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How to Wreck Your Company's Valuation

Avoid reconciling GAAP and non-GAAP reporting, providing metrics used in business modeling, or breaking out the results of acquired companies, and that will do the trick, a top analyst says.

November 17, 2009

If your company has not stopped or reduced earnings guidance during the recession, as quite a few have done, you may at least have thought about it. And chances are that if you opted not to withdraw guidance, one reason was concern that the company would look like it was hiding something, with a resulting hit to its stock price. Read more...

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