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Conduit, a provider of cloud-based solutions that empower web and mobile publishers to engage their users across multiple platforms. Follow him on his Conduit blog and on Twitter. Every day I thank the universe for my inexperience. Why do I say that? Because one of the distinct advantages of not focusing one’s energies on becoming CEO of a big company – big, at least, by Israeli standards – is that you aren’t a prisoner of expectations. Or convention.]]> <![CDATA[AIG Stock Sale Doesn't Justify Bailout Package]]> AIG), with an $18 billion stock sale that made money for taxpayers.

The AIG stock sale will reduce the government's stake in the insurance company to about 22% from 53%.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced Sunday it was selling a large chunk of shares in the bailed-out insurer. The government saved AIG in 2008 and 2009 with a bailout package that totaled around $182 billion.

Including Monday's sale and money from AIG, the Treasury claims it has recovered a total of $197.4 billion from AIG - a $15 billion profit for taxpayers.

It's not surprising the government is selling AIG shares. What is unexpected is that such a large chunk of AIG stock will be released into the market at once, instead of spaced out over time.

One reason to shed the stock faster than planned is to credit U.S. President Barack Obama with taxpayer profit ahead of a tight race for the White House.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday, "We have been committed to exiting those investments as quickly as practicable. What it does demonstrate is an ongoing commitment to recover taxpayer money. It's safe to say the president is pleased with the progress being made as we wind down these investments."

But even with a multi-billion dollar profit, defending private-sector bailouts is an impossible sell to most voters.

Click here to continue reading...]]> <![CDATA[AIG Stock Sale Doesn’t Justify Bailout Package]]> AIG), with an $18 billion stock sale that made money for taxpayers.

The AIG stock sale will reduce the government's stake in the insurance company to about 22% from 53%.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced Sunday it was selling a large chunk of shares in the bailed-out insurer. The government saved AIG in 2008 and 2009 with a bailout package that totaled around $182 billion.

Including Monday's sale and money from AIG, the Treasury claims it has recovered a total of $197.4 billion from AIG - a $15 billion profit for taxpayers.

It's not surprising the government is selling AIG shares. What is unexpected is that such a large chunk of AIG stock will be released into the market at once, instead of spaced out over time.

One reason to shed the stock faster than planned is to credit U.S. President Barack Obama with taxpayer profit ahead of a tight race for the White House.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday, "We have been committed to exiting those investments as quickly as practicable. What it does demonstrate is an ongoing commitment to recover taxpayer money. It's safe to say the president is pleased with the progress being made as we wind down these investments."

But even with a multi-billion dollar profit, defending private-sector bailouts is an impossible sell to most voters.

Click here to continue reading...]]> <![CDATA[Four Debt-Free Companies to Own if the Markets Tank–and Even if They Don't]]>
The problem is it's just not true. Companies that carry little or no debt are kicking butt and will continue to do so even if the markets stumble.

Not only are most of them tacking on solid numbers in very volatile markets, but over time these debt-free companies are proving themselves to be stable and reliable performers.

Take last year for example. The S&P 500 returned 2%. Yet, the top 15 firms as measured by the highest amount of cash and short-term investments as a percentage of total assets returned an average of 15% according to CNBC analyst Giovanny Moreano.

That's 650% more than their debt-laden brethren over the same time frame.

So far this year, my favorite debt-free companies have tacked on average gains of 19.82% versus the S&P 500, which was up 9% as of July 3. That's a 120% advantage over the same time period.

Going further back these same companies have done even better.

In fact, my favorite debt-free choices have returned an average of 349.16% versus a loss of -3% for the S&P 500 as a whole since the top of 2007 when the financial crisis broke.

Over the past decade that number jumps to over 2,061%. And, I'll bet you dimes to Bernanke dollars that these same debt-free companies will pull ahead further in the years to come.

To continue reading, please click here... ]]> <![CDATA[Stock Splits Suddenly Getting Cold Shoulder From Wall Street]]>
Back in 1997, 102 companies in the S&P 500 did a stock split. Last year there were just 16 down from an average of 35 a year from 2004-2007.

This year there have been just four as of May with four more expected by the end of July.

So why has Wall Street turned a cold shoulder to stock splits?

It may be because strictly speaking, shareholders gain nothing from a stock split.

When a stock splits at 2-1, for instance, it simply doubles the number of shares while cutting the price in half.

So an investor who holds 50 shares of Company X at $100 a share ends up with 100 shares at $50.

Still, many investors see stock splits as a sign a company is doing well.

In addition, the more affordable price often helps attract more retail investors, and the increase in shares improves liquidity, making the stock easier to trade.

