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The mystery in Forestar’s annual report…

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

A lot of us like a good mystery, but most of us probably prefer the ones in a book to those in an SEC filing.
When we looked at the 10-K that Forestar Group Inc. (FOR) filed yesterday, we noticed an interesting example that illustrates an important point:  Shareholders need transparency and full disclosure in SEC [...]

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Vision not Clouded by Greenhouse Gases…

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Although the relentless winter weather may seem like more of a concern right now than greenhouse gases (GHG), a lot of companies have been mentioning them lately in their SEC filings.
Last month, the SEC issued some guidance on this topic. Still, there’s no formal rules as of yet. But with 10Ks flowing fast and furious, [...]

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 [...]

Traveling the Economic Landscape with Winnebago

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

In the wake of 2007’s credit freeze and 2008’s $4.00+ per gallon gasoline prices, we thought that Winnebago’s (WGO) filings yesterday (an annual report here and a proxy here) might be interesting.
Winnebago, which manufactures the iconic “mobile dwellings” that lumber along America’s interstates, has indeed taken a financial hit.  Yet the filings also contained some optimistic news [...]

Fast food goes new media…

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Until this week, it seemed fairly safe to suppose that an impenetrable divide existed between the world of SEC filings and the technophiles who have already downloaded MashDeck. And then we read the exhibit to this 8-K, which included one of the first references we’ve seen in SEC filings to the the popular social media [...]