Did You Know...

...that according to the buy-side, investor relations can have as much as a 35% impact on a company’s valuation? In our most recent study of the buy-side, we uncovered that portfolio managers and buy-side analysts attribute a premium of 10% of a company’s valuation to good investor communications and a discount of 25% to bad investor communications.

Market Cap
Mega (over $25 billion) | Large ($5 billion to $25 billion) | Mid ( $1 billion to $5 billion) | Small ($150 million to $1 billion) | Micro

MEGA - over $25 billion in market cap
 
3M
ADP
Altria
Amgen
AT&T
AXA Financial
Bank of America
BG Group
Boeing
BP
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chevron
Cisco Systems
Comcast
ConocoPhillips
Dell
Dow Chemical
DuPont
eBay
Exelon
FedEx
Freddie Mac
Genentech
Gilead Sciences
Goldcorp
Home Depot
Intel
Lam Research
MasterCard
McDonald's
Medtronic
Merck
MetLife
PepsiCo
Raytheon
Sanofi-Aventis
The Walt Disney Company
United Technologies
VALE
Verizon
Wal-Mart
Yahoo!
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LARGE - $5 billion to $25 billion in market cap
 
Air Products and Chemicals
Alcon
American Electric Power
Avery Dennison
Brasil Telecom
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Cameco
Campbell Soup
Canadian Pacific Railway
Capital One Financial
Cardinal Health
CB Richard Ellis
CIT
Coach
Cognizant Technologies
Covidien
Dominion Resources
Edison International
Entergy
Forest Labs
FPL Group
Genzyme
Harley-Davidson
Heinz
International Paper
Kellogg
LabCorp
Limited Brands
McKesson
MeadWestvaco
Medco Health Solutions
MedImmune
Moody's Corporation
Nationwide Financial
Nordstrom
Northrop Grumman
NYSE Euronext
PG&E
Progress Energy
ProLogis
Public Service Enterprise (PSEG)
Quest Diagnostics
Qwest Communications
Reynolds American
Sempra Energy
SK Telecom
Southern Company
Spectra Energy
Starwood Hotels
St. Jude Medical
Sun Life Financial
Transocean
Waste Management
Weyerhaeuser
Xcel Energy
Yum! Brands
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MID - $1 billion to $5 billion in market cap
 
Actelion
Agnico-Eagle
Airgas
ALLETE
Alliant Energy
AmeriCredit
AMERIGROUP
Ann Taylor
Arrow Electronics
Avis Budget
Biovail
Braskem
The Brink's Company
Brocade Communications
Bunge
Canadian Tire
CenterPoint Energy
DelMonte
Diebold
Eastman Chemical
Endurance Specialty
Fairchild Semiconductor
Foster Wheeler
FMC
Gen-Probe
Gold Fields
Harman International
Hexcel
HTC Corporation
IHS
Imation
Invitrogen
Lam Research
Mead Johnson
Millipore
National Financial Partners
Parametric Technology (PTC)
Pentair
PMI Group
Pride International
Radian Group
RRI Energy
Rent-A-Center
Rockwell Collins
Ross Stores
SCANA
Scotts Miracle-Gro
Telephone & Data Systems
Terex
Thoratec
Tim Hortons
United Stationers
UNUM
Whirlpool
Wyndham Worldwide
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SMALL - $150 million to $1 billion in market cap
 
Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Align Technologies
Analogic
Arena Pharmaceuticals
ArQule
BGC Partners
First Uranium
j2 Global
Macquarie Infrastructure Company
Netflix
RealNetworks
TriQuint Semiconductor
Selective Insurance
Websense
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MICRO
 
Aastrom Biosciences
Entropic
Inspire Pharmaceuticals
Tween Brands
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