Reporting Archive

By mid-May 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to sweep the globe, 70 percent of S&P 500 companies had revised or withdrawn their earnings guidance, according to research from Gartner. Since then, however, we have learned to live – to some degree – with the new normal and, for some companies at least, the time has come to reinstate guidance. At Irish housebuilder Glenveagh, that time came in September, when it published its interim results under the hea...

  Sponsored content The global impact of Covid-19 has touched all aspects of doing business. Across different regions and industries, we are seeing varying reactions and resilience and it is crucial to be able to report back to investors on these changes. The virus does not discriminate, and yet it...

MOL's Mikkel Skougaard likes to joke that the only people who used to read the sustainability report from cover to cover were him and the auditor. Now, though, anyone who has 15 minutes to spare can find out everything they need to know about the Hungarian oil and gas firm’s sustainability credentials. Last year the Budapest-headquartered company took a risk, bucking the trend for increasingly lengthy sustainability reports to produce a 10-page, 15-minute read for...

Public healthcare companies often question the best course of action during quiet periods – those stretches of time during which they should limit their interaction with Wall Street due to their knowledge of material and timely information that has not yet been publicly disclosed.  Specifically, management teams struggle to figure out what the quiet period means for their investor relations efforts. Should they bring to a halt all communications with the investme...