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This week The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 400 companies are stuck holding auction-rate securities. Since these securities remain as unmarketable as the recordings of past American Idol Taylor Hicks, some firms (including Google, says the Journal) took partial write-downs in the first quarter.
In skimming some first-quarter disclosures, I sense that companies are [...]
Back in January, I wrote this post about Rite Aid Corporation (RAD), noting that all my neighborhood Rite Aids seemed incapable of consistently stocking mundane items like cleaning supplies and toilet paper. I referred to this phenomenon, rather snidely, as Soviet Economy Syndrome. One of these local stores was, in its former life, a pleasant, well-stocked Eckerd Drugs. I [...]
It’s been another one of those weeks here at footnoted, with so many filings that it’s been hard to pick and choose. So instead of just focusing on one or two, I thought I’d do a bit of “spring cleaning” and talk about some of the things that wound up in the footnoted net this [...]
It’s a snow day here in New York, which gives me plenty of time to plow through the filings, since I’d much rather sit at the computer then shovel. One of my favorite finds was in this filing from CSX (CSX), which disclosed for the first time that 156 of its top executives get 50% [...]
Barack Obama is not the only one thinking about “change” right now. Here at Footnoted we’re also interested in change - namely, the ways that some companies’ 10-Ks have changed from last year’s versions. While these year-to-year comparisons highlight important trends in recent filings, e.g., the increased popularity of terms like “subprime” and “monoline exposure,” [...]
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