[So is the individual disregarded?] They're not ignored, ... but they may not get the priority a shareholder who has a million shares will. |
[The metrics used by many high-tech analysts today] are not what analysts normally look at, ... there's so many metrics that we're dealing with in this era that differ from creating light bulbs or auto parts or something that's very tangible. |
Analysts ask more penetrating questions. From a practical standpoint, most of the questions of individual investors can be answered on [a company's] web sites. |
I'd see him in the hallways, talk to him, ... Always had a smile on his face and just an outstanding young person and I just really hate it. |
It sure gave us a big scare. |
The thing the SEC has to be concerned about is if it's fraud --they can't tell analysts how to run their models, |
The thing the SEC has to be concerned about is if it's fraud --they can't tell analysts how to run their models. |
There will also be more information about companies in the public domain, ... But the quality of that information may not be the same as before, simply because companies will be more cautious about what they say to both the buy and sell side. |
We are fishermen. It's going to be hard to do something else. We don't have much to live on. We take care of one another. We're survivors. |
We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced, |