Historically, companies would consider a stock split whenever its stock price climbed over a certain level, such as $100 a share. But attitudes have changed.

"Nobody is scared of a $100 stock or a Google or Apple at $600," Howard Silverblatt, senior analyst art S&P, told MSN Money.

But what changed Wall Street's mind?

One explanation is that many corporate executives today see a lofty stock price as a status symbol, particularly the younger CEOs of tech companies. And some company heads point to the questionable benefits of a stock split.

"Splitting is nothing more than window dressing," Chris Arnold, a spokesman for Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), told Bloomberg Businessweek. Chipotle has never split its stock, which trades at about $400 share.

But some analysts think sentiment against stock splits started with the collapse of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and deepened with the 2008 financial meltdown.

"There's a reluctance to split a stock after such a decline is still fresh in the collective memory of management," Doug Ramsey, the Minneapolis-based director of research at Leuthold Group LLC, explained to Bloomberg. "A stock split is just an accounting mechanism, but the psychology behind it is, you're not going to do it unless you're confident you're going to trade at an elevated level."

The Consequences of Fewer Stock Splits

Given the mostly cosmetic nature of stock splits, you might think having fewer of them wouldn't matter. But the lack of stock splits has had several consequences.

To continue reading, please click here...]]> <![CDATA[Bank of America Accused of Hiding Bad News on Merrill Before Buyout]]> DailyFinance.com: By Jonathan Stempel Top executives at Bank of America (BAC) did not tell shareholders just prior to a 2008 vote on its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co that losses were mounting and expected to weigh down earnings for years, papers filed in private ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Shareholders sue Facebook, banks over botched IPO]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Shareholders sue Facebook, banks over botched IPO]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Apponomics – The World of Mobile Apps (INFOGRAPHIC)]]>

Social networking giant, Facebook IPO has so far generated lower-than-expected demand but CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is telling investors that mobile is front and center in his company’s plans. New mobile apps available in market are creating a fundamental shift in the way people experience and use...

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]]> <![CDATA[Even if carriers don’t like net neutrality, their investors should]]> ]]> <![CDATA[AOL Sells 800 Patents to Microsoft for $1.06 Billion]]> DailyFinance.com: NEW YORK -- AOL said Monday that it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and their related applications to Microsoft and grant it a license for its remaining patents for a total about $1.06 billion in cash. New York-based AOL (AOL) said it plans to ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[How You Can Get Warren Buffett-Style Shareholder Perks]]> DailyFinance.com: Most of us have 401(k) plans invested in a limited slate of predefined mutual funds. But for those of us willing to take the extra steps of opening a brokerage account and investing in stocks, there's more to be had than just the promise of better ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Is Apple ready to issue a dividend?]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Will Yang's Yahoo Departure Appease Angry Investors?]]> DailyFinance.com: Yahoo's (YHOO) embattled co-founder Jerry Yang is gone from the board, but for Third Point LLC, that's not good enough. The disgruntled Yahoo investor is aiming to take down company Chairman Roy Bostock and potentially three other directors. From ... Read more]]> <![CDATA[Why Morgan Stanley setting better results than Goldman Sachs?]]> <![CDATA[Good Morning Silicon Valley: Board says Yahoo for Carol Bartz]]> <![CDATA[INVESTING IN CHINA IS LIKE SNOWBOARDING AN AVALANCHE CHUTE]]> <![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Rewind]]> <![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Rewind]]> <![CDATA[Tax Day Tips for MLP Investors]]> While I’m hardly an expert on taxes, I do insist on doing my own return every year. And since I specialize in income investments, I also field tons of tax-related questions on dividend stocks and other investments.

Perhaps no area of the income world generates more confusion than the special class . . . → Read More: Tax Day Tips for MLP Investors]]> <![CDATA[Capture Dividends up to 50% Higher with This Simple Strategy]]>

Would you be interested in a simple investment strategy that allows you to capture more dividends? Savvy income investors can use a neat little trick that does just that. It's not hard, but it will require a little research. The rewards can be great — you can easily earn yields 50% higher than . . . → Read More: Capture Dividends up to 50% Higher with This Simple Strategy]]> <![CDATA[Are Investors Getting Their Money's Worth from High-Paid CEOs?]]> Are CEOs Worth the High Salaries and Big Bonuses?

CEO bonuses rose 30.5% in the past year, but are the heads of large U.S. firms really earning their hefty compensation packages by creating increased profits and shareholder value? A closer look reveals wide disparities: There are some Bargain CEOs, but also some Hogs and Value Destroyers.

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